What is flow? “The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times… The best moments usually occur if a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.” ~...
The PERMA model was designed by Martin Seligman and includes five core elements of psychological wellbeing and happiness. Seligman believes that these five elements can help people reach a life of fulfillment, happiness, and meaning. This model can also be applied to...
All people, at times, fill up with grief, spill over with joy, or tremble with anger. Most of us are taught early on to manage these emotions by sharing and reveling in the positive ones while repressing or apologizing for the negative ones. Either way, we learn not...
Scholars are deeply gratified when their ideas catch on. And they are even more gratified when their ideas make a difference —improving motivation, innovation, or productivity, for example. But popularity has a price: people sometimes distort ideas, and therefore fail...
So how are you feeling today? Part of the answer might have to do with what you had for lunch. Nutrition Did you know that the average American eats 52 teaspoons of sugar per day? And to go along with our sweet tooth, we’ve shifted to a diet of refined carbs,...
Robert Emmons, perhaps the world’s leading scientific expert on gratitude, argues that gratitude has two key components. “First,” he writes, “it’s an affirmation of goodness. We affirm that there are good things in the world, gifts and benefits we’ve received.” In...
