This Is How To Be Productive Without Being Miserable: 8 Proven Secrets
ere's plenty of good advice on how to be productive. But most of it makes you feel like you need to turn yourself into a machine. You don’t want to be Robby the Robot. Here's the thing: you often don't need help with the doing part. You know what to do. Sit down and finish the damn task. But you don't. Why? Often it's about feelings. What really gets in your way? "It scares me." "I don't feel like it right…
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Neuroscience Of Meditation: How To Make Your Mind Awesome
is meditation just another fad that pops up from time to time like bell-bottom jeans? Nope. Research shows it really helps you be healthier, happier and even improves your relationships. From The Mindful Brain: The MBSR program brought the ancient practice of mindfulness to individuals with a wide range of chronic medical conditions from back pain to psoriasis. Kabat-Zinn and colleagues, including his collaborator Richard Davidson at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, were ultimately able to demonstrate that…
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Neuroscience Of Mindfulness: How To Make Your Mind Happy
erybody is talking about mindfulness... but nobody seems to be able to explain clearly what the heck it really is. Ask people and you'll hear, "Umm, be in the moment and SOMETHING SOMETHING SOMETHING, uh, meditation." But is it merely the latest fad? Actually, no. And there isn't some looming deathmatch between mindfulness and neuroscience, between East and West. They're actually on the same page. Research shows mindfulness works. It can help you be happier and help you reduce stress. But nobody's ever explained it…
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Neuroscience Reveals The Easy Ritual That Will Make You Happy
u drastically underestimate the power of touch. Actually, I'm wrong... The research says we're really big on touching -- our phones, that is. People touch their phones 85 times a day. But how many times a day do you touch someone else? Probably not nearly as often. That's kinda messed up, don't ya think? You need to touch people more. It will improve your life. Sound like Hallmark-Card-bumper-sticker-hippie-nonsense? Wrong. What happens when babies are deprived of touch? It can screw them up for life. As David…
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This Is How To Get Healthy: 6 Research-Backed Secrets
u want to know how to get healthy? Eat better, exercise and get more sleep... But you don't need me to tell you that. You know that. So is health just a matter of biology? Nope. Research shows living well is more than marathons and what you put in your mouth. So let's learn the health-boosting stuff that nobody talks about. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "The first wealth is health." But I'm a nerd, so that's not specific enough for me... What's your health really worth? Economists say it's…
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This is How To Find Happiness: 6 Proven Secrets From Research
all want to know how to find happiness. And the internet is chock full of advice on how to get there -- but most of it is based on studies done on a bunch of college sophomores. Maybe, just maybe, we shouldn't trust our 19 year-old selves when it comes to the most important thing in life... So what produces happiness all around the world, among people young and old, across the most varied backgrounds imaginable? I figured I'd call an…
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This Is The Fun Way To Easily Improve Your Life, Backed By Research
u don't laugh enough. Yes, humor can improve your life. Not too surprising, you say? Here's the problem: you treat humor like a nice thing that happens, oh, whenever. But scientific research is showing giggles, guffaws and jokes are far too important to be left to chance. We're gonna learn the best ways to use humor to make you happier, healthier, more successful at work and even to improve your relationships. First, let's learn the neuroscience of why we laugh. Why are funny…
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This Is The Best Way To Motivate Yourself To Exercise: 4 Proven Secrets
rkout motivation. You don't have any. You know exercise is good... and you still don’t do it. You're not alone. We all want a magic pill that makes us smarter, happier, and better looking. Good news is the magic pill is here. Bad news is it's exercise. Time to dump a bucket of solve on this problem and make you awesome. And we'll do it by listening to your favorite music, hanging out with friends and taking lessons from Seinfeld. Sound good?…
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