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Complaining can spur a positive change in your life when it leads you to problem solve. A healthy, productive complaint to your partner about your shared list of chores can boost your self-esteem and make you feel like you’re behind the wheel of your own life. Complaining is unhealthy when it doesn’t get results. Talking…
Making manageable goals a part of your outlook can be a great way to feel good about yourself. You’ve likely felt this in your own life—the deep sense of joy that accompanies passing an important milestone, or the happy anticipation of completing a special project. If you feel like you’re working toward something good, you’re…
At different times—while growing up, maybe, or after moving to a new city—you might have felt envious of the person who could strike up a conversation with anyone, drawing endless observations about the weather or a ball game from thin air. Maybe you wish you had the confidence to chat with the person sitting beside…
No matter who you are or where you’re at in life, stress likely affects you from time to time. Stress means you’re under pressure, you’re feeling overwhelmed, and you’re not sure how to cope. When stress becomes your shadow, your health can start to suffer. High rates of stress are linked to increased blood pressure,…
Recent research conducted at Harvard suggests that waking up on the metaphorical “wrong side of the bed” might really affect how you feel hours later. The moods and attitudes swirling around you as you wake up can trail behind you throughout the day. For example, jumping out of bed with a smile when the alarm…
While it might sound like a stretch at first, piles of new data suggest that colors often work in tandem with your mood. In fact, advertisers have been testing the connection for years. Ads for food often use yellow and red to increase appetite. Ads for outdoor clothing or all-terrain vehicles rely on dark greens…
Researcher Kristen Neff has discovered something life-changing about culturally predominant beliefs regarding success, self-improvement, and self-criticism: beating yourself up actually prevents you from doing your best and from doing the most. Chances are good that you were led to believe productivity meant comparing yourself to others and holding yourself to an ever-higher standard. Maybe you’ve…
It turns out there’s more to the relationship between happiness and food than calorie counts; the nutrients in the food you eat affect your emotional well-being too. Convincing research suggests a correlation between the experience of conditions like depression and anxiety and a lack of crucial vitamins, minerals, and fatty acids. It makes sense that…
Over the years, many different health trends have come and gone. From jazzercise to aerobics to Zumba, it can feel like there’s always some new thing your friends or coworkers are urging you to try. In some cases, the hype belies myth. For example, most scientists believe the payoff of the juice cleanse fad has…
When conversations turn to the subject of well-being, the focus often revolves around yoga, eating organic, or the latest juice cleanse. Maybe you’ve tried yoga and you eat organic, and yet you feel like you’re simply adding items to your to-do list instead of finding peace or feeling better. If you’re feeling even more burned…