by Melanie Greenberg for Psychology Today
New research on the brain in the past 10 years has shed a light on how much past experience and the desire to avoid pain shapes our brain pathways. Our brains were designed first and foremost to help us survive...
As I've written about before, happiness comes at least partly from living in the moment (see this previous blog posting).
But as long as we do it right, happiness also comes from positive reminiscing and future planning (especially when the planning involes setting and working towards...