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What Are the Building Blocks of a Good Life?
These 5 elements can change your life for the better. I spent years studying damage, deficit and dysfunction in the human mind. I don’t remember once in my training hearing the words “joy,” “awe” or...
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The Mantra That Helps You Live Longer
The last thing we all need right now is another doom-and-gloom headline. So try this mantra as an antidote: Good times are coming. Think it. Believe it. Say it to yourself often – as often as it takes...
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What Is Positive Psychology?
A Brief Overview of the Field of Positive Psychology Positive psychology is one of the newest branches of psychology to emerge. This particular area of psychology focuses on how to help human beings...
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The Best Mindset To Preserve Memory And Judgement
The best mindset to ward off cognitive decline can be cultivated using exercises such as visualising your best possible self. Older adults with a more optimistic outlook experience fewer memory and...
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Optimism May Propel Women to a Longer Life
Upbeat outlook linked to lower risk of dying from cancer, heart disease and other causes, study says Women who generally believe that good things will happen may live longer. That’s the suggestion of a...
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Optimism May Propel Women to a Longer Life
Upbeat outlook linked to lower risk of dying from cancer, heart disease and other causes, study says Women who generally believe that good things will happen may live longer. That’s the suggestion of a...
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Conquering Negative Thinking
Here’s a New Year’s challenge for the mind: Make this the year that you quiet all those negative thoughts swirling around your brain. All humans have a tendency to be a bit more like Eeyore than...
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The Easiest Way To Kill Stress And Tension
The simple instruction that reduces stress and increases energy and optimism. The easiest way to kill stress and tension is: Don’t be so hard on yourself! People who are more compassionate towards...
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Fun Fact Friday
Optimistic people are 23% less likely to die of cancer and 30% less likely to die from heart diseases. Porphyrophobia is the fear of the color purple. When people feel physically cold, they seek out...
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5 Little Life Skills That Promise Success
Here’s good news: If you had a less-than-wonderful childhood, you can still have amazing success in life. How? It comes to do these little life skills. What makes us healthy, wealthy, and successful?...
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The Surprising Secret to Healthy Aging
You probably know that exercise and diet are important when it comes to aging well. But there is something else you control that can help you along: a positive attitude. Research shows more and more...
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10 Secrets to Living a Long, Healthy Life
Super agers are a group of older adults who have cognitive abilities on par with people decades younger than them. From what you should eat to how you should exercise and who you should spend your time...
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10 Ways to Become More Resilient
10 Ways to Become More Resilient Build Your Resilience and Coping Skills With These Tips Resilience can often mean the difference between handling pressure and losing your cool. Resilient people tend...
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10 Ideas to Help With Loneliness
Have you ever been lonely in a crowd? Have you ever been perfectly content all alone? Me too. And I have also suffered from loneliness. Loneliness is a complex mental and emotional phenomenon that has...
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Optimists For The Win: Finding The Bright Side Might Help You Live Longer
Good news for the cheery: A Boston study published this month suggests people who tend to be optimistic are likelier than others to live to be 85 years old or more. That finding was independent of...
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7 Elements of Wisdom That Can Make You Happier as You Age
Despite aches and pains, the wisdom that comes with age can make you happier. Despite more physical aches and pains as we age—the ‘paradox of aging’ suggests that older people are generally more...
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Here Are A Few Things To Feel Optimistic About Right Now
From vaccine advancement to cleaner air, these positives are worth focusing on amid this coronavirus pandemic. It’s easy to get sucked into a vortex of bad news right now, since the vast majority of...
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8 Everyday Tools For Fighting Depression
Eight exercise for developing serenity and calm. Teaching people to focus on positive emotions helps them deal with stress, new research finds. People were taught classic positive psychology exercises...
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11 Ways to Cultivate Resilience
“I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.” – Carl Jung Bouncing back is a concept well understood in the context of recovering from a sports injury. Following favorite players’...
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Negative Thinking Linked To Dementia In Later Life, But You Can Learn To Be...
Are you a pessimist by nature, a “glass half empty” sort of person? That’s not good for your brain. A new study found that repetitive negative thinking in later life was linked to cognitive decline and...
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