mindfulness

How to Wire Your Brain for Happiness

A recent article from the Huffington Post summarized a book by neuropsychologist Rick Hanson, author of Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm and Confidence. To summarize, on a day-to-day basis, we need to stay with our positive experiences long enough for them to be encoded into neural structure and transfer better into our long-term memory. Below are five of his tips, that we’ll certainly be sure to try to incorporate further into our multicultural summer camp. Take in the good. Appreciate moments of joy and increase their intensity and duration by lingering […]

Challenging Reads Regarding Individual Consumption

Sadly enough, though I make sure that the programming and mission of our multicultural summer camp is consistently progressive and forward-thinking, my attention to my personal behavior is harder to change—although no less important. Here are a couple of recommendations for books that challenged me to think differently about our household consumption. As they did for me, they may help see the world in a new perspective. Check out Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan, and A World Without Us, by Alan Weisman. Great reads, and challenging! Share what you think […]

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