I have a friend who is inclined to be negative. This person always sees the glass as half-empty (GHE). Being a glass-half-full (GHF) type, I often point out the upside to whatever situation is being discussed, only to be told that I’m not being realistic. Which brings me to today’s topics – that pessimism and…
Category: Healthy Living
The Gratitude Experiment
The pursuit of happiness through the experience of gratitude is one of my pet projects. Gratitude not only improves your level of happiness, it makes a difference in your physical health too. I recently came upon this youtube video by SoulPancake called An Experiment in Gratitude that illustrates how gratitude influences feelings of happiness. It…
Worried Sick: Healing Anxiety
It is often said that everything we feel originates from two basic emotions: love and fear. On an everyday basis, fear tends to manifest as worry. We medicalize this in the condition of anxiety. When you consider the number of people whose lives will be limited by anxiety at some point, the personal and social…
Detoxify Your Home and Garden
Are You Cleaning Or Polluting? Common household cleaning and garden products can make the air in and around your home thousands of times more polluted than the air outdoors in the world’s most polluted cities. These levels of pollution would trigger safety inspections in a workplace. Some scientists worry that long-term low-level exposure to chemicals…