Self Control

Please Meditate: Self Inquiry and Impulse Control (VIDEO)

Olivia Rosewood | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Olivia-Rosewood, Impulse Control, Meditation, Eckhart Tolle, Self-Control, Meditation Practice, Goals, Byron Katie, Inner Peace, Mindfulness, Self Inquiry, Self Inquiry Impulse Control, Video, Healthy Living News

"Why should I question myself?" You might wonder. The answer to that question is found in the question itself. The fact that one is able to question one's self indicates that there is more to awareness than incessant thought, as many assume.

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The Psychology Of Weight Control: How Recalling Your Values Leads To Weight Loss

Wray Herbert | Posted 03.03.2012

Read More: Stress, Health Psychology, Weight Loss, Self-Control, Weight Loss Methods, New Research, Weight Loss Tips, Weight Loss Help, Health News, Weight Loss Psychology, Psychology Weight Loss, Custom-Diet-and-Nutrition, Healthy Living News

Scientists believe that people can get stuck in repeating cycles, in which failure to lose weight impairs psychological functioning, which in turn increases the risk of more failure. Even a quick and simple intervention may have the power to disrupt this destructive cycle.

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Life & Happiness With Laura Rowley: How To Boost Willpower

Laura Rowley | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Roy Baumeister, New Year's Resolutions, Decision-Making, Smart Decisions, Decision Fatigue, Willpower, Self-Control, Decision Making, Choice Overload, Video, Fifty News

The holidays are definitely a season of multiple decisions -- gifts and decorations, menus and invitations -- and choice overload can weaken our willp...

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How To Stop Being A People-Pleaser

Daylle Deanna Schwartz | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: People Pleasers, Self-Empowerment, Self-Control, Being Too Nice, Friendship Advice, Advice for Women, Women News

Despite the self-empowerment messages we hear, people pleasing is still rampant, especially among women.

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14 Tips For Controlling Holiday Eating -- On Thanksgiving And Beyond

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 01.24.2012

Read More: Holidays, Holiday Weight Gain, Health, Weight Gain, Food, Thanksgiving, Eating, Self-Restraint, Self-Control, Holiday Eating Tips, Healthy Living News

I've been thinking a lot about my eating habits lately -- probably because the holiday season is so full of temptation. Here are some guideline to follow, whether eating in or eating out.

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Why Religion Makes You Disciplined

Wray Herbert | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Religion, Morality, God, Judgment, Self-Discipline, Self-Control, Spirituality, Mindfulness, Why Do We Have Religion, Emotional Intelligence, Healthy Living News

A team of psychological scientists at Queen's University, Ontario, is now offering a novel idea about the origin of religion, and what's more they're delivering some preliminary scientific evidence to support their reasoning.

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How To Keep Going When You Think You Can't: 5 Tips For Tough Times

Amy Gutman | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Tough Times, John Tierney, Job Search, Roy F. Baumeister, Self-Control, Great Recession, Willpower, Consciousness, Motivation, Willpower Tips, Healthy Living Spirit, Emotional Intelligence, Healthy Living News

You probably know the feeling: Just when you most need to push ahead, whatever willpower you once possessed is nowhere to be found. As it turns out, this is no coincidence.

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Could This Trait Make You More Successful?

Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D. | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Self-Control, Success, Willpower, Healthy Living Health News, Effect of Willpower on Success, Self-Control and Success, Success and Willpower, Healthy Living Mind, Emotional Intelligence, Healthy Living News

New research shows that people just won't trust you when you seem like you might have a willpower problem.

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Self-Control: Helpful Or Harmful?

Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D. | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Decision-Making, Willpower, Healthy Living Health News, Failure and Self-Control, Success and Self-Control, Healthy Living Mind, Good Self-Control, Self-Control, Lack of Self-Control, Emotional Intelligence, Healthy Living News

We automatically think of willpower as a resource we use to help us do the things we know we should do -- the things that are good for us. Why, then, would anyone ever exert willpower in order to do something that isn't good for them?

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How to Stop Love From Making You Act Like a Fool

Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D. | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: Marriage, Relationships, Impulses, Willpower, Dating, Facebook, Love, Self-Control, Attraction, Happiness, Love and Relationships, Healthy Living Spirit, Healthy Living News

Just taking a moment to decide how you will handle your less attractive impulses could mean the difference between finding Mr. Right and seriously freaking him out.

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5 Ways to Spend Less

Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D. | Posted 10.04.2011

Read More: Impulse, Shopping, Money, Willpower, Budget, Spending, Temptation, Self-Control, Finances, Buying, Business News

Everyone knows that if you want to get your finances in order and start being smart about your financial future, you need to make a financial plan.

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New Strategies To Curb Emotional Eating

Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D. | Posted 09.04.2011

Read More: Depression, Nutrition, Emotional Eating, Willpower, Diet, Obesity, Self-Control, Anxiety, Overeating, Happiness, Healthy Living News

Americans are stressed out, and seeking treatment for anxiety and depression in record numbers. Experiencing all of those bad feelings each day leads us to consume more and more high-calorie junk food.

