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We’ve all heard that laughter is the best medicine. If you’re old enough you may recall Norman Cousins 1979 book, Anatomy of An Illness. Norman Cousins was the editor of the Saturday Review magazine and he had come down with a serious, life threatening disease and he decided to treat himself using laughter. I seem […]

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Are you as wealthy as you’d like to be? Probably the first thing that comes to mind in response to that question is your bank account, stock portfolio, or real estate holdings. Seems like you can never have too much money, let alone enough. Yet, all the great spiritual traditions emphasize inner wealth over material […]

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Most of what you do, think and believe is generated by parts of your brain to which you have no access. Sigmund Freud was the first to popularize this notion, asserting that only 5% or so of our thoughts and behavior is motivated by conscious intention. Now, 100 years later, the tools of brain science […]

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Happiness. We all want it. Right? Our U.S. Bill of Rights even guarantees us the right to pursue it. At the same time, it can sometimes feel like you are on a hamster-wheel in desperate pursuit of that sometimes-elusive goal. According to my guest, the pursuit of happiness can turn into a nightmare. Russ Harris, […]

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We’re used to thinking of developmental disorders as “Dis-abilities.” A newer term is “the differently abled and, at first, you might think that’s just a euphemism. Research studies of savants, for example, reveal that some show incredible artistic, musical, or memory abilities. People along the autism scale experience the world differently than those of us […]

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The newspapers and TV are full of stories of bad actors all the way from petty criminals to serial killers to miscreants at the highest levels of business and government. I think, at some level, most of us are fascinated with criminality. Just look at all the TV crime shows out there, from Hawaii Five […]

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