by Lynn Soots | August, 2015 | Education, Health, Positive Psychology, self-development
“Happiness doesn’t come from tomorrow, it comes from today. Your life is what’s happening right now.” – Stephen M. Pollan Living in the present is Mindfulness. More precisely, it is living in the moment while non-judgmentally observing the events around you...
by Lynn Soots | August, 2015 | Health, Positive Psychology, self-development
Life is Hard Deny it, complain about it, wish it weren’t so, but the fact is, sometimes life is hard. Even the Buddha told us “life is suffering.” OK, so maybe he wasn’t exactly referring to the hopeless feeling you get being stuck in a dead-end job, or the nausea...
by Lynn Soots | July, 2015 | Education, Health, self-development
A choice Please don’t think you are about to read how wonderfully rosy the world is and we should all just put on a happy face and dance through the streets; although street dancing does sound appealing. There are times when I would much rather pull the covers up over...
by Lynn Soots | July, 2015 | Positive Psychology, self-development, Strengths
My oldest left for university last year. Although the mother hen in me feared that I would be nostalgic for long gone times and spend my nights shedding tears in silence, I was pleasantly surprised to see how well I actually coped. However, as time wore on, I began to...
by Lynn Soots | July, 2015 | self-development
Rewards are blood-sucking vampires of happiness The rewards that we give ourselves as fame, fortune, position, clout, acquisitions, trophies, connections, and social network friends, and of course money provide only short lived gratification and happiness. These...
