Thought Is Not Reality
Thought is not reality. Not exactly intuitive, is it? The first time I heard this it sounded so ridiculous, it was like someone trying to tell me clown shoes were in this season. Of course thought is reality. I told myself, smirking at the ludicrousness of anyone who might think otherwise. I mean, it may not be everyone else’s reality but it’s the only reality I have. [...]
Three Good Things
It’s evident from the research that happiness and gratitude can make us healthier. Researchers have found significant evidence that people who are happy tend to be healthier and live longer. In the famous “Nun Study,” the happiest quartile of nuns studied lived an average of 6.9 years longer than the unhappiest quartile. Another long-term study following Harvard students over 35 [...]
Be An Altruist
Everybody knows the story of Scrooge. He’s a sickly, mean, and selfish guy. With each act of kindness he commits, however, he becomes healthier, happier, and better off overall. What everybody doesn’t know is that Scrooge isn’t just a metaphor for the jerk next door. Research over the past 20 years has repeatedly shown that helping others can be powerfully [...]
Sunup to Sundown: Four Ways to Exercise Mindfully
Let’s begin with a definition of mindful exercise. Mindful exercise can be defined as any exercise, be it walking, running, using the elliptical, stretching, soccer, biking etc., that treats the activity itself as a practice in being fully awake to the present moment. Not only does mindful exercise help focus your workout and relive any stress you have been carrying during the [...]
The Power Of Happy Thoughts
Research has shown that optimistically-minded people are less likely to be hospitalized after coronary bypass surgery, have less pain, fewer physical symptoms and better physical functioning than those who are pessimistic. Over the last several decades, there has been a surge of research on the topic of optimism, with findings strongly linking an optimistic attitude to improved health and wellbeing. [...]
Mindfulness For The Overwelmed
Bad news: we’ve all gotten it at one time or another. It may be work-related—an announcement of lay-offs, funding for your project getting cut, the position you were hoping for being filled. Or it may be personal—someone you love falling ill, your basement flooding, your teenager getting into trouble . However you cut it, bad news is exactly what it [...]
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