If the idea that practicing virtues like gratitude can make us happy sounds more spiritual than scientific, you may be surprised to learn that the Positive Psychology Movement has some hard research to back up this claim. The best-known research is described in the book Authentic Happiness, by Martin Seligman of the University of Pennsylvania. …
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Thanksgiving provides the perfect opportunity to illustrate one of the central themes of my books – that our emotions are sensations that tell us about the presence or absence of virtues in our lives. In The Secret of Emotions, I present a list of words. Here are just a few of them: Enthusiasm, Faith, Forgiveness, …
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With Thanksgiving approaching, I thought now would be a good time to share my dieting secrets. I call this plan the sensational diet because instead of focusing on the kind of foods you are allowed to eat, it focuses on the kinds of sensations that eating food generates. You don’t have to be a hedonist …
I believe the most helpful step in forgiving is to receive validation that the injustice we are perceiving is real. From a purely practical standpoint, it is impossible to forgive an injustice that has not been identified as unjust. This is why it is so difficult to deal with dishonest and manipulative people. They are …
Here are some thoughts I had while working on the booklet True Wealth for Troubled Times. Many of these ideas and quotations were incorporated into that compilation, but some were too personal to include. I hope you find them helpful: Whether we are unemployed, under-employed, or just feeling poor, financial problems can make us feel …
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I know, blogs are for words, and pictures are for Pinterest, but I’ve illustrated some quotations from my new book and wanted to see how they looked here. This is the first sentence of The Secret of Emotions which is the first volume in the Love, Lust and the Longing for God series.
About 20 years ago, I did some work around needs and wants. My deep seated belief (my inner child’s belief, if you will) was that God only gave me what I needed, but I never got (didn’t deserve) what I simply wanted. This did two things. First of all, it meant that I didn’t allow …
