38 days ago by Jorgen Sundberg

After a lovely two week vacation to Sri Lanka, I am now accustomed to smiling at people completely at random. Sri Lanka is a very smile-friendly place (even the monkey smile there as per above!) and I think it has something to do with Buddhism being the predominant religion there, very much like Tha ...

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39 days ago by cwongyap

Psychology professor Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton shares a nice thought about the optimism and pessimism of learning to carry into the new year. (Via Greater Good Science Center) A key aspect of the “grow your intelligence message” is the implications it has for the experience of difficulty. If one believ ...

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39 days ago by pamela j. stubbart

I’m almost done with Martin Seligman’s well-known book of positive psychology, Authentic Happiness (2003) . It’s been a very good read — although I was familiar with many of the relevant research findings, from my various internet travels (and Barking Up The Wrong Tree in particular), Seligman puts ...

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40 days ago by offwhiteliving

I love positive psychology. It’s a field of study that invests in the understanding of optimism, and how to cultivate self-efficacy. It’s awesome. Today I watched Martin Seligman talk about positive psychology in this really nice, fairly short video: My take away from it was this: How can we apply o ...

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41 days ago by drjayme

Happy New Year to my readers! As we ring in the new year, there are common traditions such as wishing everyone the healthiest, happiest and most abundant year! It’s also common place for most of us to take a little time to reflect on the year that just passed. Plus let’ s not forget the list of reso ...

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41 days ago by eyecontact

Generally, with aspects today, our ambitions could outreach our capacity. We could have bursts of energy then wilt into a need for rest. Pacing the progress today is a great solution. Bringing into the day a spiritual structure (like momentary awareness of how we are thinking) is very helpful. Today ...

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41 days ago by EKTherapies

Welcome to 2012, it is going to be a year full of excitement and opportunities. 2012 is the year the London is hosting the Olympics; it is a fresh start and can be filled with whatever you choose to fill it with. This is the time of year when New Year’s resolutions are made. A lot of people will kic ...

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42 days ago by Carin Rockind

Happy New Year my friends! So it’s January 1 – New year, new you. What are your resolutions? Time to lose weight! Workout 5 days a week. Drink more water. Meditate. Call mom more often! Sound familiar? These resolutions didn’t stick last year, and they likely won’t again...Chances are that by Februa ...

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42 days ago by eyecontact

Good day, 2012! Challenge, duty, restriction, breakthroughs, plodding along, being true to yourself. Those thoughts for 2012 impose direction into this yearly beginning. We know it's folly to expect less corruption in world power seekers, but there is always a childlike hope for equanimity worldwide ...

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42 days ago by Patrice

Welcome to 2012, Happy New Year! The year ahead holds lots of wonderful, exciting discoveries and adventures for you, and you don’t even have to leave home to experience them! Each week for the next three months, I will be posting about letting go, listening patiently and living gently. I will share ...

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