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Friendship

Study Shows Selflessness is Natural Human Spirituality

All spiritual experiences are based in the brain. That statement is truer than ever before, according to a University of Missouri neuropsychologist. A new study has data to support a neuropsychological model that proposes spiritual experiences associated with selflessness are related to decreased activity in the right parietal lobe of the brain. The study is one of the first to use individuals with traumatic brain injury to determine this connection.

Gratitude

Simple Instructions for Life and Living

I’m a strong proponent of positive psychology, an emergent field that has the potential to actually transform personal lives, relationships, …Read the Rest

Gratitude

A Map and Models for Positive Psychology

The emergent field of positive psychology offers a novel way to look at one’s life, society, and relationships. Check out …Read the Rest

Wellness

5 Easy Steps for Guys to Live Long and Well

Five behaviors in elderly men are associated not only with living into extreme old age, a new study has found, …Read the Rest

Gratitude

Book review (short and potent): The How of Happiness

Check out Kathryn Britton’s review of Sonja Lyubomirsky’s book, The How of Happiness, over at Positive Psychology News Daily. This is a favorite website …Read the Rest

14 Simple Ways to Convert Your Sedentary Lifestyle

Tricks to include some activity in daily habits to take it from a sedentary lifestyle to a mildly active one. …Read the Rest

Science

Practice Does Make Perfect: The Value of Deliberate Practice

The emergent field of positive psychology’s idea of focused, mindful deliberate practice. [James here: this is a dynamite article, short …Read the Rest