For example, if you're driving and a car crosses the center divider heading straight for you, you wouldn't think, Boy, am I anxious. This car is about to ram me head on. I don't know what's going to happen. This sure is frightening. Instead, you'd be completely present. Your survival …

Well, there are two answers. First of all, your people take less metformin than any other state. But there's really a much more important reason--your people are victims of the good food of Mississippi, this food you can't stop eating. Knowing that they can make a difference in their school …

Who's Going to Pay for All of This? We had thought that designing the study would be the hardest part of the battle. Once again, we were wrong. Stufft added, You have done so much to help the school help the environment and help the planet. This stance of service …

We were on our way to achieving our dream to make a drug that could protect against aging itself and all the diseases associated with it! And then the bottom fell out. A few months after we had received a total of $2. These days, the club is incredibly popular …

Talking about both resistance and resilience inspires young people. There are a lot of things wrong with the food system, Olugbala said. This is evidence that you don't have to just take it. We're in a space that is an actual point of resistance. Alternatives to Home and School Gardens …

Empowered by having real tools, the kids went to town. We next moved on to kale, the much-maligned hipster green. But we were going to do something a little different here. Do we eat flowers? When the kids looked confused, she said, We can eat these! Pick two yellow kale …

Handing each kid an empty egg carton, the instructor said, Find up to twelve different colors of flowers. Roaming the space, the kids kept a look out for a variety of colors. Among the green leaves, picking out purple, red, yellow, and white flowers took a keen eye and close …

Gardening is a holdover from my own childhood, when I spent hours upon hours messing around in the dirt. While my mom tended to her flowers, I gathered weeds to make magical potions. Entire worlds existed only in my head and backyard. As an adult I moved onto growing my …

They also talked about how they could use their skills to solve issues in their own neighborhoods. The researchers reported that the garden program seemed to help students feel more in control of their learning, particularly those who may have been told in the past that they weren't good at …

As parents actively listen and appreciate their children's point of view, children learn empathy. Having a stable, committed, and close relationship with an adult is key to developing personal resilience. Caring relationships can counterbalance stressful situations and help children learn how to manage stress. As children get older, authoritative parents …

Even if we could, it wouldn't be good for them. If we devoted everything to them, they would never gain independence or understand anyone outside of themselves. Similarly we can't be perfectly environmentally sustainable. It's not physically possible and would quickly lead to burnout. Collaborating with and relying on others …

This answer baffled me. No one else found themselves torn like I was? I wrestled with this for months. What were they doing right that I wasn't? One day as I read a parenting article, it hit me. I closed the article and blinked. Physically, their metabolic rates slowed over …

And they both work in your office. And have matching coffee mugs with love hearts on them. And the urge to throw staplers is irrepressible. And your heart still gently aches for them, despite all of this. Doesn't matter. Finding the strength to be elegant and detached (and forgiving too …

We should learn to harness the pressure we experience at work to motivate us, get organized, concentrate better, and work faster. By leaving the drudgery to digital technology, we can focus on the most creative and interesting aspects of our work--and of our lives. More than anything, productivity is a …

Like feelings, any belief can lead to joyous and productive emotions, but only if we are willing to reframe destructive beliefs so they support unity and oneness rather than separation and discord. There are six categories of misperceptions that lead us astray and damage our emotional borders. These involve issues …

David Allen, author of the bestselling Getting Things Done came up with a simple yet powerful strategy he calls the Two-Minute Rule. Given the number of entrepreneurs that brought it up during our research, it's well worth looking into. It's simple: if a task on your to-do list will take …

One triangle is right side up; These differing directions symbolize a choice: we can either rise to feelings of unconditional love and devotion or fall into despair and negativity. The twelve petals of the lotus represent the higher virtues, those that can lift us up: love, understanding, peace, harmony, empathy …

If the hurt comes, so will the happiness. It's just how it is. You were fine before you met your ex, and you will be fine again. You will get through this. You're already twenty minutes more through it than you were before reading this. You're so, so okay. Right …

Have a long hard think about what in that moment pushed you over the edge: were you craving excitement and attention? Are you on a path of self-discovery? Are you acting out because you want some drama, or to bring on a break-up? As for should you tell him, here …

If that is literally/ geographically impossible, and you cannot wait, then it's Skype or FaceTime. Yes, it will be hard. Yes, you still have to do it. Yes, really. Writing an email or letter might be a much easier way for you to communicate your feelings, but this situation extends …

