The Beautiful And The Good

This “what is beautiful is good” stereotype manifests in a slew of real-life situations and is by no means a one-study wonder: it has been documented in piles of research. Taken as a whole, the studies show that this is one of the more robust cognitive biases operating in the human mind. It may also be one of the oldest. The Greek poet Sappho is credited with first asserting, 2,600 years ago, that “what is beautiful is good,” while in 1882 the German romantic poet Friedrich Schiller wrote that “physical beauty is the sign of an interior beauty, a spiritual and moral beauty....

March 14, 2023 · 6 min · 1109 words · Michael Houston

The Best Features Of The Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 Series

With that said, the Galaxy Watch 4 Classic has a lot of features available to users, but these are what we feel are some of the best ones to highlight. Ones that make the watch an invaluable tool as a part of your daily life. Features that give the watch an extremely convenient user experience. And features that are just downright fun or interesting to use. Keep in mind that these are the features we feel are the best ones....

March 14, 2023 · 6 min · 1148 words · Ashley Calderon

The Breath Is Your Superpower 3 Ways To Help Kids Reset

So how do we reset ourselves and our dysregulated nervous systems when we’re emotionally overwhelmed? When I’m talking to kids or teens, I often use this reset button metaphor as well. And where is the human reset button? It’s hidden at the bottom of our lungs, so we have to breathe deeply and slowly enough to press it and restart our nervous systems. The Breath is Your Superpower The Breath is Your Superpower...

March 14, 2023 · 3 min · 470 words · Joel Wade

The Good News About Being Wrong

What’s Wrong with Being Wrong? What’s Wrong with Being Wrong? Years ago, I worked for a professional choir. The conductor told everyone that, during rehearsals, if you sang a wrong note, you should acknowledge it by raising and lowering your hand while you keep singing. In other words, you were allowed to be wrong. It didn’t have to hold you up, or get you down, or be more than a quick flick of the hand....

March 14, 2023 · 3 min · 600 words · Pamela Schmidt

The Perfect Love We Seek The Imperfect Love We Live

What lies at the root of every relationship problem is a core “wound of the heart” that affects not only our personal relations, but the quality of life in our world as a whole. This wounding shows up as a pervasive mood of unlove, a deep sense that we are not intrinsically lovable just as we are. We experience ourselves as separated from love, and this shuts down our capacity to trust....

March 14, 2023 · 17 min · 3600 words · Darrell Jefferson
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