By Emiliana Simon-Thomas — 2018
Research reveals the steps you can take toward greater well-being, health, and productivity at work.
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In The Zen of Therapy, Mark Epstein weaves together two ways of understanding how humans can feel more settled in their lives.
As a professor of psychology at Yale and host of The Happiness Lab podcast, I've spent the last few years teaching simple science-backed tips to improve our well-being. I know the research inside out—but the giant dumpster fire of a year that was 2020 has had me struggling, too.
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The impact we can have on the world we share, if we choose to be kind in every circumstance or even in an occasional situation, simply can’t be overestimated.
Call it love, kindness, compassion for all beings—it’s the real elixir, the only one that truly transforms life for ourselves and others.
Dr. Doty shares a new science of kindness that will help all of us, physicians and patients alike, to see in new ways how and why kindness heals and even more importantly how being kind results in one living a longer and happier life.
Research-based tips that draw from the GGSC’s new website, Greater Good in Action.
Kindness is more than behavior. The art of kindness means harboring a spirit of helpfulness, as well as being generous and considerate, and doing so without expecting anything in return.
I wonder how the world would be, how we would live, how children would learn if we intentionally cultivated the spirit of being kind each day. In a world filled with fear and cruelty, we are itching for an outbreak of this characteristic.
Mary Ann Christie Burnside teaches us how the kindness we offer ourselves and others affects what happens in the very next moment.
People who experience kind and loving environments fare better.