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: Sobonfu E.Somé
In Africa, it is understood that children hold the knowledge and gifts that ensure the survival of the village and the tribe. In essence, the child is the king of the village. Children complete the community! When a child walks into...
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- Written by: Roberta Maisel
Giving advice is one of the points of greatest tension and conflict. But giving advice often makes matters worse. Your decision to advise or not to advise falls largely on your ability to keep your ego out of the proceedings.
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- Written by: Joseph Reagle
There’s never been a shortage of dating advice from family, friends and self-help authors. Yet in the digital age, people are turning to nerdy hacker-types as guides.
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- Written by: Nancy Windheart
If you’re like me, you might be finding that you need a bit of a breather this month. It’s important to take time to rest, to let everything settle in, shake out, and shake down, and allow the inner and outer transformations that we have all experienced to take root deeply within our bodies, our psyches, and our souls.
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- Written by: Gerry Everding
Kids who have more conflict with their mothers while in the early years of elementary school may find it more difficult to find a sense of purpose as adults, a new study suggests.
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- Written by: Hermes Rivera Jade Bilardi, et al
So your friend decides to forget the “12 week rule” and tells her family and social networks she is pregnant.
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- Written by: Sandra Knispel
Sex helps initiate romantic relationships between potential partners, a new study finds.
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- Written by: Marie T. Russell
So many of us go through life trying to be better than someone else, or better than who we think we are, or better than who we've been. Just as Bruce Willis's character in The Kid, we go around trying to "achieve" -- achieve changing ourselves, changing others, and changing...
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- Written by: Jackson Holtz
Bottle feeding infants is associated with left-handedness, according to a new study.
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- Written by: Katherine Gustafson
Adults who prepare quality meals for children are offering something more important than a nutrition lesson.
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- Written by: Guillaume Thierry
English has achieved prime status by becoming the most widely spoken language in the world – if one disregards proficiency
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- Written by: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Many of my best friends think that some of my deeply held beliefs about important issues are obviously false or even nonsense.
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- Written by: Stuart Sovatsky, Ph.D.
What brings a person to consider celibacy for a few months or years cannot be easily explained. It will take some time to reap the results of greater tolerance for sexual feelings without needing to act on them in conventional ways. Sex will become more of a choice than a need.
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- Written by: Will Johnson
The practice of looking into someone’s eyes and holding his or her gaze stimulates the sensations and presence of the body so strongly that it can almost be thought of as touch at a distance. The primary reason that many people find gazing into another’s eyes so challenging and daunting...
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- Written by: Alfred Allan and Maria Allan
During the end-of-year holidays families often come together to exchange gifts and, sometimes, to confront long-held grudges. What better gift than a peace offering?
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- Written by: Maureen Healy
Our children feel things deeply, including surprise, delight, disgust, anger, frustration, revenge, jealousy, and enthusiasm. They often don’t even have the words to communicate their feelings, which is why they sometimes act them out inappropriately, but once they learn...
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- Written by: Jared Wadley
Improvisational theater training can reduce fearfulness and anxiety among teens struggling with social interactions, according to a new study.
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- Written by: James Urton
When school begins later, teens get more snooze time—and grades and attendance improve, a new study shows.
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- Written by: Armin A. Zadeh
A great irony of human existence is that love, which is arguably the single most desired goal in life, is so poorly understood and so hard for us to master. Given its importance, we might expect that enormous resources would be spent on understanding how to attain love.
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- Written by: Michael J. Gelb
Empathy is a powerful tool that can significantly enhance relationships and enrich lives. By truly understanding and connecting with others, individuals can create trust and deeper connections. Techniques for practicing empathy include active listening and being present without offering advice, which can lead to more meaningful interactions and support.
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- Written by: Walter Ling, MD
People are meant to live in communities. It is our nature; it is in our genes and in our jeans. Being connected with other people is crucial to our happiness.
