Joy Lab
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Discover How Play Can Improve Your Mental Health
Explore how adopting a more playful attitude toward life can boost your mental health.
You Do Not Need to Be Fixed
The case for focusing more on what is working instead of what isn’t.
Make Room for More Fun!
How to overcome the “shoulds” and live a more joyful life.
The Promise of Permeability
How to soften your defenses so you can let feelings in — and out again.
Why Inspiration Is the Engine of Joy
Explore the five traits of this emotion and insights for tapping into the transcendence and interconnectedness of it.
How Curiosity Changes Your Mind
Henry Emmons, MD, and Aimee Prasek, PhD, explain how thinking creatively can help us create new neural pathways in the brain.
How Humans Are Wired for Compassion
Our brains are wired to care for others, even when it may seem like too much to ask.
Savoring: The Key to Forgotten Happiness
When we fully notice and appreciate something, we create a pathway to joy.
Uncovering the Illusion of Separation
Do you feel cut off from others and even yourself? When we begin to understand our interconnectedness to everything, our natural powers of healing thrive.
The 7 Roots of Resilience
Stay steady through hard times with these seven tips.
The 4 Pillars of a Joyful Life
Two integrative-health experts offer tips on how to overcome depression and anxiety — and rediscover your joy.