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Better Sex Quickly—Just Say This One Magic Word
When tongues are dancing, do you find yourself suddenly tongue-tied?Many lovers do. It’s often difficult to say anything in the throes of passion, let alone ask for changes in the way your partner...
View ArticleHeroes Who Break the Mold
Charles Ramsey could hardly have predicted the online juggernaut he set into motion last week when he gave a Cleveland TV station an off-the-cuff interview. “I barbecue with this dude. We eat ribs and...
View ArticleLove, Ambition, Happiness, Pets and Nationalism
Our psychological functioning cannot be understood in isolation from the cultural environment and historical period we inhabit. The mind—not only what we think, but the very ways we perceive reality...
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The Virtues of Austerity
Welcome to the new austerity! Austerity plans have been adopted by governments in much of Europe and elsewhere around the world. Then America gets sequestered and joins the party. And more recently,...
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Which Energy Runs Your Life?
"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony." ~Thomas Merton In my last article, I talked about a simple way to increase your energy: ha breathing. This is an easy...
View ArticleWhen Breath Saves Life
"They're all yours," says the psychiatrist. In front of me, a group of 15 young men. Clad in baseball hats or skullcaps, some have long beards, others tattoos. Everyone is wearing sunglasses though we...
View ArticleA professor walks into a MOOC…
(This post also appears on our Huffington Post blog)Massive open online courses, or MOOCs, are garnering lots of attention these days. Some see large-scale, web-based classes as the new frontier for...
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Do we care for our pets more than our children?
Do we care for our pets more than our children?To my dear readers, please forgive my deviation from writing about addiction and recovery. I have been struggling since the death two days ago of my...
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Burned Out? Three Bright Ideas to Light Up Your Life
You may be familiar with the old joke that goes, “How many psychologists does it take to change a light bulb?” Answer: “Just one, but the light bulb has to want to change.”They say that every joke has...
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Physical Strength and Attitudes Toward Economic Policies
If asked to predict which variable is most likely to predict a person’s position vis-à-vis wealth and income distribution, most people would likely answer one’s political ideology (e.g., Republican...
View ArticleWhat Will You Do if You Win $550 Million Powerball Lottery?
The Powerball Lottery jackpot currently stands at $550 million – about $275 million after taxes to a single winner. That’s a lot of money by almost anyone’s standards. Whether you buy a ticket or not,...
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Am I a Home for Identities?
[This is the second post in the series Why Everything You Know about Your “Self” Is Wrong. The series explores how our understanding of selfhood affects our sense of individuality, our interpersonal...
View ArticleWant A Deep Spiritual Path? Try Economics.
Many people think economic theory is the exact opposite of soulful, heartful love and spirituality. To them, economics is the hard science of money grubbing and the farthest point possible from the...
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3 Life Lessons From My American Idol Audition
A few seasons back, I auditioned for American Idol. Spoiler alert: I didn't win. But I survived. And as a result, I've got this blog post for you that's full of wisdom and bad jokes. So I guess you can...
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Love Letters: For You, By You
If Prince Charming himself wrote each of us a love letter, what would we want him to say? What qualities within us do we wish he would notice? I began thinking about love letters during my spring...
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Teach Porn In Schools?
Recent UK headline: "Teachers should give lessons in pornography and tell pupils 'it's not all bad', experts say." Education that helps kids cope with today's Internet porn phenomenon is a great idea....
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Loving Your Brain
Although Hans Selye wrote more than 1,700 papers promoting the idea that stress translates to physical problems, only in the last two decades have scientists looked seriously at the mechanics of this...
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Sex Ed
From the mysteries of the female orgasm to the health benefits of getting it on, our top bedroom insights.
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