Happinessinthisworld - happinessinthisworld.com - Happiness in this World « Happiness in this World
General Information:
Latest News:
How To End A Friendship 26 Aug 2013 | 03:00 am
Photo: Diego Torres Silvestre When I was in first grade, my teacher once called the class together and said, “Glen is feeling badly because no one will play with him. Will anyone here play with Glen?...
Time Anxiety 19 Aug 2013 | 03:00 am
Photo: Rob and Stephanie Levy Of all the things there are to be anxious about—of all the things I’ve ever been anxious about—time, in one way or another, has probably been the most pervasive. To star...
The Truth About Morality 12 Aug 2013 | 03:00 am
Photo: Markus Lütkemeyer Though philosophers and religious authorities have debated the question of morality (i.e., what constitutes good and evil) for centuries, Buddhism offers a relatively straigh...
How To Choose A Mate 5 Aug 2013 | 03:00 am
Photo: Serge Melki When searching for a mate, most of us carry around a list of criteria or qualities that we tell ourselves we’re looking for. A brief perusal of any Internet dating site yields many...
The Effective Use Of Silence, Redux 22 Jul 2013 | 03:00 am
Photo: Jule_Berlin When I was a resident I was given the opportunity to participate in a series of seminars designed to improve my teaching skills. In one discussion group the discussion leader aske...
Ten Things Proven To Make You Live Longer 15 Jul 2013 | 03:00 am
Photo: torbakhopper Patients often come to me seeking advice about what they can do to live longer. The number of things that have been proven to extend life, however, remains shockingly small. What ...
Would You Take This Drug? 8 Jul 2013 | 03:00 am
Photo: See-ming Lee Imagine there was a practice that I could teach you that would reduce your relative risk of having a heart attack by nearly 40%. Imagine also that if you carried out this practice...
How Optimism Can Be Learned 1 Jul 2013 | 01:30 am
Optimism, it turns out, isn’t just defined as the tendency to expect things to turn out better than probability predicts, nor is pessimism defined only as the tendency to expect things to turn out mor...
The True Cause Of Cruelty, Redux 23 Jun 2013 | 10:38 pm
Photo: Pink Sherbet Photography In seventh grade I once found myself in the school gym locker room changing before class when a group of my classmates began bullying a boy named Pino for having breas...
The Biggest Mistake Patients Make 17 Jun 2013 | 03:00 am
Photo: Sarah Reid The biggest mistake patients make isn’t what you think. It isn’t turning down tests or treatments their doctors recommend. Nor is it deciding not to take the medicines their doctors...
