Mental health is an exceptionally big issue in today’s world. Not only are rates of depression higher than ever and rising, but there are more people than ever taking psychotropic medications. At the same time, the craziness in the world seems to be accelerating, adding evermore stress and feelings of disempowerment. In this environment it […]
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Dr. Jeanne Tsai, of Stanford University, talks about their studies on how cultural ideas and practices shape our emotions. In summary, she discusses shows that her culture and emotion lab has found that, in comparisons between the US and Chinese Culture that the US values and excitement and high arousal states and Chinese Culture values calm […]
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How to be Happy, or how to be Happier, is one of the key questions in life. And there are lots and lots of different answers out there, aren’t there? If you believe in the power of Manifestation then you believe that we are a being capable of directing all the powers of the Universe […]
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Resilience: Understanding the 3 Different Responses to DisasterBy Richard Bolstad, used with permission Psychologists list the three main types of response to disaster as 1) Resilience. People feel bad for a while, but they still manage to get good sleep, to eat healthily, and to plan successfully. They quickly get back to high level functioning in the […]
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Did you know that in cross-cultural studies, the Anglo-European culture comes up as the least resilient population in the world? One interesting explanation for this (research by Martin Seligman in the field of Positive Psychology) has drawn a link between the emphasis on building high ‘self-esteem’ in recent generations. It seems that where previous generations […]
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