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Want To Be Happier? You May Need To Move

msn.com | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Infrastructure, Education, Job Satisfaction, Wealth, States, Personality, Economy, Well-Being, Social Programs, Satisfaction, Tolerance, Moving, Cambridge, Happiness, Living News

New research suggests U.S. states with wealthier, better educated and more tolerant residents are also happier on average....

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There is a Beauty Within You #11: Are You More Than Culture Can Speak

Bob Lingvall | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Awareness, Relationships, Personality, Mindfulness, Self-Awareness, Meditation, Self-Esteem, Compassion, Self-Help, Self-Realization, Living News
Bob Lingvall

Self-awareness is a very mysterious phenomenon. How is it that matter can be self-aware? Is matter somehow creating you and me?

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What of "What You Are" Is No Longer You?

Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D. | Posted 11.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Pavel Somov, Zen, Personal Development, Grebenshikov, Personality, The Inner Life, Coaching, Ego, Living News
Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D.

When I am in the grip of an old pattern I don't experience it as alien to me but rather as exactly how I need to be at that moment. So how do I "set my jailer free" if I don't experience being in jail?

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There Is a Beauty Within You #10: When Love and Awareness Meet

Bob Lingvall | Posted 10.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Awareness, Relationships, Personality, Mindfulness, Self-Awareness, Meditation, Self-Esteem, Compassion, Self-Help, Self-Realization, Yoga, Living News
Bob Lingvall

Immersed in the most personal of personal loves, we are a point of awareness in an ocean of compassionate love; a butterfly on the back of a whale preparing to dive.

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There Is A Beauty Within You #9: Mom Became Like The Sweetness Of The Chocolates

Bob Lingvall | Posted 10.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Meditation, Self-Esteem, Personality, Mindfulness, Self-Awareness, Self-Help, Self-Realization, Dementia, Death, The Inner Life, Living News
Bob Lingvall

The death of a loved one, and in a special way a parent, opens up space for self-reflection. Death asks, "Are you living a good life?" Dementia tries to help us answer.

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Can We Change Our Personality?

Todd Kashdan | Posted 10.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Creativity, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Intelligence, Personality, Mindfulness, Perseverance, Compassion, Self-Help, Living News
Todd Kashdan

Researchers have found that we define a stranger's personality after a mere 10 seconds. With this thin slice of information, we start to think and act differently toward them.

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Romantic Relationships Are Hotbeds for Serious Lies

Bella DePaulo | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Bill Clinton, Mark Sanford, Living a Lie, Friends, Relationships, Personality, Money, Clues to Deception, Kinship, Newt Gingrich, James McGreevey, Serious Lies, Lying, Infidelity, Rudy Giuliani, John Ensign, Silvio Berlusconi, Passions, Deception, Sex, Honor, Self-Presentation, John Edwards, Spouses, Romantic Partners, Identity, Nonverbal Behavior, Living News
Bella DePaulo

The BIG lies, the ones we consider most serious, are usually told by and to the people with whom we are most intimate.

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How Does Your Body Language Reflect Your Personality Type?

BBC NEWS | Posted 06.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Personality Type, Body Language, Identity, Personality, Drinking, Living News

Dr Glenn Wilson, a consultant psychologist, observed the body language of 500 drinkers and divided them into eight personality types. These were the ...

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What's Your Number? Understanding Your Enneagram Type

Karen Leland | Posted 06.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Psychology, Style, Personality, Ennegram, Type, Personality Type, Relationships, The Balanced Life, Living News
Karen Leland

Fifteen or so years ago, I sat through a dinner party where the discussion at the table went something like this... "Well, as a three, I felt like I...

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The Long Term Benefits Of Self Discipline

newyorker.com | Jonah Lehrer | Posted 06.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Success, Eating, Patience, Adhd, Metacognition, Personality, Self-Discipline, Self-Control, Health, Will Power, Living News

According to Walter Mischel, this view of will power also helps explain why the marshmallow task is such a powerfully predictive test. "If you can dea...

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Why Do CEOs Do Such Stupid Things? It's Their Nature

Joel Weinberger | Posted 05.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Unconscious, Bailout, Personality, Economy, Ceos, Prestige-Brands-Holdings, Psychology, Power, Motivation, Risk, Business News
Joel Weinberger

How do we explain this behavior? Stupidity? Greed? Arrogance? To a degree, all of the above. But there is more going on and that more is part of human psychology.

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Does Your Career Fit Your Personality?

CNN.com | Rachel Zupek | Posted 04.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Personality Tests, Careers, Jobs, Career, Personality, Find a Career, How to Choose a Career, Living News

Here we have six personality groups which seem to encompass the majority of people. From there, we've listed what jobs might be suited to best fit you...

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Can Blood Type Determine Your Personality?

divinecaroline.com | Posted 07.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Blood Type, The Balanced Life, Personality, Living News

I have a rare blood type--AB , which only 4 percent of the U.S. has--and secretly, I always thought it made me kind of special, even though I had no b...

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What Your Dog Says About You

forbes.com | Brian Wingfield | Posted 12.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Animals, Personality, Dog Breeds, Living News

You can pick up after your pooch and make sure he plays nice, but it's your dog's breed that truly speaks volumes about what kind of owner you are. ...

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A Moose Killing, Oil Drilling Hockey Mom...Just Like Me?

Peter A. Ubel | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Personality, Economy, Sarah Palin, Psychology, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Guns, Politics News
Peter A. Ubel

Ultimately sports fans don't seem to root for athletes as much as they support whoever is wearing the right color jersey. In much the same way, the general public supports the policies of the people in their parties.

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Warning: Faking It May Cause Embarrassing Personal Leakage

Lisa Earle McLeod | Posted 09.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Lisa Earle McLeod, Forget Perfect, Business, Finding Grace, Personality, Relationships, Negative Attacks, Living News
Lisa Earle McLeod

Don't you just hate it when the real you leaks out? Like that time when, after one too many sloe gin fizzes, you finally told your sister-in-law wh...

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What Your Choice Of Halloween Candy Says About You

Washington Post | Joe Heim | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Personality, Halloween, Candy, Home News

Halloween looms and with it the annual candy-buying frenzy. While dieters stock up on candy they don't like so they won't be tempted by leftovers, the...

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