The Alchemy of Emotions

I have come to understand feelings in a lively and joyful way, through my meditation and healing experiences. The inquiry process began, though, during a difficult phase in my life. A few years ago, I was boiling with a lot of anger – with my fiance who had just...

The Neuroscience of Why Gratitude Makes Us Healthier

–by Ocean Robbins, Oct 30, 2013  (Excerpted from DailyGood.org) Our world is pretty messed up. With all the violence, pollution and crazy things people do, it would be easy to turn into a grouchy  old man without being either elderly or male. There’s...

The 16 Habits of Exuberant Human Beings

Martin Seligman, the father of positive psychology, theorizes that while 60 percent of happiness is determined by our genetics and environment, the remaining 40 percent is up to us. In his 2004 Ted Talk, Seligman describes three different kinds of happy lives: The...

Wabi Sabi

Wabi-sabi The crack on the bookshelf in the corner, with chipped olive-tinted paint. The ladybug with just one brown spot, flitting through the grass. The young mother, holding her child close; with one breast gone, due to cancer. The ten year old boy who can’t...