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How Happiness Improves Heart Health
New research shows how a positive attitude can improve your ability to rebound from heart disease.
Revolutionary Act 15: Raise Your Sights
Don’t get sucked in by obsessions with six-pack abs and buns of steel. Don’t play “compare the bodies.” Fulfill your best-self vision.
Unpacking the Challenges of Social Health in the Digital Age
Americans are more digitally connected than ever before, yet numerous studies show that we are increasingly unhappy. Why is that? Dallas Hartwig and Pilar Gerasimo help us unpack the challenges of social health in the digital age.
Strategies to Cope With Cyberbullying
Cyberbullying is designed to trigger stress and anxiety. Here’s how to keep your cool when things heat up online.
How to Trust Your Instincts
Paid attention to your gut feelings lately? Maybe you should. Instinctive thinking is finally getting the respect it deserves.
Use Technology More Mindfully With “Contemplative Computing”
Do you control your devices or do they control you? A more conscious approach can help you get the most out of technology.
Staying Human in the Digital Age: Q&A With Manoush Zomorodi
The podcast host and author shares her top insights on maintaining a healthy relationship with technology.
Kids & Digital Dementia
Research shows our growing use of digital devices can affect sleep quality, obesity risk, aggressive behavior and “digital dementia”.
Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation
Pioneering neurobiologist Daniel J. Siegel, MD, explains how we can train our brains to improve our well-being.
Turf Wars: How Special Interests Manipulate Online Activism to Influence Health Narrative
How special interests concoct “grassroots” movements online, mobilizing mobs that help shape the public conversation about health.
Social Impacts of the “Always-On” Phone Culture
A new poll shows the changing social norms around cell-phone use and the challenges of maintaining mobile-phone etiquette.
9 Strategies to Create a More Civil, Loving Marriage
Why are we so rude to our spouses, yet courteous, kind, and patient with complete strangers? Paying attention to good manners and small niceties may be the key to sustaining the vitality of your relationships.
Revolutionary Act 14: Leverage Your Big “Whys”
Know the specific reasons your health matters to you. Write them down where you’ll see them daily.
How Introverts and Extroverts Can Talk to Each Other
Introverts and extroverts often struggle to communicate effectively. Here are some strategies that can help them connect.
The Undefeated Mind
Discover five big ideas that will help you develop a state of mind that sees all problems as solvable.
Going to Extremes: Patricia Moreno
After decades of desperate attempts to transform her body, Patricia Moreno discovered the key to lasting change lay elsewhere — in her own heart and mind.
On Faith and Fitness
Glutes and godliness. Biceps and the Bible. On first view, fitness and faith may seem a strange match. But for many people, spiritual motivations bring deeper meaning to their health and fitness pursuits, and prove to be a positive, pivotal factor in supporting them.
What We Can Learn From the Four Happiest Places on Earth
Taking cues from the world’s happiest places and people, you might find a simple shift in your attitude could make all the difference in unlocking your own true bliss.
5 Ways to Maintain and Spread Healthy Habits
By now we’ve heard that obesity is contagious. Well, the flip side of that is that healthy habits are contagious, too. Here’s how to build and share those habits with everyone around you.
How Your Spending Habits Reflect Your Values and Support Your Energy
How our most intimate sense of self and our use of money reflect each other.
The Myth of Happiness — and How to Be Truly Happy
Want long-lasting joy? Shifts in your mindset can make all the difference.