Here’s a short video of Tal Ben-Shahar, Psychology Lecturer at Harvard University, posted on the Big Think blog on “Five Ways to Become Happier Today.” While I tend to believe that “happiness” is our original state, our “pre-existing condition” that gets messed with by some nasty thought viruses and other harsh environmental factors, this...
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Psychology
Five Ways to Greater “Happiness”
“Poverty Goes Straight to the Brain”
Sociology + Biology: Poverty, which is created by economic, political, social and cultural forces in society, produces physiological stresses leading to the “income-achievement gap” between poor and middle class white boys and girls, with negative effects lasting through adulthood, according to this new study. If you always reasoned or suspected this, or felt the...
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Consciousness-in-Action Around the World
The last few months have been quite interesting: meeting people, making new friends, reconnecting with old ones, exploring possibilities for extending the work of consciousness-in-action around the world. Quite literally. Well, just about, anyway: developing relationships with colleagues and co-conspirators from Vancouver (British Columbia) to Hawai’i to Palmela (Portugal) to Salvador (Brazil) to Copenhagen...
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Social Psychosynthesis Workshop
On Sunday, March 22, I’ll be offering Social Psychosynthesis: An Invitation to Consciousness-in-Action, a one-day workshop. Psychosynthesis founder, Roberto Assagioli, pointed to the need to extend his work beyond the individual to the social dimension of life. In this workshop, I will share insights and applications of Psychosynthesis’ basic concepts and principles to consciousness-in-action, this...
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