Positive Psychology

How and why to cultivate gratitude

"It's not happiness that brings us gratitude. It's gratitude that beings us happiness." Why Practice Gratitude? Gratitude is good for…

July 28, 2022

Be lived by love

Feeling both the world and myself these days, one phrase keeps calling: lived by love. Explicitly, this means coming from…

December 20, 2017

Finding meditation’s intrinsic rewards

The mind is pulled in two different directions in meditation. Peace, calm, and joy are the intrinsic rewards that meditation offers, and…

October 30, 2017

Meditation as a “positivity cascade”

It used to be that if you wanted to learn to meditate you had to take the risk of entering an…

May 13, 2017

Get your sit together in 2017

Meditating regularly has immense benefits. Meditating makes you happier, is good for your health, protects your brain from aging, boosts…

December 9, 2016

Letting happiness happen

The one emotion that we most commonly repress is joy. We don't intend to do this. Instead, it happens through…

July 27, 2016

How to improve your attention span through meditation

Your ability to stick with something varies from activity to activity. For example, when playing Scrabble or a computer game,…

April 26, 2016

Remembering to be happy

I've made and immediately forgotten too many New Year's resolutions to be a believer in them, but the start of…

January 15, 2016

Which positive emotion has the most “awesome” health benefits?

The New York Times magazine this weekend will have an interesting article in its health column, The Well, about research…

March 26, 2015

Creating a natural anti-depressant brain?

I haven't read the book I'm about to introduce, but I'm familiar with the author and the advance information about…

January 12, 2015