By Jamie Chamberlin — 2014
What’s the key to a smooth retirement? Tend to your psychological portfolio as much as your financial one, researchers say.
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In McLaren’s view, we typically perceive emotions as problems, which we then thoughtlessly express or repress. She advocates a more mindful approach, where we step back and see our emotions as sources of information.
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I don’t know what happened to emotions in this society. They are the least understood, most maligned, and most ridiculously over-analyzed aspects of human life.
In one school of popular reasoning, people judge historical outcomes that they think are favorable as worthy tradeoffs for historical atrocities. The argument appears in some of the most inappropriate contexts, such as discussions of slavery or the Holocaust.
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
Some of these questions might pinch a little, but that’s what I want these power questions to do. Otherwise, they are useless.
We’ll be better prepared for life’s challenges if we cultivate these 12 inner strengths.
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Psychologist Rick Hanson discusses how to strengthen our capacity for wisdom, peace, and enlightenment.
Our world is in the midst of an emotional meltdown. People are restless, volatile, our tempers about to blow. Why is rage so rampant? What is the solution?
To the list of identities Black people in America have assumed or been asked to, we can now add, thanks to this presidential election season, “Obama’s people” and “the African Americans.”
It’s no wonder we’re afraid of getting older. The so-called problem of aging is trumpeted everywhere we turn. We hear the message that aging is a great social ill, a necessary evil, a drain on society, and an affront to aesthetics.