Is mind-wandering the same as being on “autopilot,” without being conscious of what you are doing? There seem to be differing perspectives on this question. We’ve probably all had this…...

Dramatic pause – Renee Zellweger says to Tom Cruise in the mega-hit movie, Jerry McGuire; “You complete me.” This, in my opinion, was the worst line in movie history, almost ruining…...

Neuroscientists discovered the phenomenon that your brain mimics perfectly as recently as the 1980s. The scientific explanation for this is what is are called mirror neurons.

Recently, I received a really interesting question from a participant in my Foundations of Well-being course. This person had heard that stress itself is normal and that it is our…...

Artificial intelligence will be used to take over our jobs if our jobs involve rules, pattern recognition, non-cognitive interpretation, and repeatable tasks. While machine learning is still in its infancy,…...

A comfort habit is anything you do to feel good when you were feeling bad. A cookie, a drink, a pill, a cigarette, a credit card, an electronic device, or…...

You are a perfectly designed success machine. This is not “new age” psychobabble. Your brain is naturally and automatically success-driven. You continuously and flawlessly create and recreate your circumstances through the predominant images in your mind. Your current reality…...

Every transformation in history has offered great opportunities and unforeseen mental, emotional, and physical challenges. The epic human transitions: Stone Age – agricultural age – industrial age – the information…...

I recently attended a psychology conference where the word compassion was spoken every few minutes. The speakers nodded to science, but their emphasis was on critiquing society’s lack of compassion. The…...

The idea of how you see yourself is formed in childhood. We form this idea of ourselves from the responses and interactions we receive from our parents, grandparents or aunts…...