What makes for a successful and fulfilling life? How do we maintain a sense of balance in the face of life’s challenges and difficulties? How do we maintain a sense of who we are and what we consider to be valuable and true when life gets tough? Phillip Moffitt’s wonderful new book Emotional Chaos to [...]
Archive for the ‘Happiness’ Category
Emotional Chaos to Clarity
Posted in Happiness, Mindfulness on May 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
An Unhappy Mind is a Wandering Mind
Posted in Happiness, Mindfulness on November 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A human mind is a wandering mind and a wandering mind is an unhappy mind wrote psychologists Matthew Killingsworth and Daniel Gilbert of Harvard University in the Journal Science. According to these researchers, mind-wandering is a human brain’s default mode of operation. Using modern technology, the authors created an iphone app that contacted volunteers at [...]
Hedonic vs. Authentic Happiness
Posted in Happiness, tagged Happiness on January 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In his book, Authentic Happiness, Martin Seligman defines a hedonist as someone who defines the quality of his or her life on the quantity of good moments minus the quantity of bad moments. According to this theory, if we could only structure our lives so that we could have more happy moments than unhappy moments, [...]
The Power of Intention
Posted in Happiness, tagged Brain, Happiness, Intention on January 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Rick Foster & Greg Hicks in their wonderful book Happiness & Health, write about the power of intention in shaping our lives – “it’s a powerful message we give ourselves, creating the positive emotions that propel us upward on the spiral staircase to good health. By repeatedly setting positive intentions like looking for joy or [...]
Train Your Mind to Change Your Brain
Posted in Happiness, tagged Brain, Happiness on January 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In the last 20 years, neuro-scientists have made a remarkable discovery – the adult brain has neuro-plasticity, which means that it has the ability to change its structure and function to our experiences and thoughts. We are literally what we think. This discovery shatters the previously held deterministic view of a fixed program unfolding in [...]
Inclining the Mind to Joy
Posted in Gratitude, Happiness, tagged Brain, Gratitude, Joy on December 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the article, Seven Fact about the Brain that Incline the Mind to Joy, author Rick Hanson points out that the brain naturally emphasizes negative experiences. The term survival of the fittest means that those who successfully passed on their genes over millennia paid a lot of attention to negative experiences. Constantly on the alert, [...]
Why are we not happier?
Posted in Happiness, tagged Happiness on December 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
According to the Dalai Lama, “the purpose of our life is to seek happiness”. Yet why are we not happier? What keeps us from being happier? There may be many reasons for this, but one reason stands out for me. We are looking for happiness in the wrong places. That is because we are deeply [...]
