By David Futrelle
If you want to know how to use the money you have to become happier, you need to understand just what it is that brings you happiness in the first place.
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72% of entrepreneurs are directly or indirectly affected by mental health issues compared to just 48% of non entrepreneurs.
The neglected middle child of mental health can dull your motivation and focus — and it may be the dominant emotion of 2021.
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Although some 85 percent of Americans say they're pretty happy, the happiness industry sends the insistent message that moderate levels of well-being aren't enough: not only can we all be happier, but we practically have a duty to be so.
Most of us struggle at one time or another with an inability to feel what’s going on inside us at the level of emotion and energy flow. The technical term for this problem is “alexithymia.”
One of the most in-depth meditation studies to date shows that different practices have different benefits.
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.
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.
On the road to well-being, says James Baraz, embrace all your diverse feelings.