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Expert Tips and Strategies to Stay Focused During Workouts
Zoning out on the treadmill? Daydreaming while you lift? That lack of focus could be undermining your workouts. Take some advice from the pros on how to tame your wandering mind.
The Upside of Downtime
The scientific case for doing nothing more often — and its surprising rewards.
How to Create Fearlessly
Resistance and doubt are just part of the creative experience. Here are 10 tips to help you get past them.
A Will To Serve: Major Dan Rooney
For Major Dan Rooney, there is no higher calling — and nothing more satisfying — than helping military families in need.
Rewrite Your Reality
Does your story of who you are and what you can do make you stronger — or hold you back?
Habit-Changing Vacations
New-experience getaways that help you leave old behaviors behind.
Revolutionary Act 10: See the Bigger Picture
Yes, this is about you, but your well-being also affects everyone and everything around you. When you get healthier, everybody benefits.
How to Detox Your Life, Save Money, and Change the World
What’s best for our health and the planet can also be great for our bank accounts. All it takes is shifting how we spend our money and our time.
4 Simple Questions to Uncovering Happiness
Elisha Goldstein shares his four tips for uncovering happiness.
How Practicing Compassion Boosts Happiness and Well-Being
Top-tier research confirms that being compassionate is good for us, altering our physiology to boost not just happiness but well-being.
14 Strategies to Help Break Free from Workaholism
For many Americans, the world of work feels a bit like an endless ride — one that’s spinning too fast and feeling more than a little out of control. But just how and why did we get strapped into this craziness? Understand the machinery of your own workaholic tendencies and you’ll be one step closer to switching gears — and maybe even putting on the brakes.
Compassion and Health: An Interview With James Doty, MD
How compassion and social connection have a powerful effect on our health, happiness, and well-being.
Revolutionary Act 9: Safeguard Your Juju
Don’t let yourself get run down, depressed, negative, or reactive. That’s when immunity drops, inflammation rages, and unhealthy tendencies strike.
17 Common Fitness Excuses and Tips on Overcoming Them
Don’t hit the snooze button on your fitness goals. Here are 17 of the most common obstacles to exercising — and expert advice on how to overcome them.
How to Begin a Daily Meditation Practice
Ten simple tips for making meditation a part of your life — starting now.
How to Make a Vision Board
Clarify your direction for this year (and beyond) with this inspiring art project.
The Art of the Relapse: How to Stop Falling Back Into Old Habits
Instead of feeling like a failure when you fall back into old, unhealthy behaviors, consider embracing your relapses as mile markers on your route to success.
Why Thinking Positively Doesn’t (Always) Work
How to stay emotionally authentic — without becoming a grouch.
Digital Detox
Experience Life’s social-media specialist unplugs her devices and enjoys some old-school fun at adult summer camp.
10 Benefits of Meditation for the Brain and Body
The influences of meditation stretch from head to toe, positively affecting your brain, heart, and immune system, and helping with chronic pain, insomnia, and depression. We’ve rounded up some intriguing recent research showing that meditation is a powerful ally for mind, body, and spirit.
6 Ways to Discover Real Gratitude
Why you should not overdo gratitude exercises, plus five more tips on how to nurture authentic appreciation.