Rachel Kable—author, podcaster, blogger and mindfulness coach from Victoria in Australia—recently participated in a podcast interview with Dr. Justin Puder. In the course of the interview, she explained that when she first started out practising mindfulness in the more formal way of meditating (e.g., focusing on her breath), she had great difficulty and did not like it…
Fit as Ever at 73
At 73 years old, I have absolutely no health or weight issues. I am a living testimony that aging isn’t synonymous with aches and pains, reduced physical activity, or lower quality of life. My story of fitness began 40 years ago with inspiration from the 1979 Michael Douglas film “Running.” Even though I wasn’t overweight,…
The Goal Life
If we want to be happy, our actual selves need to largely overlap with our ideal selves. A significant gap between who we want to be in life and who we are is a reliable recipe for misery. It is in this gap that a host of undesirable emotional states dwell, such as anxiety, depression, disillusionment, regret, and bitterness….
Social Media Use Lowers Life Satisfaction in Adolescents
Girls and boys may be more vulnerable to the negative effects of social media use during specific windows of their adolescence, researchers found after a large longitudinal study. The new study, published in Nature Communications, analyzed two datasets of 84,000 participants aged 10 to 80 years old. Tracking the same individuals over the course of…
Engaging Pursuits for Later Life
If you’re a Type A competitive person, the word “hobby” may give you hives. And you probably don’t like the word “pastime,” either. But as we get older—especially after our children are out of the house and we’re either retired or considering retirement—we all need engaging pursuits to keep us happy and healthy. The best…
The Key to Having More Energy Is Meaning
Many people feel empty, exhausted, and worn out from life. They just don’t have the energy they need to do the things life is throwing at them. This listlessness is fairly common. Research published in the journal Medical Hypotheses in 2018 found that a persistent lack of energy affects between 20 and 45 percent of Americans….
An Ode to Feeling Uncomfortable
Our culture has developed a new kind of allergy, an allergy to a particular experience—namely, emotional discomfort. It seems that we’re no longer willing or able to tolerate feeling uncomfortable. And furthermore, we’ve come to believe we shouldn’t have to tolerate any kind of emotional discomfort. Any situation that could possibly trigger uncomfortable feelings is…
4 Morning Rituals to Start Your Day Off Right
Establishing a regular morning routine helps you stay more focused and productive during the day. It can be as simple as making your bed, or reminding yourself of one good thing that happened the previous day. These habits will help shift your perspective to a positive one and get you prepared for the day ahead. …
Powerful Training for the Mind
Every one of us has thought patterns that keep us stuck: Discouragement: What’s the point, I’m going to fail anyway, why even try, it’s too hard. Rationalizing: It’s OK to skip this, I can do it later, one time won’t hurt, do it but don’t try that hard, wait out the clock, go through the…
The One Thing You Can’t Live Without
by Lori Borgman Tribune News Service Don’t ever say things can’t get worse. At least not out loud. The cosmos will prove you wrong. It can and often does. When life does indeed “get worse,” you quickly discover the things you can live without. It’s like a giant loofah exfoliates your entire life. There’s sleep,…
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