I’ve been saying that mindfulness will be (or should I now say “is”) the biggest wellness trend of this decade, an opinion I base, in no small part, on the slew of research studies I see linking mindfulness to a variety of beneficial health outcomes. But a new study that came out recently from Georgetown […]
In “One Simple Idea: How Positive Thinking Reshaped Modern Life,” author Mitch Horowitz traces the history of a simple idea that has pervaded human (and particularly, American) culture for centuries: We can create our reality with our thoughts. For Norman Vincent Peale, it was the “Power of Positive Thinking.” For Napoleon Hill, it was “Think […]
In a study of adult human development, Harvard psychiatrist George Vaillant once observed 30 adolescents from a group of 456 inner city youths, “whose childhoods were the most barren and the least conducive to continued adult development.” When children get a rough start in life, developmental psychologists predict that problems will follow them into adulthood. […]
