Questions to help you practice gratitude, gain perspective on the past week, and think prospectively about the week ahead. Excellent. I’ve put these in a recurring calendar event every Friday afternoon as a reminder. (Will I do them fully each week? No. But when I can, and really need to, they’ll be there, easy access.) […]
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Like gratitude, practicing kindness can uplift us, connect us more deeply to others, and inspire those around us to engage more kindly in their worlds. Kindness, like putting a smile on your face when you’re feeling dour, can improve your mood. It can help you get unstuck from your rut. Kindness helps you reach out,
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Arthur Allen wrote a fascinating introduction to technology that tells us how we’re feeling. He describes some remarkable situations in which tech can foster our capacity to understand our emotional experiences and learn from them. He also discusses ways in which we can use this technology to learn about the emotional experiences of those around
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Ashley Merryman chimed in again recently in a NYTimes Op-Ed proclaiming “Losing Is Good For You” to continue dispelling the myths of “everyone’s a winner.” She spreads the good word about the power of losing to teach persistence and resilience. “Awards can be powerful motivators, but nonstop recognition does not inspire children to succeed. Instead,
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You might have seen the HuffPost article, The Habits of Supremely Happy People, circulated. You can read it here. So, which of these habits do you have? Here are some of my thoughts: With some intense work over the past few years, I’ve managed to make 20 of these 21 pretty standard parts of my
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Enduring Love Doesn’t Just Happen. You’ll have to work for it to last. So we’re reminded by Jane Brody’s recent post on the NYT Well blog: That Loving Feeling Takes a Lot of Work Studies by Richard E. Lucas and colleagues at Michigan State University have shown that the happiness boost that occurs with marriage
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The Appetite Workout By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS “Their restraint, the researchers said, was due to a concomitant increase in other hormones that initiate satiety. These hormones, only recently discovered and still not well understood, tell the body that it has taken in enough fuel; it can stop eating. The augmented levels of the satiety hormones, the authors write,
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This collection of secrets is sad to read. So many unfulfilled lives and unmet needs. If therapy wasn’t assigned the stigma it now carries, many of these people would benefit much from the experience. Please help tear down the stigma around therapy so those who need it, the seemingly confident and secretly depressed, the seemingly
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