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Alternative Therapies For Cancer

1 Comment 22 September 2011

This is a guest infographic by Jackie Clark. Jackie is an alternative therapy advocate for the Mesothelioma Cancer AllianceNowadays more cancer patients turn to various forms of alternative therapies to help aide them with pain, and other side effects associated with conventional cancer treatments. This infographic illustrates how alternative options can help these patients.

Learning for Joy

7 Comments 15 September 2011

One obvious reason to pursue the joy of learning is for one to qualify oneself for better employment. Economic statistics state that educated workers with a bachelor's degree in the United States earn around 60 percent more than those with a high school diploma.Adding to the happiness of extended education, the economic benefits of doing so are limitless. While money is a positive thing, it does not always equate to happiness for individuals [...]

How to Feel Good Without Breaking the Bank

10 Comments 15 April 2011

The feel-good sensation after you give someone on the street a cup of hot chocolate on a chilly morning actually has a name: the “helper’s high.” According to The New York Sun, psychologists say that charitable actions induce endorphin activity in the brain—these are the body’s natural “happy hormones” that are released when we exercise or eat chocolate.[...]

Radical Acceptance

8 Comments 31 March 2011

Individuals who have undergone radical acceptance describe the experience as being liberating, as if seeing clearly after drowning in a thick fog. The term refers to a skill taught within dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), originally developed by Marsha M. Linehan to treat individuals with borderline personality disorder. [...]

15 Ways To Be Happier

8 Comments 06 January 2011

Express love and gratitude often. What you say could intensify what you feel. So when you say “I love you” often, it becomes a reaffirmation as much as it is just words. The same with saying “thank you” makes you happy. Speaking the words open that door of realization why you’re grateful, and then increase your appreciation for the kind or generous act toward you. [...]

Learned Helplessness And The Road To Recovery

17 Comments 30 September 2010

Three groups of dogs were involved, all of them in harnesses, Group One being in the harnesses for a short period and later released. For dogs in Group Two, pressing on a lever could stop the electric shock administered to them, but dogs in Group Three had no control over the duration of the shock. [...]

How To Focus In The Face Of Distractions

15 Comments 10 September 2010

I would eventually learn that the art of tuning out was a skill, long years in development with the requirement of specialized equipment – namely, children. I have three children. Noisy, argumentative distractions that have a keen sense of the perfect moment to hit me up for some money or ask for a privilege that would have normally been denied. [...]

How To Integrate New & Joyful Beliefs into Your Life

13 Comments 31 July 2010

There are a couple of ways to go about directing your focus which can help you achieve the integration of a new beliefs so that they feel natural to you. The ways we wish to share with you today give you the option of going about this integration smoothly and slowly over a period of time, or more quickly in a shorter period of time.[...]