When we embark on making healthy choices to improve our lives, we will have failures and slip up. Here’s how to handle such situations…
Think Differently about Healthy Eating Goals
Most of us have new year’s resolutions or goals to improve our eating. For some of us, it’s about improving our health. For others, it is about losing those pounds we gained over the holidays. Research shows that a non-dieting approach known as “Mindful Eating”, can help us achieve whatever our goal is around eating. Here’s more…
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What Purpose Does Sadness Serve?
Does Happiness Impact Your Immune System?
Numerous books have extolled the value of happiness, resulting in “life coaching for happiness” becoming a thriving industry. Much of the research on psychological well-being is related to depression and stress with ill health. Even taking negative emotions into account, the linkage between happiness and health is distinctive (Steptoe, 2019). Studies over two decades show that happiness affects our physical health in the following ways…
Is Happiness a Choice?
In an overview of studies on happiness, Sonja Lyubomirsky found that we control at least 40% of our happiness through our focus and choices (Lyubomirsky, 2013). We now know we can raise our happiness by cultivating positive emotions such as love, kindness, compassion, gratitude, hope, and inspiration. Here are some science-based ways to boost your happiness and well-being.
Are Happiness and Joy the Same?
Happiness is an emotional state—feeling happy about something means feeling satisfied—or maybe it’s an assessment of our life or someone else’s. Joy is an episodic emotion and is felt concurrent with the situation prompting this emotion and arises during activities. The following factors can explain the main differences between joy and happiness…
Are Gratitude and Appreciation the Same?
How Does Practicing Gratitude Affect the Brain?
Our brains scan for and notice negativity without conscious thought. Today, however, it is possible to rewire our brains for positivity vs. negativity. A gratitude practice is an effective way for us to do this. It works because the more you practice gratitude, the more you strengthen the brain’s neural circuits for gratitude. Here’s what gratitude does to your brain…
