You Are Not Who You Think You Are

We’ve all been conditioned to think about life and situations in certain ways. We may have been told that we are dominated by the left brain or the right brain, the “creative” or the “logical.” Some of us have been told that we have a Type A personality, that we are “competitive, aggressive, and ambitious” […]

When the Going Gets Good

We are so caught up in noticing our downfalls, that when asked to describe our experience of ease, we oftentimes get stumped. Why do we have so much trouble remembering the good times? It seems that we get fixated on what’s missing or what’s going wrong or what needs to be done that we zone […]

Keep Your Mind Active

We all know staying active is good for us, but how good is it? Bestselling author and psychiatrist, Dr. John J. Ratey explains just that in his book, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain. The book is jam-packed with research studies and science explanations for what makes physical activity vital to healthy […]