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: Pierre Pradervand
Living in a straightjacket is not the most pleasant experience.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
Breaking habitual behavior patterns requires self-awareness, courage, and a willingness to challenge our own beliefs and assumptions. It can be a difficult and sometimes painful process, but it is necessary if we want to live fulfilling and meaningful lives.
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- Written by: Steven Washington
Practicing gratitude has positive effects on our body, mind, and social connections; it improves our health and well-being in numerous measurable and immeasurable ways.
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- Written by: Marie T. Russell, InnerSelf.com
In today's society, it can be challenging to be happy for someone else's success.
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- Written by: David C. Bentall
Gratitude is like a new lens through which to view the world and our part in it.
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- Written by: Cormac Russell and John McKnight
Consumerism carries two related messages that dampen the impulse to discover hidden treasure in our own neighborhoods.
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- Written by: Kristin Naragon-Gainey
Financial stress is affecting us in many different ways. Some people are struggling to pay bills, feed the family, or maintain a place to live. Others are meeting their basic needs but are dipping into their savings for extras.
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- Written by: Steven Washington
Stepping into the unknown and beyond the constraints we have created for ourselves is no small feat, but it is a worthwhile effort.
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- Written by: Hugh and Gayle Prather
As we amble along our chosen path, we encounter many distractions. One of the most insidious is the notion that to pursue a path is sufficient, that pursuit is an end in itself.
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- Written by: Joyce Vissell
A lot has been written about forgiveness and how it blesses the person who forgives. I hope to add another aspect which is very important in the journey of full forgiveness.
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- Written by: Dawn Baumann Brunke
We human beings are such incongruous creatures, saying one thing while thinking or feeling another. We flaunt and celebrate parts of ourselves, hide, repress, and deny others.
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- Written by: Corrie Pikul
People who share a political ideology have more similar “neural fingerprints” of political words and process new information in similar ways, according to a new analysis.
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- Written by: Ellen Meredith
If you were born before the year 2000, you most likely experienced the old reality, which I have come to think of as the outside-in culture.
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- Written by: MaryAnn DiMarco
Fear happens. It’s unavoidable. It’s part of what makes us human. When fear rears its ugly head, it creates havoc. Though this is never an easy experience, it can be particularly damaging for spiritual Lightworkers.
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- Written by: Pierre Pradervand
Kindness is one of the most civilized expressions of the human being. The well-known US writer George Saunders says that what he regrets most in life are failures of kindness.
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- Written by: Barry Vissell
Coronaphobia is a real word. Researchers coined this term in December 2020. It's the fear of Covid infection, sometimes to the point of crippling a person, interfering with their lives.
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- Written by: Gabes Torres
"When was the last time you experienced compassion? Similar to shame, compassion is also a social experience."
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- Written by: Olivier Clerc
“Can we heal the wounds of the heart, can everything be forgiven?” The question must actually be reformulated.
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- Written by: Bryant Lusk
Anxiety disorders have long been associated with the early-onset and progression of cardiovascular health issues.
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- Written by: Charlotte Pennington and Daniel Shaw
Are you a doom scroller or a frequent Tweeter? Do you pass the time by flicking endlessly through others’ posts on social networking sites, or perhaps you use these platforms to share your own content?
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- Written by: Dawn Baumann Brunke
If spiders present so little of an actual threat to our survival, why do we fear them so much?
