Life Changes
Healing Through Storytelling: Lessons from The Odyssey
The journey of Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' offers profound insights into healing...
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- Written by: Marie T. Russell
Nature does not pick sides: it simply gives every plant a fair chance to life. The sun shines on everyone regardless of their size, race, language, or opinions. Can we not do the same? Forget our old quarrels, our old grievances, our old prejudices, and start looking at everyone on earth as another person just like us...
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- Written by: Marie T. Russell, InnerSelf.com
The other day I was giving myself a "good talking to"… telling myself I really need to exercise regularly, eat better, take better care of myself… You get the picture. It was one of those days when I was determined to do better and was giving myself what was supposed to be a "pep talk"...
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- Written by: Tur?ya
Anytime we find ourselves suffering, in a state of misery, not experiencing our innate Unreasonable Joy, if we look at the mindstate we are in, it can be traced back to one of five poisons. It can be tricky because sometimes one state will masquerade as another state.
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- Written by: Kristin Neff
Why is it so hard to stick to resolutions that require us to make effective or lasting changes? I would argue the problem isn’t that we try and we fail –– the problem is how we treat ourselves when we fail.
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- Written by: Pierre Pradervand
There are many wishes people make for family and friends at the start of a new year: for health and success, for love and prosperity, for success in their studies or any special endeavour, the list is very long. However, there is one I wish to make for all readers of this...
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- Written by: Mark Griffiths
Research has shown that about half of all adults make New Year’s resolutions. However, fewer than 10% manage to keep them for more than a few months.
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- Written by: Joyce Vissell
Several days ago we attended the Cultural Awareness Program at Mt. Madonna School where our grandson is in first grade. His grade of ten adorable students reenacted a Buddhist story from Cambodia. In this story a single mother has three grown sons. She is very concerned that her sons do not help her or anyone else, and care only about money...
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- Written by: Sandra Knispel
As you set your New Year’s resolutions for 2021, consider a resolution to help others, says an expert on motivation.
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- Written by: Brandie Jefferson
This unusual—and painful—holiday season may fade from our collective memory, say researchers. That’s actually the best case scenario, they explain.
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- Written by: Melissa De Witte
You might find inspiration for handling the dark months ahead from Norwegians, according to Kari Leibowitz.
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- Written by: Bruce D. Schneider, Ph.D.
I remember once believing that guilt was a wasted emotion. Like all emotions, there is a place for guilt. A centered spiritual being, one who has moved past limiting beliefs, will feel guilty doing something that goes against who she is or wants to be.
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- Written by: Jude Bijou
Kindness shows itself in a lot of ways, such as acts of compassion, helpfulness, empathy, forgiveness, and caring. These gestures ignite feelings of love in both the recipients and ourselves. For maximum effect, kindness must be offered without expecting something in return, except for you...
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- Written by: Michael Rozansky
The holiday season usually has the lowest monthly suicide rates, but a new analysis shows that in the 2019-2020 holiday season, about half of the newspaper stories that connected the holidays and suicide contained misinformation falsely perpetuating the myth.
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- Written by: Diana Rowan
Many people suffer from Impostor Syndrome. Even those who have the highest academic, artistic, and business-related achievements suffer from feelings of unworthiness.
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- Written by: Kim Ward
Advice from the psychiatry department at the College of Human Medicine and College of Osteopathic Medicine at Michigan State University on how people can cope with depression through the holiday season.
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- Written by: Geshe Sonam Rinchen
Without reversing our present attitudes towards ourselves and others, we cannot attain enlightenment. We might think, "Well, so what?" But at the same time we don't want to remain in our present condition, experiencing unhappiness and suffering. By considering all these points carefully, we will realize that making this switch in our attitudes is possible.
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- Written by: Laurel Thomas
A new study analyzes the tricks of the trade that may contribute to impulse buying.
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- Written by: Max Witynski
Psychologists have often studied the “bright side” of morality—its role in promoting cooperation, for example. But the new research highlights morality’s “dark side.”
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- Written by: Pierre Pradervand
To say the world is going through some challenges is the understatement of the year. Never in history have we ever collectively faced such a challenge on a world level, despite the November 9, 2020 discovery of a hopefully efficient vaccine.
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- Written by: Bill Hathaway
Many children are willing to make personal sacrifices to punish wrongdoers—and even more so if they believe punishment will teach the transgressor a lesson, according to a new study.
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- Written by: Sophia La Banca
Currently, we are facing one of the worst pandemics in human history. Since our means to fight the virus are still limited, social distancing has been the best way to contain the crisis.
