Mastering one's creative intuitive power can lead to profound personal transformation. By trusting in our innate abilities and embracing change, individuals can pursue their...
A recent study reveals that childhood experiences of violence, abuse, and neglect can significantly accelerate biological aging and impact health outcomes. Researchers found that...
New research reveals that proactively offering help in the workplace can lead to negative outcomes for both helpers and recipients. Management professor Russell Johnson explains...
Research highlights the crucial role of community environments in shaping early childhood development. The Kids in Communities Study identifies key factors that contribute to...
For centuries, literacy meant learning to read. Then it meant learning to write. Today it demands a third skill that no classroom has ever made mandatory: learning to think. Not...
Some rules protect us, while others quietly limit our choices, creativity, and self-trust. By learning to distinguish necessary rules from outdated expectations, we open the door...
Life can be filled with unexpected delays and frustrations, but these experiences might be part of a greater plan. A touching story illustrates how a couple's visa delays...
The concept of the world as a mirror suggests that our perceptions and experiences reflect our inner state. When we encounter negativity, it may indicate unresolved issues within...
What if every criticism you make of another person reveals something about yourself? By practicing two simple words—"That's me"—you can replace judgment with compassion, discover...
Many of the fears that parents have and try to hide from their children are not quite hidden. Emotional fears, financial, or any fear at all is picked up on by children. The good news is that fear is normal. We all have fears...
Charles Manson, who died Nov. 19, famously attracted a coterie of men and women to do his bidding, which included committing a string of murders in the late-1960s.
If you want to feel less pain, meditate more often. According to this new research, it can genuinely erase the emotional reaction to pain.
We Americans are caught in a web of our own creation. We celebrate the individual; we praise self-reliance. We have built our entire economic system on competition and striving, where we set ourselves one against the other... Is this truly the vision of who we want to be and what we wish to pass along to our children?
Conformity is how we have been conditioned to participate in a false sense of security which results in us being out of integrity with ourselves. On a deep, unconscious level we are aware of this and this awareness largely informs our suffering.
Although propaganda is as ancient as civilization itself, it has taken on a new force with the ubiquitous power of modern technology. This enhanced form of reality manipulation is used to influence us regarding the most trivial to the most momentous situations, and these persuasive techniques have far-reaching effects on the human condition.
Sometimes trying your best isn't enough; when the situation demands it, you need to be perfect.
Our culture is obsessed with happiness, but what if there's a more fulfilling path?
An elementary schoolteacher asked her students to describe in a sentence, “What is love?” The teacher received many humorous and touching answers, yet the one that moved her the most was: “Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.”
There is a large billboard sign along the Saw Mill River Parkway north of New York City that reads in big bold letters, “Prayer Works.” There are no other words on the sign. A man named Tom rode by that sign every single day on his way to work. He did not believe in prayer and he scoffed at the sign each day.
You will never be Jesus or Mother Teresa or Buddha or Pema Chodron or Buckminster Fuller or Eckhart Tolle (to name a few great teachers at random). You can only be yourself every moment. Discover who you are, and you find your own unique path along the way.
No sooner had I made the decision to spend several months in the mountains of northern New Mexico, than my inner knowingness guided me to the timeless, secluded village of Chimayo. Little did I suspect that this idyllic setting would host a gut-wrenching transformation..
Certain cognitive training via the computer may reduce the risk of dementia among older adults, researchers report. “…we found that those who received more training also gained a greater protective benefit…”
All of us have a genius within us. For Steven Spielberg, it was in film. All of us can experience the benefits of a purposeful life, yet few make it their life purpose to find the genius within themselves. This purpose includes...
Motivation, rather than habit, drives addictive behavior in the face of adverse consequences and constantly changing circumstances, new research suggests. “We’re challenging the definition of addiction as a habit…”
I ask you to think about this question: do you really ask for help when you need it? If the answer is yes, do you ask for assistance with the little things in your life or only the big-ticket items? And who or what defines little...
Things do not make us happy — and even if they could, living for happiness is not our objective. Living with purpose makes a person happier than trying to be happy!
No submarine could operate without its sonar, no driver without maps and signs. Yet most of us arrive at adulthood with many of our inner signal readers numbed out — or totally blocked.
In our lives there are two great sources of information for perceiving and navigating the world available to us: the rational, analytical way of the mind, and the soulful felt sense of the heart. Of these two, the conscious mind completely dominates our modern...
The longevity and genius of shamanism is that, in part, it is not hidebound to methodology. As such, shamanism is always metamorphosing as it evolves in response to the current, always-changing circumstances of the world (like the weather!).
Sadness is a natural reaction to hurts and losses. When not expressed constructively, it silently eats at your heart until joy has to pack its bags and move out.
The journey of Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' offers profound insights into healing...
Fostering a legacy of joy empowers individuals to inspire authentic self-expression in...
Junk emotions like anxiety, anger, and jealousy can hinder personal well-being and...
Awareness meditation shifts focus from traditional breath techniques to observing...
The exploration of precognitive dreaming reveals a profound interconnectedness within...
Negative moods can linger and affect overall well-being, but identifying their triggers...
A rare celestial formation is quietly reshaping the foundations of everything we know —...
You don't need a week in silence at a mountain retreat to feel spiritually alive again....