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: Robert B. Talisse
People say they want everyone to have cool heads and polite exchanges of views, even during important political debates.
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- Written by: Jacob Liberman
We often talk about "wanting to be spiritual," but being spiritual and taking care of our everyday affairs are exactly the same thing. There is no difference. With clarity we become ordinary -- simply taking care of whatever comes before us. In this process, we develop trust that...
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- Written by: Jay Maddock and Lori Andersen Spruance
Research has shown that youth who participate in sports leagues are eight times as likely to be active in their early 20s than those who don’t participate.
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- Written by: Alan Cohen
After many years of coaching and leading seminars, I have discovered two areas that most people ask about most frequently: prosperity and relationships. Most people are looking for their love mate, or, if they have one, are seeking a better connection.
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- Written by: Marie T. Russell
How can one be afraid of the past when it has already happened? Yet when one looks closely at the fears we have for the future, we see they are often repetitions of old fears, or of things that have happened to us or to others in the past. What is it you fear? Look back at your past and see...
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- Written by: Barry Long
A long, long time ago, when human beings were not so fixed in their physical bodies as they are today, there lived a man (or was it a woman?) who made for himself a marvelous mask -- a mask that could pull many faces.
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- Written by: Zenith Henkin Gross
Americans are deeply ambivalent about the solitary person in our midst. On the one hand, the lone hero is much admired in national folklore. On the other side of our ambivalence is the belief that to be alone, even temporarily, is to have been abandoned and to be sunk in a black misery of loneliness.
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- Written by: Dr. Paula Sunray
Everything we do in life is a relationship. We have a relationship with money, with our body, and with our car. We have a relationship with everything! Relationships are difficult and challenging spiritual practices. They give us the opportunity to test our skills of communication, intimacy, authenticity, and integrity.
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- Written by: Amanda Abrams
Here’s something fascinating about stories that recount a major change of heart.
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- Written by: Alan Cohen
We experience repetitious patterns in relationship, work, or health; different actors are showing up to play out the same role. Eventually we recognize that it cannot be an accident that the same type of people keep doing the same things; it is we who have drawn them according to the signals we are radioing to central casting.
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- Written by: Deborah Bateson and Kathleen McNamee
About one-third of women using contraception use the pill. But how effective is it?
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- Written by: Alex Haslam, et al
One question the ABC’s promotional material focused on was “Are you lonely?”
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- Written by: Andrew Barron
How did homosexuality in humans evolve? Typically, this question is posed as a paradox.
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- Written by: Jean Twenge
Major depression among teen girls in the U.S. increased even more – from 12% in 2011 to 20% in 2017.
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- Written by: Dr. Bonnie Eaker Weil
People who are married or in committed relationships are healthier, wealthier, and happier. So why do more than 60 percent of marriages end in divorce?
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- Written by: Phil Lane Jr.
A wise elder once told me, "Grandson, the longest road you will ever have to walk is the sacred journey from your head to your heart." Another elder said, "We will never solve the many critical and life-threatening issues before us solely through the intellect; for every problem the intellect solves it creates ten more."
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- Written by: Marelin the Magician
Radiating the resonance of unconditional love is the intention of all those who have attracted this message. You have come forth to teach one another to stay with the love, no matter what the conditions hold.
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- Written by: Diana Coholic
With art, you have all the colours in the world to share your thoughts,” wrote one youth in the Holistic Arts-based Program at Laurentian University.
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- Written by: Sue Patton Thoele
|I know from my own life, and as a former therapist, that family foibles and failures can be excruciatingly painful. For many of us, it takes great strength to heal from childhood wounds.
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- Written by: Martin Lenz
Philosophical discussions, whether in a professional setting or at the bar, frequently consist of calling out mistakes in whatever has been proposed: ‘This is all very well, but …
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- Written by: Matteo Farina
While most of us intuitively understand what others find interesting, there’s a growing body of research on online engagement and the characteristics of viral content.
