In sales, people talk about the idea of “going first”, meaning that if you want someone to feel a certain emotion, you can feel it yourself. If you want someone to be happy, you can set an example by being

In many situations, we might find ourselves with a level of healthy stress - practicing yoga, in the gym, in our professional lives and even in our hobbies. The stress is good for us; it will help us grow.

As we go about our days, we might find ourselves lost in thought. We worry about whether we turned off the oven or the water heater, whether we will meet the deadline, whether people will like us. Perhaps

If you reflect on your life, you can probably remember many times when you said something you thought was rather innocent, and someone got very offended. Perhaps in the context there was a connotation

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When we begin some discipline, eventually, we might stop the practice. Our schedule gets too busy, or we feel too lazy, and we forget how important our meditation, exercise or reading was to us. The act

In an extract from his journal, lucid dreamer Robert Waggoner writes: ‘At this point, I truly become overwhelmed by the beauty and love in this lucid dream. I stand up and everyone looks my way. I say,

A prince lives in his palace for many years, enjoying fine wine, fine food and the company of beautiful, charismatic women. “I love life,” he says. “Life is so kind to me and offers me so many wonderful

Alistair Hart is a meditation teacher, showing students to learn how to be free of thoughts using knowledge from yoga. In this episode, Alistair tells his story about facing various health difficulties

Deep in sleep, you might gently enter a dream, finding yourself in a foreign land with no familiar surroundings. Nobody speaks your language, and you’re not sure how to get where you want to go. If you

Watching a Hollywood movie with an orchestral soundtrack and lines carefully crafted to make us feel emotions, it’s only natural that we do feel emotions. However, having that kind of awe, joy or elation

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Some people might tell you that if you have to try to be happy, maybe you’re not really happy. Perhaps this is a romantic idea of happiness, much like the romantic, Hollywood idea of love - that it doesn’t

At many moments in our lives, we will feel that someone has wronged us. We can choose to express our feelings, demand an apology, or we can choose to let it go. The worst thing we can do is what so many

In some ways, the shower is a cultural symbol, representing a period of the day that we have to ourselves, with few other responsibilities. Some people know the shower as the “argument simulator”. We get

So many of us have the character trait of being self-demanding or autoexigent, criticizing and judging ourselves harshly for making mistakes, not moving forward fast enough, not fulfilling our dreams.

We might look back at our pasts, wondering how we could have done such stupid things, made such big mistakes and faux pas. Of course, when we did those things, we didn't necessarily have the wisdom or

On this podcast, we talk about so many interesting techniques to calm the emotions or feel good about ourselves. For example, practicing mindfulness, savoring the moment, wrapping our cringey memories

You're in the gym. You get to the last rep in your last set of bench press. The weight feels heavy in your hands, and you're tempted to just put it down, and mark it as a failure. But something inside

In these unusual times, we might find ourselves feeling intense extremes of emotions. Perhaps we've found a way to feel really good most of the time, but when something goes against our expectations, we