The Science of Happiness: 20 Things You Can Do This Year To Change Your Life

There is no secret to happiness, but there is a science to it, says Dr. Tim Bono, PhD, a psychology lecturer in Arts & Sciences who teaches courses on happiness at Washington University in St. Louis.

How can we be happier? In a world where stress, anxiety and bad days can easily overtake the good.

In his recent book, When Likes Aren't Enough: A Crash Course in the Science of Happiness, Bono explores how the often overlooked details of day-to-day life can have a sizeable influence on our personal sense of well-being and happiness.

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How to Enter Someone Else's Dreams

Source: Psychic Dreaming

The idea of being able to enter someone else's dream can seem like something right out of a science fiction movie. It may conjure up ideas of being attached to all sort of gadgets and devices and being placed in some controlled environment in order to accomplish this great feat. However, none of this is needed in order to enter someone's dreams.

In fact, the process is far simpler than many of us would care to believe. If anything, that level of power may conjure up a bit of fear at how easy it could be for someone to have that much power over us or perhaps even our own fear of being in possession of that much power over another.

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This Is Your Brain on Exercise

Human beings evolved to move.

Our bodies, including our brains, were fine-tuned for endurance activities over millennia of stalking and chasing down prey.

"We've engineered that out of our lives now," says Charles Hillman, a psychology professor at Northeastern University who has spent decades studying the link between exercise and cognition. The toll our relatively new sedentary lifestyle takes on our bodies is clear: For the first time in U.S. history, younger generations are expected to live shorter, unhealthier lives than their parents.

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Can You Turn On Brain Power, Motivation, Energy, And Confidence In Just 15 Minutes?

Can you imagine being able to listen to a 15-minute MP3 to turn on any mind state you want.

For example, want to experience razor sharp focus? Just listen to an audio.

Want to feel happier? Listen to that audio. More brain power? Pop in that audio.

That's what a new “brainwave entrainment” site claims you’ll be able to do. And, apparently, they have the science to back it up.

Today, I’m going to pull back the curtains and see if their claims are the real deal – or nothing but hot air.

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Can Dreams Predict the Future?

Can dreams predict the future? There is surprisingly little scientific information available to provide concrete answers to this common question. While methods exist to test the abilities of individuals who claim to be psychic, I have been unable to find studies of this nature dealing specifically with dreams.

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The Secret to Longevity May Be Lying About Your Age

We can look to the life of Jeanne Louise Calment—the Frenchwoman famous for surviving some 122 years until she passed away in 1997—for French-y lifestyle tips about enduring to a ripe old age: Ride a bicycle until you’re 100; marry someone who will pay your bills; eat two pounds of chocolate per week; rub olive oil onto your skin; indulge in the occasional glass of Port. But now, a new paper poses that Calment may have had another old-fashioned method for reaching an impressive age: just lie about it!

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Ayahuasca vs. Depression

Gary, a London-based ayahuasca user, believes that ayahuasca can alleviate depression. Before he started taking the South American plant-based brew, he suffered from intense bouts of anxiety and panic attacks.

“[Ayahuasca] is a very potent tool that shakes your psyche up and puts it back together again [...] The first time I took it I felt like I was dying,” said Gary, who requested his surname remain anonymous. “It’s a radical means to fast-forward your self-development.”

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2019's Most Mind-Boggling Stories About the Brain

2019 was nuts for neuroscience. I said this last year too, but that's the nature of accelerating technologies: the advances just keep coming.

There are the theoretical showdowns: a mano a mano battle of where consciousness arises in the brain, wildly creative theories of why our brains are so powerful, and the first complete brain wiring diagram of any species. This year also saw the the birth of "hybrid" brain atlases that seek to interrogate brain function from multiple levels--genetic, molecular, and wiring, synthesizing individual maps into multiple comprehensive layers.

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5 Traps Used to Shut Down and Limit Human Consciousness

The human condition at present is one of slavery, a new kind of slavery, where bondage is psychological and spiritual rather than physical.

Human consciousness is the target in a broad war of control where people willingly acquiesce to social conditions which clearly fail to serve their best interests, even doing them harm.

We accept the status quo of warfare, fear, environmental destruction, greed, corruption, poisoned health and false scarcity because we’ve been herded into traps which hold us hostage with false beliefs and the appearance of comfort.

In reality, though, breaking through these traps would allow us to apply the principles of peace, sustainability, exploration, acceptance and progress to improving the human condition.

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