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Emma Seppälä, PhD, is author of The Happiness Track, founder of FulfillmentDaily.com, and Science Director of Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education.
Training Our Mind for Endurance
Mental training can help us get through horrible physical experiences—even child…
The Moments That Make Us Human
"How many of us have entered a doctor’s office only to be met by an unemotional …
The Happiness Track: Against Slim Odds
Emilia Lahti, a doctoral student in psychology from Finland, set out to study th…
The Happiness Track: Religious Experiences Really Do Unite Us
Emma Seppälä PhD is author of The Happiness Track, founder of FulfillmentDaily.c…
The Happiness Track: The Path to a Lifelong Romance
We can limit the amount of pain we create for ourselves by selecting better copi…
The Happiness Track: The Loneliness Paradoxes
We live in a time of overpopulation on the one hand and extreme loneliness on th…
The Happiness Track: Say No Like a Boss
We have all said yes when we knew better, and mostly the impact is as meaningles…
The Happiness Track: Naming Your Hauntings
Quite simply, the hauntings of our mind stand between us and everything else. …
The Happiness Track: The Flow of Being
As children, we were one with each moment—crying one moment, laughing the …
The Happiness Track: The Life Stories We Tell for Health
Genetics play a role in our health, but we also have control in the choices we m…
The Happiness Track: How to Avoid the 3 Paths of BS
From the archive: Selected stories from the past 20 years. We learn best when we…
The Happiness Track: The Simple Guide to Being Wonderful
Consider a different way to define success.
How to Give to Others Without Burning Out
Research suggests that self-care can reduce stress and exhaustion—if we know how…
The Happiness Track: Creating an Inbox Meditation
Cognitive overload is a term psychologists use when referring to dealing with to…
The Happiness Track: A Crash Course in Enlightenment
My junior year of college I was driving back from a ski trip during a Vermont sn…
The Happiness Track: Navigating Your Narratives
We swim in an increasingly turbulent sea of narratives: the ones we tell ourselv…
The Happiness Track: Rest Within Yourself
Learn how to take a vacation within your own mind.…
The Happiness Track: Guilt-Free Time Off
I was wondering how to squeeze in a vacation this summer, and thinking maybe I s…
The Happiness Track: Are We Really Worlds Apart?
New research shows men and women aren't so different after all
The Happiness Track: One Truly Urgent Interruption
Get more done faster and better. That seems to be everyone’s modus operandi thes…
Shift Your Body, Shift Your Mind
At the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Mad…
The Case for Yogic Breathing
The mind has a terrible time telling itself what to do. Fortunately, science is …
Find Your Avatar
A few years ago, His Holiness the Dalai Lama was giving a public talk in New Yor…
Shift Your Body, Change Your Mind
At the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin–Mad…
Indulging the Totally Selfish Joys of Selfless Giving
Here’s the science behind creating a chain reaction of goodnessThough economists…
Your Soul Needs Playtime
A few years ago, when I was teaching an undergraduate seminar at Stanford on the…
