Today’s post is a contribution from my friend Souad Tello, who is a Syrian refugee…
Tag: Mental Health
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
People tend to think of meditation and exercise as contrasting experiences. When you meditate, you…
We possess the keys to the prisons that hold us captive.
Recall a few of the most beautiful experiences of your life. Maybe your wedding day…
The benefits of fasting are myriad. And many of them are backed by research. But…
Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck. Dalai…
Your terrible job is the dream of every unemployed. Your house is the dream of every homeless. Your smile is the dream of the depressed. Your health is the dream of the ill. Your lifestyle is the dream of somebody else. Don’t let difficult times make you forget your blessings.
Fasting is the most powerful tool for personal growth I have ever experimented with. And…
The phoenix in Greek mythology is a bird that periodically died and came back to…
How many times have we reacted in the heat of the moment and lived to…
In my last article, I made the case that deep breathing is the ultimate self-control.…
Stress disrupts a physical process as fundamental to life as breathing. When human beings get…
I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer.
I talk a lot about sleep on this site because sleep is vital for human…
Take someone who doesn’t keep score, who’s not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he’s free.
Even experienced meditators can’t always articulate how meditation works. I used to fall in that…
Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.
Fighting reality only creates suffering. While pain is inevitable in life, suffering is optional. And suffering is what happens when we refuse to accept the pain in our lives.
I define greatness as the joy of self-mastery, which is commonly termed fulfillment. How often…
Most people see helping others as a necessary but undesirable fact of community life. We…
He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.
If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.
There are few things in daily life I resent more than trying to fall asleep…
Man is affected not by events but by the view he takes of them.
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
Per his Wikipedia page, Jordan Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist and a professor of…
The most important conversation you will ever have is the conversation you have with yourself.
Music is the quickest way to induce feelings of happiness, sadness, anger, or excitement. Today…
When there is no enemy within, the enemy outside can do you no harm.
Light is one of the most important factors influencing sleep quality. Our body naturally regulates…
Forgive yourself for not knowing then what you know now.
According to recent data from the World Happiness Report and General Social Survey (link), Americans…
The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what’s there: all of it.
You are killing yourself for a job that would replace you in a week if you dropped dead. Take care of yourself.
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
I am not a morning person. I get most of my work done at night…
Magnesium is one of those super minerals you’ve probably already heard your mother talk about.…
Love is vital to the survival and thriving of the human species. Without love, babies…
Recently I noticed my thoughts trending in the wrong direction. Challenging life circumstances seemed to…
Our culture is littered with misconceptions about sleep. I often hear things like “If you…
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard the cause of depression described as…
It seems like every month a new challenge makes its waves across the internet. Some…
Happiness is impermanent, like everything else. In order for happiness to be extended and renewed, you have to learn how to feed your happiness. Nothing can survive without food, including happiness; your happiness can die if you don’t know how to nourish it. If you cut a flower but you don’t put it in some water, the flower will wilt in a few hours. Even if happiness is already manifesting, we have to continue to nourish it.
Zinc is one of those minerals you’ve probably already heard your doctor talk about. Zinc…
The human brain is hard-wired for visualization. It constantly imagines how future events will play…
On this blog, I’ve written about celebrities who practiced semen retention and documented a potential…
The Gifts of Imperfection is one of my all-time favorite books. And I know I’m…
The old saying, “You snooze, you lose,” may have a much deeper meaning than any of us realizes. When you delay waking up until you have to–meaning you wait until the last possible moment to get out of bed and start your day–consider that what you’re actually doing is resisting your life. Every time you hit the snooze button, you’re in a state of resistance to your day, to you life, and to waking up and creating the life you say you want… It’s as if you’re saying, I don’t want to live my life, at least not to the fullest.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention
Elsewhere on the site I have cited scientific evidence demonstrating the health benefits of meditation.…
