I made a year-end resolution. For the remaining nine days of the year, I won’t be touching a single drop of alcohol. When ...

Positive psychology posits that to feel better, you just need to think more optimistically. A new approach suggests an important element missing from this formula.

Other studies from Lachman’s lab suggest that positive attitudes can help to minimize declines and maintain mental and physical health in later life. In addition to getting involved in social groups ...

The considered wisdom in positive psychology is that to feel better, you just need to think happy thoughts. If this conjures up the song “I Whistle a Happy Tune,” then you’re on the right track.

Much of his work centers on helping people make measurable changes in their lives by understanding how manifestation, meditation and positive thoughts can alter brain chemistry. Much of his work ...

In the simplest terms, positive thoughts stimulate and fire up the brain per se, while negative thoughts essentially cause the brain to shut down. “Positive grows it and negative shrinks it ...

King Antiochus IV Epiphanes imposed harsh measures to enforce Hellenization, banning Jewish practices such as circumcision, ...

Our thoughts determine our emotions and behaviors. Learning to break negative thoughts and cultivate positive ones can improve mental well-being. Life is very simple. But it is our thoughts that ...

This desire to change negative thinking into positive thinking is clearly no easy feat despite the endless self-help books and Instagram quotes that tell us otherwise. But for those looking to ...