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: Kristina Lerman
Have you ever felt like everyone else has so much more to be thankful for? Check your Facebook or Instagram feed: Your friends seem to dine at finer restaurants, take more exotic vacations and have more accomplished children. They even have cuter pets!
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- Written by: Karinna Kittles
Do you find you minimize parts of yourself such as health, emotions, talents, and abilities for the importance of the outer physique? We have been conditioned to equate the media and beauty industries' approved images with success...
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- Written by: Joseph W. Sidell
With all the concerns we have facing our global society, ranging from pollution of all sorts to bloodshed through wars and human rights violations, we must look at the underlying cause for what is happening -- the lack of love. We are beginning to look more at our inner Selves, and in this action we are finding a heart that has become cold and unfulfilled...
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- Written by: Aviva Segal and Sandra Martin-Chang
Parents are often their children’s first literacy teachers. They oversee children signing their names on artwork and read storybooks with their kids.
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- Written by: Alexandra Hansen
If you have kids, chances are you’ve worried about their presence on social media.
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- Written by: Dr. Brenda Davies
Friends encourage and support each other in difficult times and generally make a positive impact on each other's lives. However, they're also willing to confront and constructively . So let's take a look at how you can deal with conflict and with saying those things that your friend might not want to hear.
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- Written by: Alex Shaw and Hannah Hok
Kids seem to learn about the idea of hypocrisy early in elementary school, new research suggests.
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- Written by: Eden King
A new study on sex-based discrimination toward women in the workplace documents the plusses and minuses of male allies.
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- Written by: Elizabeth Darling, et al
Polyamory is the act of engaging in multiple consensual, potentially long-term, romantic or sexual relationships at the same time.
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- Written by: Brenda Crawford-Clark
Consider this: 167 million men and women in the United States are on a diet at any given moment. If that many people are trying a solution and it doesn't work, something's wrong with the so-called solution. Contrary to what proponents of expensive diet regimens say, these diets can't work long term, no matter how much willpower you have.
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- Written by: Joanne Wood and Kassandra Cortes
Loving an insecure person can be frustrating. You always feel like you have to offer praise or reassurance.
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- Written by: Barbara J. Semple
'Energy in motion' can be used for good or bad, the same as a pencil can be used to draw a beautiful picture or to poke someone in the eye. I know how I consciously direct my emotional energy is important and I reach some confidence in doing so by feeling my feelings.
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- Written by: Lora Cheadle
Even though many of us had the illusion that reaching adulthood would mean we had achieved a sort of award-worthy final destination where we could live forevermore from a place of certainty and peace, knowing what to do and what to wear in every circumstance, this was probably not the case.
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- Written by: Barry Vissell
Over the last four decades, Joyce and I have counseled many couples who are suffering with their sexual relationship. Most of these couples also feel disconnected from each other. They think they can improve their overall relationship by improving their sexual relationship. This is usually a mistake.
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- Written by: Hetty Roessingh
Perhaps evolution’s most wondrous manifestation is visible in the unparalleled elegance and versatility in the design of the human hand.
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- Written by: Dean Van Leuven
We use anger in disciplining our children because we become upset by what they do, and we then become angry. But when we mix the 'lesson' with our anger, we end up teaching our child that it's okay to respond with anger to things that upset us. When we respond with anger, the child learns anger.
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- Written by: Harry Reis and Gurit Birnbaum
With sex on their minds, people are more likely to change their attitudes and engage in deceptive self-presentation, research on sexual priming finds.
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- Written by: John Izzo, Ph.D.
Children seem able to find wonder in the simplest of things -- an unusual bug on the sidewalk, a puddle that is particularly deep, a small paper airplane. As we age, somehow our capacity for awe and wonder is diminished, just as our skin loses its elasticity. So how do we recapture the experience of wonder?
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- Written by: Alan Watts
You might say that not-forcing is the second principle of the Tao -- in Chinese it is called wu wei, and it means literally 'not doing', but would be much better translated to give it the spirit of 'not forcing' or 'not obstructing'. Wu wei when applied to human activity refers to a person who does not get in his or her own way.
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- Written by: Alan Cohen
If you are losing energy in the form of joy, health, money, or love, you have a leak in your system. There is no malevolent parasite that has invaded your world and is undermining you. Your leak is on your property, and as such you have access to repair it.
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- Written by: Montel Williams and Jeffrey Gardere, Ph.D.
Here's a stunner: 64 percent of all marriages that began in 1990 ended in divorce by the turn of the millennium. 70 percent of those failed marriages produced at least one child. Roughly half of all children born in this country over the past 15 years have ended up being children of divorce.