I've been there. We all have. Whether you've been with them for a few months and it's only semiserious, or you've been living together for two years and just bought a VW together, it sucks. It flat-out sucks. The weighing-up, ruminating, discussing with friends, and self-torment leading up to a …

Pale Orange: lack of joy or play, repressed feelings, inability to feel feelings, lost creativity, fear of feelings. Someone else is holding your feelings or creative urges hostage. Dark Orange: unfelt feelings, bitterness, shame, disgust, guilt. Others' feelings are present; Yellow: mental activity, personal power, work success, optimism, ability to …

The big, bold bottom line here is that most people need to earn your attention, affection and investment. If you're making them artisanal cakes two weeks in, you're telling them in no uncertain terms that you're TOTALLY IN, and therefore robbing them of their primeval need to win you over' …

By reading this article and these exact words, you have simply followed a predetermined script. Or, you might want to think about other ways to reduce your worry. You might go back to article 6 for some ideas. We hope that reading The Kindness Advantage has given you and your …

In an ideal world, your friends and family will support you and want the best for you, but that's not always the way things work. Do the same thing with the chart you are holding in your hands. To improve near-sight move the charts further away. For far-sight and presbyopia …

Let your entire body relax. According to another study, the less activated a certain part of the frontal cortex is, the more the brain is inclined to wear rose-coloured glasses, as though the rationality knob had been turned anti-clockwise. A positive' brain foresees happiness, good health and success for itself …

Near vision test The pursuit of happiness is the most powerful motivator in the world, irrespective of social, geographical and geopolitical differences. It is clearly printed in the 1776 United States Declaration of Independence, although it is not mentioned in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 1972, after …

Suddenly everyone realized that the astigmatism had gone after just one exercise. It's also a well-known fact that physical exercise increases endocannabinoids and that sexual exercise - not indispensable to happiness and yet very useful - gives us dopamine, oxytocin and various endorphins. Finally, just to cover everything, there's also temperature to …

Apparently her subconscious mind agreed because a few days later she called me and very excitedly told me about the amazing progress she had made in just a few days. It always comes at the bottom of every list of the five principal senses. We call it touch, but that's …

To do so, before beginning any new task, ask yourself what you can do to complete it as quickly and as effectively as possible. Could you re-use or modify an existing template? Could you ask an experienced friend for advice? I am sure that you will want to go right …

Now, it's up to you to look closer at the beliefs you inherited and change them as and when necessary. School also influences your model of reality through the interaction you have with your teachers and classmates. No matter how neutral your teachers intend to be, they have their own …

Imagine one of your assumptions is that money is evil. If so, what are the chances you end up wealthy? Why would you want to be associated with anything evil? The internal power structure found his views too radical a departure from the then accepted scientific norm. However, Bates went …

In my article, Crush Your Limits, I reveal fifty assumptions that may be preventing you from living the life you want. You can learn more here. Where your assumptions come from The jury deliberated only for few minutes - Vision Training is not a crime. Margaret Corbett admonished the hundreds of …

Do you have big dreams but don't seem to make progress toward them? Do you wonder whether you should even try to chase these dreams? Perhaps you think you are deluding yourself? Vision is the most precious of our senses. You see the splendor of a sunset, you see the …

At times we would be surrounded by hundreds of deer. There is a real gentleness about the deer. All it's really doing is deepening the effect she's already had on you, which means that she's still getting away with stuff. Of course, there's also a really good chance that she …

However long it takes, be thoughtful about what you do. If you like to eat at your desk and keep chugging, great. The other attorney might object. The judge might yell at me. The jury might laugh, I might not know the answer, my client might be disappointed, I might …

The lesson I took from this was we are given what we need wherever we find ourselves to be. Montana was certainly one of my options if I was sure I wanted to be there. How much better would it feel to throw off all of that extra weight you've …

When your goal benefits you in only one way, it's much easier to quit, especially when the goal you set is something you want but do not need to do. When your goal benefits you in only one way, you get far fewer daily jolts of motivation from small successes …

The same trick works for an EPD. Either way, those first few hours will fly by. Even his voice mail message was cranky. For our first three meetings, I was convinced he hated me. He wasn't mean, but he wasn't friendly. He was just gruff. It never would have worked …

They don't say a picture is worth a thousand words for no reason. Imagine then, how powerful a daily gratitude practice would be, where you take a few minutes every night to reflect on the things, small or big, you are grateful for, things that perhaps you often take for …