Article #769
Your relationships are both an expression of yourself and an opportunity to learn and grow as a person. Your relationships should be the most important thing in your life. But are they?

Article #752
What does spirituality or being spiritual have to do with having an addiction? Are addictions really a spiritual manifestation outside of our control, or are they a free choice made by ego in our physical life?

Article #745
Research has proved that thinking and bodily movements are closely connected in the brain, and both enhance learning. However, many learning environments are created around the head and not the whole person.

Article #740
Researchers have found that people who write about their deepest thoughts and feelings surrounding upsetting events have stronger immunity and visit their doctors half as often as those who write only about minor events. Exciting research in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that writing about a stressful experience reduces physical symptoms in patients with chronic illnesses.

Article #735
One might think that all people have creative abilities since we are all children of the universe. And to push that point further, our ultimate creation is each other.

Post #723
Friday Video: TED Talk – Writer Andrew Solomon has spent his career telling stories of the hardships of others. Now he turns inward, bringing us into a childhood of adversity, while also spinning tales of the courageous people he’s met in the years since. In a moving, heartfelt and at times downright funny talk, Solomon gives a powerful call to action to forge meaning from our biggest struggles.

Post #713
Friday Video: TED Talk – At the 2008 Serious Play conference, designer Tim Brown talks about the powerful relationship between creative thinking and play — with many examples you can try at home (and one that maybe you shouldn’t).

Post #683
Friday Video: TED Talk – Fifteen-year-old Tavi Gevinson had a hard time finding strong female, teenage role models — so she built a space where they could find each other.

Post #654
Friday Video: TED Talk – Neuroscientist Michael Merzenich looks at one of the secrets of the brain’s incredible power: its ability to actively re-wire itself.

Article #610
Use a pattern interrupt to create a positive change in your life. Learn some of the common activities of successful people.