Happiness & Success
Achieving Happiness Through Acceptance of Life
The quest for happiness often leads to frustration, as many fail to realize that the...
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- Written by: Don Joseph Goewey
Your decision to remain calm inside regardless of what’s happening outside makes you larger than circumstances. You’re able to move through misfortune without it dragging you down, dampening your spirit, or blocking your path. Your calm allows you to...
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- Written by: Susan L. Westbrook, PhD.
The danger with anger is not that we have it, but that we may not choose to release it. We feed anger with our doubts and fears. We create stories about the insult and injury we experienced. The resentment becomes a self-righteous retreat...
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- Written by: Debra Landwehr Engle
I’m in a spiritual blackout right now, and it’s not pretty. Typically, I feel like I have an open line of conversation with spiritual guidance, and then the spiritual blackout comes along. Wham! Someone shuts a trapdoor overhead...
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- Written by: Briana Borten and Dr. Peter Borten
People who find ways to incorporate their gifts into their lives are happier, more satisfied, more confident, more creative, more engaged in their work, and learn faster. Don’t build your life around your weaknesses, hoping that you’ll improve...
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- Written by: Master Charles Cannon
Most people are thoroughly hypnotized within the Material Myth, which means they feel separate and different from each other. The Material Myth is governed by the illusion of separation in consciousness (which is what gives rise to the ego in the first place).
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- Written by: Jude Bijou, M.A., M.F.T.
Being too self-critical is rampant in our society. We beat ourselves up over real and imagined imperfections. Whenever we criticize ourselves, we compound the issue. We turn one problem into two -- there's the social blunder, a poor financial decision or disapproving glance in the mirror -- and the demeaning self-loathing that follows.
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- Written by: Rebecca Nutbrown, UCL
Understanding how the human brain works is one of the most important goals of science. And one of the first steps to uncovering its secrets lies in working out how the brain is actually organized.
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- Written by: Jill Lublin
We are naturally geared for compassion, to share and bond and ease the pain and stress of others. There is room in business for compassion and you do not need to go to great lengths to begin spotting the opportunities for that type of connection.
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- Written by: Barbara Berger
If you sometimes experience anxiety that gets very intense, you may not be getting the help you deserve because you are ashamed of feeling anxious or having panic attacks. This is unfortunate because understanding what anxiety is and what triggers it can be a great help in demystifying and dealing sanely and appropriately with it.
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- Written by: Alisson Clark, University of Florida
When leaders abuse their power over others, they end up feeling the negative effects, too, a new study suggests.
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- Written by: Carl Greer PhD, PsyD
Many people have intuited that nature has healing powers, but now researchers are discovering more about how our bodies and minds benefit from our interactions with nature.
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- Written by: Charles Eisenstein
Addiction studies involving caged lab rats reveal disturbing insights about human nature and societal control. By contrasting these experiments with Bruce Alexander's findings of rats thriving in social environments, the article challenges the moralistic views of addiction and explores the implications for the War on Drugs and human well-being. A shift towards compassion and understanding could redefine societal structures.
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- Written by: George Diepenbrock, University of Kansas
Memory could be the key to how quickly we get tired of certain experiences, such as listening to music or eating certain foods.
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- Written by: Julie Sloane, University of Pennsylvania
People with loosely knit Facebook friend groups—small numbers of friends who don’t know each other well—tend to react more dynamically when excluded in real-world social situations, a new study suggests.
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- Written by: Emily Velasco, California Institute of Technology
Men who took high doses of testosterone performed worse on a test designed to measure cognitive reflection—the process in which we stop to consider if our gut reactions are right.
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- Written by: Sarah McLean
When you are suffering in some way, it may seem easier to focus your attention anywhere but on the painful situation at hand. So you distract yourself. Distractions can include focusing on the future, working too hard, compulsively...
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- Written by: Karen Casey
Acceptance of your fellow travelers has the power to change the journey for everyone you meet today. Its power isn’t restricted to just the interchange between two individuals. It permeates the encounters both of these individuals have with...
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- Written by: Jill Lublin
Being grateful seems like something you do for others, but it is a wonderfully selfish act as well. So although saying thanks has positive effects on those who hear it, it turns out that those who are thankful have lots to gain.
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- Written by: Alexis Blue, University of Arizona
Reminders of death make people more likely to support killing animals, regardless of their existing attitudes about animal rights, according to new research.
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- Written by: Sonia Ricotti
Victor Frankl said, “It’s the last of all human freedoms, the ability to choose.” We can choose to look at whatever we want. So if we choose to hold bad thoughts about someone, simply release them and send love to the people who bother you...
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- Written by: Erin Nichole Johnson
I’ve spent my life hiding my scars. I cope so well that no one, not even my husband knew the extent of what I deal with on a daily basis. Therapy has revealed my deepest hurts, brought them to the surface, and forced me to experience the pain I’ve been hiding so deeply in order to finally release it.
