Tal Ben-Shahar: Five Ways To Be Happier
This is a video segment of a longer interview with Tal Ben-Shahar a Harvard lecturer and researcher in Positive Psychology (the psychology of what is right with us and how to get more of that). In this five minute piece Ben-Shahar talks about: The importance of accepting our feelings whatever they might be. The benefits [...]
Just listening
A friend of mine, who I was trying to help, remarked that I wasn’t taking her difficulty seriously because I was trying to fix it rather than acknowledge it. On reflection I think she was right. Just to emphasize the point the universe, in the shape of Bill O’Hanlon, sent me this: DEEP LISTENING: How [...]
How To Release Identity Beliefs
“I think, therefore I am” – Descartes “I am what I am!” – Popeye When we grow up we sort through masses of experience to come up with an understanding of the world and ourselves. Part of this understanding is of the aspects of our experience we label ‘I’, ‘myself’, ‘me’ – names for parts [...]
Inner Reconciliation
‘A house divided against itself cannot stand’ – Mathew 12:25 Just imagine for a moment you are in a conversation with someone important to you and they start saying “I hate you” or “I blame you” or “I can’t forgive you”. That would be difficult stuff to take, especially if the reason you are being [...]
Happy New Year!
How do you want to feel in 2010? It’s that time of year when we start to think about those New Year’s Resolutions. All the things we want to do, have and be in this New Year – new car, exotic holiday, lose weight, a new career, etc. Often we don’t realise consciously that what [...]
New Year Clarifications
Image by Jessica Bee via Flickr It’s the season of New Year’s Resolutions. Perhaps prodded by optimism or guilt we decide to undertake a worthy project for the New Year: loosing weight, taking up exercise, learning French, being nicer to our in-laws. I’ve got more than a few candidates for New Year’s Resolutions things I [...]
Garden for Happiness
The warmer weather prompts me to repost this article by my good friend Masha Bennett Having been a horticulturist in my “past life”, I would like to include some leafy and flowery thoughts to contribute to your happiness and well-being. It is well known that gardening can be therapeutic – but no tips on digging [...]
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