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Dissolving the Ego

By Jules Evans — 2017

You don’t need drugs or a church for an ecstatic experience that helps transcend the self and connect to something bigger

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The Man Who Found the Flow

“What is happiness?” asked psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. He found it in a state of mind beyond results and rewards and called it “the flow.”

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The ‘Flow State’: Where Creative Work Thrives

Many of us know what it’s like to be in a state of creative flow. Do you have to wait for inspiration to strike, or can you hack ‘the zone’?

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Gaining Happiness by Losing Yourself

A dissolution of body boundaries during meditation leads to greater happiness, says a new study. The results provide evidence that techniques which foster the loss of a sense of body boundary can help in the treatment of mood disorders.

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Social Isolation’s High Physical and Psychological Toll

Studies of polar researchers, astronauts, and others in isolation shed light on possible effects of social distancing, including increased forgetfulness, depression and heart attacks.

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