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The Care and Feeding of Love
The Care and Feeding of Love: “The 75 years and 20 million dollars spent on the Grant Study points to a straightforward five-word conclusion,” Vaillant writes. “Happiness is love. Full stop.”
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Love Is More Than Words and Actions
Love never imposes but always offers. Love attached to obligation, reciprocity, conditions, responsibility, requirement, or expectation is not the love we cherish and desire. This is manipulation, not love.
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Your Brain is Powerful But Needs Your Help
The overload can be prompted by any number of things, including an overly stressful day at work or a family emergency. People in poverty, however, have the added burden of ever-present stress, and often bracing themselves against class bias that adds extra strain or even trauma to their daily lives.
And the science is clear—when brain capacity is used up on these worries and fears, there simply isn’t as much bandwidth for other things.”
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Don’t Believe Everything You Think
A study from researchers at University College London offers some insight into one characteristic of those who hold extreme beliefs—their metacognition, or ability to evaluate whether they might be wrong. This finding—which the team replicated with tests on the second group of participants—suggests that the metacognition of radicals plays a part in shaping their beliefs. In other words, they actually can’t question their own ideas the same way more moderate individuals can.
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How to Develop a Loving Spirit
A foster parent said to me, “We took all the training; they told us what to do and how to do it.” Nothing could have prepared us for how difficult and challenging it would be.”
Dr. Karyn Purvis, the co-author of The Connected Child, and whose research, work, and love have served as a cutting-edge reference for how to love foster and adopted children, found that parents’ stress levels often exceed their own windows of tolerance.
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Appreciating and Celebrating the Earth
Everything that is living needs our heart’s care—Including Earth. The Earth has an electromagnetic field, just like we do and we are profoundly interconnected. While viewing the video, we invite you to send a few moments of genuine love, care, and appreciation to our planet—our home.
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Love, A Simple Understanding
Love is always a fit topic of discussion. Everyone knows what it means, right? No. It is probably much closer to the truth that it means something different to each person, but for now, let’s look at a simple, child-like way to define it.
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Build a Brain: Creating Long-Term Change Pt. 2
Last week (Build a Brain: Creating Long-Term Change Pt. 1) we discussed the 5 Rules for building a brain by creating changes in our lives – and trying to help our children make the changes we feel will be most helpful to them. The 5 Rules (my adaptations) from Neuroscientist Lara Boyd.
