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...
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,...
Why Do We Laugh? Laughter can be so healing, it seems; “Laughter is the best medicine,” the saying goes. But, is that really true? Does humor serve some adaptive purpose? And if it’s good for us, why do we find some things funny while others leave us flat? For answers,...
Meaning is not just part of happiness but, in some ways, a different form of it. We strive to find meaning in much the same way that we strive to be happy, although the path to each is very different. In his philosophical tome Meanings of Life, Roy F. Baumeister...
