Have you ever been so absorbed in something that you felt like you blacked out? Psychologists refer to this as being in the “zone”, where you are so intensely focused on a task that you lose track of time. While this experience exemplifies what it is to live in the moment, for the most part, it’s not common.| Virtues For Life
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” ~Marcus Aurelius By Jennifer Landis There’s one way to make sure you wake up on the right side of the bed each morning, and that’s by waking up with gratitude in […]| Virtues For Life
Anything new can be scary. Here are 7 ways to keep your mind focused on the bright side when coping with change.| Virtues For Life
Unexpected hard times can evoke fear and anxiety. Finding ways to lessen negative emotions help us manage the situation better and helps us in staying calm.| Virtues For Life
To cultivate gratitude means that you can better deal with negative thoughts, relieve stress, and embrace joy in your life.| Virtues For Life
“Good habits, once established are just as hard to break as are bad habits” ~Robert Puller It’s hard for us to break our bad habits. We’re under stress at work and at home, which can lead to overeating, having one too many glasses of wine at night, yelling at our kids and not exercising because […]| Virtues For Life
We can practice six virtues to feel happier—acceptance, gratitude, kindness, patience, purpose, and wonder.| Virtues For Life
English Poet Alfred Lord Tennyson said, "'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." Sometimes I wonder if it's true.| Virtues For Life
I've had battles with anxiety and worry more times than I can remember. I've learned, over the years, a few things to help me feel good when things are bad.| Virtues For Life
Lasting inner peace comes from within. It comes by changing our thoughts through mental and spiritual practices such as cultivating gratitude.| Virtues For Life
With many lessons learned, during the pandemic, one woman tells the three she learned which proved to be life changing.| Virtues For Life
Everything can be going right in life, yet getting out of bed can be a major struggle. More and more, people take antidepressants to combat depression.| Virtues For Life
How do we make ourselves a priority with all life’s obligations and distractions? Intentional acts of loving yourself more can help us increase our quality of life.| Virtues For Life
To manifest what you want in life is a form of creation, which that works by creating a vibrational match with an idea, thought, goal, or desire.| Virtues For Life
Choose a virtue in the New Year instead of making resolutions. This virtue can support your vision for the year, guiding your journey.| Virtues For Life
Routine and habit can squash creative thinking and stifle us. Once stifled, our minds are not challenged anymore. To break the routine, do things...| Virtues For Life
Creating new habits such as practicing gratitude, writing a daily to-do list and batching simliar tasks is key to living a more productive life.| Virtues For Life
Keeping a gratitude journal and turning gratitude into a habit has helped me to increase my positive attitude, relieve stress, and improve my self-esteem.| Virtues For Life
Spiritual teacher and author Eckhart Tolle, a German-born resident of Canada, wrote an inspiring book, The Power of Now. The book’s intent is to be a guide to spiritual enlightenment by way of recognizing what is false within ourselves (the ego as he calls it) that creates our emotional problems. This understanding can then help […]| Virtues For Life
Create a 30-day gratitude journal and start to appreciate all the abundance in life to feel happier.| Virtues For Life
Gratitude affirmations, like all affirmations, have the power to replace negative thoughts with positive ones, eventually changing beliefs that don’t serve us.| Virtues For Life
The turmoil and uncertainties of the pandemic may be wearing on you. Three virtues, resilience, gratitude and faith, can help you through this trying time.| Virtues For Life
By Jennifer Landis You’ve lost sleep, energy, mental clarity and countless personal freedoms. Your word recall and patience are at an all-time low. There are times when those kids of yours get on your very last nerve, and you pray you won’t lose your mind. Yet every single day you are so achingly grateful for […]| Virtues For Life
You were born with wings. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness...| Virtues For Life
Virtues aren’t grand gestures–they’re small, intentional acts that add up to create the life you want, a meaningful life.| Virtues For Life
Feeling out of sorts? Are you mentally and emotionally depleted? Here are some ways to stay grounded amidst all that's happening around you.| Virtues For Life
When was the last time you did something nice for yourself? Maybe you treated yourself to a massage, a weekend away, a nice dinner out, or a quite night with a book. This is good self-care. Another type of kindness is equally important―gentle self-talk. Imagine that your mind is a beautiful garden. You have the […]| Virtues For Life
What if by opening our eyes and hearts to the abundance around us, we could find more joy? One way to do this is by being grateful.| Virtues For Life
Affirmations are a powerful way to help change our lives for the better. One way to use them is to help reverse negative beliefs we have about ourselves that are simply not true, yet these false beliefs shape the course of our lives. Let’s say you have a belief that you’re not good enough. This […]| Virtues For Life
Happiness is something we all strive for in life. But it doesn’t come easy and begs the question: What does it actually take to be happy?| Virtues For Life
Understanding how certain behaviors affect us having a more joyful life can elicit change, opening the door to one of life's greatest virtues.| Virtues For Life