You are not your thoughts. No matter what’s going on in your head, there’s a part of you that is separate from it. There is a part of you…
Everyone has pesky, negative, worrisome thoughts. That’s normal. If you’re lucky, it’s less often than all the time. Why You Have A Negative Brain I’ve seen estimates that…
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…
We’ve all been told at one time or another – probably far too often – “Just let it go.” I’m sure the person offering this well-meaning sentiment intended…
You get a glowing performance review from your boss, but you replay the few constructive criticisms over and over in your head. Even though a first date was…
Your mind has a mind of its own and races around at one hundred miles an hour jumping from one thing to the next. Sometimes, the random thoughts…
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…
Serotonin’s Role in Depression and Willpower (and how to make more) Serotonin is a neurochemical that does so many different things in your body that it’s really…
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…
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…
On the Best Brain Possible Facebook page, I’ve learned from experience to be very choosy about any posts on depression because people can get really passionate and colorfully expressive about…