If you want to sharpen your mind, decrease stress and improve the quality of your life, meditation can help. Meditation cultivates mindfulness and is a drug-free way to control and prevent anxiety and, to a certain extent, depression. It can also help you cope with physical pain or discomfort, such as back pain or headaches. The […]
Read moreFrom FOMO to JOMO
If you often think the grass is greener on the other side, then look again. You may be experiencing FOMO – the fear of missing out. People with FOMO constantly think that they would be happier in a different set of circumstances. They feel that they are missing out on the “perfect lives” that some people project on social […]
Read moreAndre Agassi on helping others
“Helping [others] provides more satisfaction and makes me feel more connected and alive and myself than anything else that happens … I tell myself: Remember this. Hold on to this. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting value or […]
Read moreBe less attached to outcomes
Last summer, my husband John found a page that belonged to an old agenda – a gift I had given him years ago when we were living in Toronto, Canada. In the chunky agenda block, which also served as a paper weight, each day gave him an inspiring thought or quote. And, last summer, John came across the […]
Read moreThe Dalai Lama on well-being
“The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well-being becomes.” – The Dalai Lama
Read moreHappiness starts and ends with me
Originally posted on FROM STRUGGLE TO STRENGTH:
No one else is responsible for making me happy. That is an inside job and my choice. I can either choose to allow my situations to define me and make me feel miserable or I can accept my situations, deal with them, learn from them and keep it…