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How to Meditate: 5 Beginner Keys on Learning the Practice
In today’s fast-paced society, it seems like we’re all trying to find a way to slow down and enjoy each moment. It can be challenging at times to carve out time for ourselves.
Plus, it’s hard to take a minute or two to notice what’s going on around us and enjoy our surroundings. Many people find that meditation is the key to being present in their daily lives.
Relationship Dissatisfaction: 5 Ways You Can Beat It
Every relationship goes through highs and lows. No partnership is perfect. While these might sound like nothing more than uplifting, motivational sayings, there’s a lot of truth to them. But when your connection feels like it’s in a rut, it’s easy for relationship dissatisfaction to take hold.
When you cling to those feelings for too long, it can start to cause more problems between you and your partner.
Your Tinder Date: 5 Things to Pay Attention To
In the past decade, the Internet has completely revolutionized dating. While some people still find their relationships through chance encounters or blind dates, dating apps such as Tinder have made it easy (and fun!) to meet potential new partners. However, these dates don’t always go as planned. Sometimes, you may find that the intriguing person you met online is a bit lackluster in real life. Or, they might not even look like their profile picture in the slightest!
Stress Management: The Role of Family and Friends
When life gets stressful, your first inclination may be to turn to family and friends for support and encouragement. When the tables are turned, you are usually available to support them as well.
Even so, pinning all your stress and worries on your friends and family may become exhausting over time, for them and for you.
Is People-Pleasing Stressing You Out? Consider These Tips
Pleasing people fosters happiness and contentment; people-pleasing promotes stress.
But wait… aren’t those the same things?
Far from it. One is a healthy behavior, the other an unhealthy one. One comes from a place of abundance, the other from a place of deficiency.
It’s all about purpose. How so?
7 Meaningful New Year's Resolutions to Improve Your Health and Happiness
We’re all familiar with the most common New Year’s resolutions. Losing weight, getting in shape, and earning or saving more money all top the list.
And these are reasonable goals to have. After all, it’s essential to maintain and improve our health and be financially responsible.
Mental Health Gifts to Give Yourself this Holiday Season
The holiday season is a season of giving. You likely pour out your time, energy, money, and support to a host of loved ones and activities meant to fulfill the annual promise of goodwill and merriment. Yet, you, like so many others, may feel challenged to achieve and maintain a healthy mental balance through all of the feasting and fun.
How to Draw Healthy Boundaries With Your Family This Holiday Season
How well do you draw healthy boundaries with family, especially around the holidays?
Tradition and the marketing blitz from Halloween through the first of January are very clear: gathering, giving, and goodwill are the reasons for the season… whether you like it or not!
The Path to Happiness: 3 Key Ways to Show Kindness and Generosity
Giving from the heart brings happiness. That’s a universal truth.
One of the underlying qualities that motivates us to give is kindness—a quality that takes an active interest in the welfare of others.
How to Survive the Holidays and Family Gatherings
The holidays are here and we may need some strategies to help us through at times.
Why? Because right on the heels of the warm, cozy seasonal feelings come performance anxiety, overblown expectations, and… people.
The next six weeks will likely be packed full of interacting, engaging, giving, partying, visiting, and hosting friends and family.
Love on Your Brain? Here's What's Actually Happening in Your Head
Love on the brain? It’s true! While there’s lots of talk about love as a matter of the heart, it turns out our brain is the real cupid. Those arrows that we imagine piercing our hearts with affection are actually a healthy dose of neurochemicals.
Of course, not many rom-coms will tell you that!
Improve Your Communication as a Couple: Speak the Language of Love
Good communication is the foundation of healthy and happy relationships. At times, though, some things get lost in translation. To improve your communication, recognize that each of us has a dominant love language. Becoming fluent in your partner’s love language is the ideal path toward understanding, growth, and evolution.