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The Relationship Between Exercise And Self Control

Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D. | Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: Healthy Living Body, Working Out, Willpower, Building Self-Control, Gaining Control, Fitness and Exercise, Self-Control, Dieting Self-Control, Healthy Living News

It turns out that our capacity for self-control is surprisingly like a muscle -- like a bicep or tricep.

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The Only Way to Get Important Things Done

Tony Schwartz | Posted 07.26.2011

Read More: Habits, Prefrontal Cortex, Rituals, Exercise, High Performance, Discipline, Self-Control, Automaticity, Productivity, Sleep, Business News

We each have one reservoir of will and discipline, and it gets progressively depleted by any act of conscious self-regulation. So if you spend energy trying to resist a fragrant chocolate chip cookie, you'll have less energy left over to solve a difficult problem.

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Balanced Life -- Quiz: Are you a Moderator or an Abstainer, When Trying to Give Something Up?

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Habits, Healthy, Health, Nutrition, Moderation, Fitness, Food, Eating, Diet, Resolutions, Self-Control, Healthy Living News

Every Wednesday is Tip Day, or Quiz Day. This Wednesday, back by popular demand: Quiz -- are you a moderator or abstainer? One of the great myst...

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How Willpower Works

Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Smoking, Willpower, Weight Loss, Self-Improvement, Changing Bad Habits, Self-Control, Goals, Setting Goals, Achieving Goals, Goal Setting, Self Help, Healthy Living News

Your capacity for self-control is not unlike the muscles in your body. Just as well-developed biceps sometimes get tired and jelly-like after a strenuous workout, so, too, does your willpower "muscle."

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9 Things Successful People Do Differently

Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Success, Willpower, Self-Control, Productivity, Setting Goals, Self Help, Success Strategies, Success Tips, Goal Setting, Success Advice, Successful People Motivation, Success Stories, Healthy Living News

Decades of research on achievement suggests that successful people reach their goals not simply because of who they are, but more often because of what they do.

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30 Things We Need -- and 30 We Don't

Tony Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Multitasking, Billionaires, Win Win, Self-Control, Self-Awareness, Sleep, Reflection, Business News

Do you have the feeling, as I do, that in the tsunami of everyday life, we're getting too much of stuff we don't need, and not enough of what we do? Herewith my first set of suggestions about how to redress the imbalance.

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The Partner Paradox: 'Outsourcing' Self-Discipline

Wray Herbert | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Interpersonal Relationships, Dependence, Emotional Support, Partner Paradox, Health Psychology, Self-Discipline, Self-Control, Motivation, Goal Setting, Emotional Dependence, Inspiration, Emotional Support Discipline, Emotional Support Motivation, The Inner Life, Healthy Living News

Is it possible that having a supportive partner might have the opposite and paradoxical effect, actually undermining effort and commitment to health and fitness goals over the long haul?

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Take Back Your Attention

Tony Schwartz | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Attention, Focus, Computers, Amy Chua, Attention Span, Technology, Self-Control, Self-Discipline, Technology-Overload, Healthy Living News

Something insidious has happened. The same device most of us use to get our primary work accomplished is also now the repository of 1,000 distractions and every imaginable source of immediate gratification.

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Treat Yourself Like A Toddler

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Holiday, Unhappiness, Relationships, Behavior, Vacation, Self-Control, Self-Regulation, Happiness, Family, Sleep, The Happiness Project Gretchen Rubin, Unplug and Recharge, The Happiness Project, Healthy Living News

It's easy to expect that you "should" be able to deal with a particular situation, and of course, to a point, it's admirable to be flexible, to be low-maintenance.

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How Thinking About An Elephant Can Make You Happier

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Unhappiness, Self-Mastery, Art, Nature, Thinking, Psychology, Eugene Delacroix, Boethius, Self-Control, Rumination, Happiness, Healthy Living News

If you want to distract yourself and raise your thoughts, what do you think about? Do you consider the elephant, contemplate the heavens, or something similar?

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Dog Tired: What Our Hounds Can Teach Us About Self-Control

Wray Herbert | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Cognitive Psychology, Self-Control, Self-Discipline, Delayed Gratification, Psychological Science, The Inner Life, Healthy Living News

New research is now suggesting a much more primitive explanation for our powers of self-discipline--one that brings us down a notch or two in the animal kingdom.

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The Balanced Life: Make It Easy to Do Right

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Habits, Resolutions, Happiness, Balanced Life, Work Life Balance, Self Control, Weight Loss, How to Lose Weight, How to Balance, Self-Control, The Balanced Life, Healthy Living News

Find ingenious ways to make a resolution easier to keep.

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Is Binge Eating A Psychiatric Disorder?

latimes.com | Melissa Healy | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Psychiatric Disorder, Self Control, Anorexia, Health, Anorexia Nervosa, Willpower, Eating, Consumption, Obesity, Overeating, Bulimia, Wellness, Binge Eating, Healthy Living News

Psychiatrists must decide whether "binge eating disorder" stands alongside anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa as a separate psychiatric condition --...

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