There’s no doubt about it. Our modern lifestyles are not good for our brains. With restaurant food delivered to your door 24/7, never-ending dings and digital screens, 70-hour…
Just what is this thing we call happiness? Try to define it. You’ll end up describing feelings, things, or even circumstances which will undoubtedly vary from person to…
In the past few decades, we’ve made substantial progress in understanding the science of happiness. Positive psychology has a pretty good understanding of how happy happens in your…
1. Trying to please everyone When you try to please everyone else, you will fail because it’s impossible. The person who ends up the most unhappy is…
Every emotion you feel can be mapped to measurable biological activity in your brain — especially in the limbic system and prefrontal cortex. Over time, your repetitive emotional…
Loneliness can adversely impact your health to the degree that high blood pressure, lack of exercise, obesity, or smoking does, according to research. A meta-analysis found that being lonely is…
We all know that it feels good to be on the receiving end of a gift or a good deed, but did you also know there are plenty of…
Do you ever feel lost in your own life? You look around one day only to realize that you’re playing a part you’ve locked yourself into – a…
As you probably know — maybe even firsthand, depression is more than just feeling blue or having negative emotions. That happens to all of us. That’s normal. Depression…
I often wonder if I would have met my dad’s dad, had better treatments for depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) been available after World War II. Frank…
There’s only one guarantee in life and that is that you will die one day. Nobody likes to talk about death. It makes people squirm, avoid eye contact,…