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: Nicolya Christi
Will we experience a new era of peace and harmony or continue to break down and destroy? Both potential outcomes are a possibility. We have a responsibility as human beings to contribute to the former...
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- Written by: Nicolya Christi
Will we experience a new era of peace and harmony or continue to break down and destroy? Both potential outcomes are a possibility. We have a responsibility as human beings to contribute to the former...
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- Written by: Marie T. Russell, InnerSelf.com
We each have our individual experiences, frame of reference, and opinions. This creates our own unique perspective on our surroundings and on life in general. We see life "through a glass darkly"...
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- Written by: Jude Bijou
What goes on in the world, just is the way it is. How we interpret other people, things, and situations is up to us. We can either put a negative or a positive spin on what we experience.
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- Written by: Jude Bijou
What goes on in the world, just is the way it is. How we interpret other people, things, and situations is up to us. We can either put a negative or a positive spin on what we experience.
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- Written by: Joyce Vissell
Have you ever really needed help and it seemed like no one cared? Well, we just had that experience and it ended up in a beautiful miracle.
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- Written by: Joyce Vissell
Have you ever really needed help and it seemed like no one cared? Well, we just had that experience and it ended up in a beautiful miracle.
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- Written by: Wendy Paris
When the fairy godmother appeared, Cinderella had the courage to seize an opportunity to change. She didn't peer at the fairy godmother suspiciously, snarling, "You know what they say, 'If something looks too good to be true, it probably is."
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- Written by: Regina Louise
From the moment when I began writing my first book, about growing up in foster care, and the follow-up book (my graduate thesis) detailing my adult adoption by the beloved counselor I met while living in a children’s shelter, I knew that a film version had to happen. I felt this truth deeply.
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- Written by: Thomas Andrillon, Neuroscience researcher
Our attention is a powerful lens, allowing our brains to pick out the relevant details out of the overwhelming flow of information reaching us every second.
Pseudo-hallucinations: why some people see more vivid mental images than others – test yourself here
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- Written by: Reshanne Reeder, Edge Hill University
Like a computer screen, the part of your brain that processes visual information (the visual cortex) has a refresh “button” which helps it sample the environment – taking snapshots of the world in quick succession. In other words, your brain collects sensory information with...
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- Written by: Joseph Chilton Pearce
On an English television show, Uri Geller invited all those people out there in television land to join him, to participate in his metal bending by holding forks or spoons themselves to see if the phenomenon might be repeated. Some 1,500 reports flooded the BBC, claiming that forks, spoons, anything handy had indeed bent, broken, moved about—there, in the homes of Britain...
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- Written by: Joseph Chilton Pearce
On an English television show, Uri Geller invited all those people out there in television land to join him, to participate in his metal bending... to see if the phenomenon might be repeated. Some 1,500 reports flooded the BBC, claiming that forks, spoons, anything handy had indeed bent, broken, moved about—there, in the homes of Britain...
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- Written by: Bill Plotkin, Ph.D.
The most important question is not how to survive biodiversity loss, climate disruption, ecological degradation, pandemics, and fascism. It’s not even: Will we survive? It’s this: What would it look like if we really loved this world...
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- Written by: Jennifer Trueblood
When my husband and I purchased a new home last year, the house we ultimately bought was one we had at first ruled out. While the house had many positives, including being affordable, it also had several negatives, so we’d kept looking.
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- Written by: Serge Kahili King
It’s easy to oversimplify daydreaming by saying that all you have to do is imagine something, but for the budding Dream Technician I’m going to give some very useful exercises and practices.
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- Written by: Stuart Wilde
What we think we know to be true, we actually borrowed from somebody else. When you were born, your subconscious mind began to record all the sensations and inputs you were exposed to. Bit by bit, you sucked up, without question, the tribal belief patterns you were exposed to...
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- Written by: Andy Fell
Recent research reveals that people often rely on subjective memories—how vivid they feel—more than on the actual accuracy of those memories when making decisions. This study distinguishes between objective and subjective memory processes, highlighting their independent functions in the brain and their implications for how we evaluate memories in real-life situations.
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- Written by: Constance Kellough
The journey to higher and higher consciousness is endless. However, it bears asking ourselves, “Where are we now?” Do we have some awareness of what we need to do to bring ourselves inner peace?
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- Written by: Pierre Pradervand
How I see my life path is a choice I make minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day… And this choice will determine the quality of my life.
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- Written by: Marie T. Russell
They say you can't take it with you... That is false! Not only do you take it with you, but you come in with it. I'm not talking about material possessions, but rather about personality traits, lessons to be learned...
