Happy Camping: Skipping Down the Path to Enlightenment
Have you ever noticed how advertising agencies claim to know what will make us happy? They know we're worried about our happiness quotient and can easily seduce us.
Have you ever noticed how advertising agencies claim to know what will make us happy? They know we're worried about our happiness quotient and can easily seduce us.
Using dreams for personal insight and career guidance is becoming increasingly popular, with the rise in dream groups and peer-based dream consulting.
As a psychologist, I am starting to see the effects of the recession in my therapy groups.
I'm working on my Happiness Project, and you could have one, too! Everyone's project will look different, but it's the rare person who can't benefit. ...
Across time, the advice is constant: those engaged in the care for others must care for themselves. Indeed, caring for our own souls is how the gent...
For many people, Thanksgiving is a joyous holiday; for many people, Thanksgiving is a dreaded holiday. One factor that can make it tough is spending t...
Some years it was steak, some years it was my grandmother's home cooked meals. I never learned her amazing recipes because I had to not cook to be free. I can cook in my next life.
Some folks have cash in the bank, and prices are going down, and they can take advantage of that. There are people who buy stuff as a matter of status and prestige.
Is Thanksgiving catching you between a rock and a hard place, emotionally? Here are five ways to feel thankful (or thankfuller, if you're already into the T-zone), fast.
The Dalai Lama was giving teachings in Dharamsala, India. It was crowded and cold and very uncomfortable sitting on mats on the concrete floor. Deb wa...
In light of the tremendous challenges facing our country, I am grateful for a government big enough to help us weather the financial storm.
Instead of passing on giving gifts this year, employ some meaningful strategies that will make you and your loved ones happy.
We didn't wind up being a biracial amalgam of cultural identities because of some angelic absence of prejudice, but, rather, because the combination of sexual attraction and a strong sense of curiosity led people to unexpected unions.
Why do we seem to struggle so often to get what we think we want, only to be disappointed once it shows up? My experience suggests that most of us do...
I'm working on my Happiness Project, and you could have one, too! Everyone's project will look different, but it's the rare person who can't benefit. ...
The proclamation which established a national day of Thanksgiving was issued during Lincoln's administration. It is tempting to draw comparisons between then and now.
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My pet peeve word is "like", which I use too often. I hear it more in the conversation of younger people, but often enough in people of my age, to the extent that I believe I'm in a sea of stereotypical "Valley Girls." When I listen to Barack Obama, he rarely uses this word. As do many accomplished orators.
In my Italian family, we often talked over each other, or all at once!
2 years ago I noticed I interrupted people a lot, so I set about to change. It worked.
Her ideas are good, & the process also teaches that we control our brains, not the other way around. That takes your self to great places.
GOOD LUCK TO ALL.
here is just one exercise - use it well [brain]
I try to make predictions of coworkers behavior based on their previous actions and the mood. I'm usually spot on. So I have to find another game to play. So i started reading and posting on this website.
I have to admit that I say, "I mean" quite a lot. It does work well as a simple transition to a clarification, though. Maybe I'll start saying "to wit" instead, that will make me seem smarter, too.
Thanks a lot for this!
"The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds and makes all political and social life a mass illness. Without this housecleaning we cannot begin to see. Unless we can see, we cannot think." Thomas Merton, as quoted in Adbusters.
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