Mary Oliver on How Habit Gives Shape to Our Inner Lives
“The patterns of our lives reveal us. Our habits measure us.”
7 Tips for Replacing Bad Habits with Positive Habits
How to create a happy life by implementing "The Slight Edge" philosophy.
Why Resilient People Are Happier—and How to Be More Like Them
Why Resilient People Are Happier—and How to Be More Like Them: Eight habits of highly resilient—and successful...
Anorexia May Be Habit, Not Willpower, Study Finds
The findings may help explain the role habitual behavior plays in disorders where people persist in making self-destructive choices no matter the consequences.
How Worry Takes Us away from Our Lives (and What We Can Do)
Why Can Some People Recall Every Day Of Their Lives? Brain Scans Offer Clues
People with extraordinary autobiographical memories also tend to have obsessive tendencies, researchers are learning. Brain scans reveal structural differences in the brains of these people, including a larger-than-normal caudate, a brain area linked to OCD.
7 Habits That Build Resiliency
How you approach your life and build resiliency can make the difference between it feeling manageable or chaotic
How to stop a bad habit
People are not pigeons. Move beyond the reward/punish dynamic when you want to help people become motivated.
Oliver Sacks, Exploring How Hallucinations Happen
The famed neurologist talks to Fresh Air about how grief, trauma, brain injury, medications and neurological disorders can trigger hallucinations — and about his personal experimentation with hallucinogenic drugs in the 1960s.
How to Quit a Toxic Interrupting Habit
To stop cutting people off, learn to be a better listener
4 Happiness Habits Everyone Should Learn Before Growing Up
Our ideas about how to be happy are often contrary to what really works
7 Reflective Questions That Lead to Better Habits
Rekindle a relationship with yourself, your own version of happiness and a life full of significance with these questions for better habits.
10 Happy Habits You Should Start Now
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it’s something you design into the present. Nobody can pull you down if you raise your awareness to your own inner strength and positivity. …
7 No-Nonsense Tips To Jumpstart A Meditation Habit
A lot of people go to meditation seminars, buy books on meditation, and even have guided meditations downloaded onto their mobile devices … but many of them don't actually meditate. Not regularly, at least<br>This is normal. In marketing there a concept known as AIDA , which describes the process that we must go through before taking any real action. AIDA stands for: Awareness, Interest, Desire and Action.<br>So how do we move ourselves along the continuum from Interest or Desire to Action,…
Futile Persistence: Why Do We Keep Our Bad Habits?
We are motivated by self-interest yet regularly act to undermine it.
10 Habits Keeping You Depressed (and How to Break Them)
Depression, a mental illness that affects an estimated 350 million people worldwide, results from a complicated combination of social, psychological and biological factors. The disorder undermines thoughts, mood and physical health and interferes with daily life and normal functioning. Depression often brings on stress, dysfunction and certain...
10 Mood-Lifting Habits You Can Start Now
3 Key Habits of Mentally Strong People, and How to Master Them
These three crucial habits help you build resilience so you can better weather what life throws at you.
Worst Habits For Your Mental Health
Stop slouching and other ways to boost mental health.
How to develop a habit of Gratitude
How to develop a habit of Gratitude Start with an awareness that you need to develop a habit of gratitude Make it a habit, not just an attitude and then try ...
How To Upgrade Your Subconscious “Normal” Every 90 Days
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
