Each time you smile, a little party happens in your head. Seriously. Science has shown that smiling increases your health and happiness on the spot and long-term -…
To ensure survival, your ancestors’ brains developed a prickly awareness: always on the lookout for danger, zooming in on any potential threat, being super sensitive to painful experiences and…
For my first three decades on this Earth, life went pretty much according to plan. As I achieved major milestones, I smugly checked things off the “how-life-should-be” list in…
It seems counterintuitive that happiness could be anything but good for you. Right? Turns out that researchers classify happiness as falling into two categories. [tweet “One type of…
Over the process of evolution, the human brain tripled in size, mostly gaining girth in the prefrontal cortex (PFC), giving us our big foreheads. In this case, it’s…
After taking care of my brother as he wasted away and died from AIDs, the end of my 18-year marriage to my high school sweetheart in an ugly…
We all have down days and tough times and sometimes get stuck in a funk we just can’t seem to shake. For many people, this can become an…
There is much more failure in life than success. Of all the species that ever existed, scientists estimate that less than 0.1% are alive today. In 2010, the Cincinnati…
Your experience of your journey through life boils down to the chemicals in your brain. Happy, sad, mad, anxious, you name it – can all be traced to…
We’ve come a long way in the science of happiness and have a pretty good idea of what happy looks like in your brain these days. It’s now…
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.” — James Openheim Maybe you’ve always thought of yourself as being a “glass…