Enhance Your Sense of Humor
What is the greatest reward of being alive? Is it chocolate, sex, ice cream, tropical vacations, hugs from children, a perfect night's sleep, or the satisfaction of a job well done? A thousand people, a thousand different answers. But one supreme ... [... more]
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Healthy Ways to Deal With Guilt
Ask anyone to define "guilt," and they hem and haw. It's a feeling that's kind of hard to describe. A feeling that I should have done something, should be doing something, should not have done something. Actually, "guilt" comes from [... more]
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How to Be a More Sensual Couple
By Michael Castleman From Reader's Digest Originally in Reader's Digest Richard Brzeczek had it all. As superintendent of the Chicago Police Department, he was powerful, affluent and prominent. He had four children by Liz, his wife of 16 years, ... [... more]
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Answered! Life's 25 Toughest Questions
Absolutely -- but only if you chuck the fairy tale of living happily ever after. A team of scientists recently found that romantic love involves chemical changes in the brain that last 12 to 18 months. After that, you and your partner are on your ... [... more]
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In Your Own Backyard
I grew up in a house in a Boston suburb, with a yard that couldn't have amounted to more than a quarter of an acre. But through the eyes of a child, the backyard was pure wilderness, a wonderland that seemed to go on forever, with endless ... [... more]
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The Healing Power of Nature
There are moments you forget and moments you don't. I've never forgotten one I experienced on a sunny January day in 1994. I'd spent five days backpacking through the rough terrain of California's Joshua Tree National Park. Now I stood alone on a ... [... more]
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The Accidental Family
Even at age seven, Ripton Rosen was obsessed with baseball. So he was thrilled when a group of 12-year-old boys in a Lower East Side Manhattan park allowed him to play right field in their game one steamy summer evening in 1998. His teammates, ... [... more]
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New Pleasure Principles
By Cynthia Dermody From Reader's Digest We talked with University of Oxford neuroscientist Morten Kringelbach, author of the upcoming book The Pleasure Center, about his revolutionary research and our constant craving to feel good. We can implant ... [... more]
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Reinvent Your Life and Your Marriage
Reinventing your life and your marriage means looking beyond leisure and searching for meaning. In his study of retirement-age men, George Vaillant, M.D. -- a Harvard Medical School psychiatrist and author of Aging Well: Surprising Guideposts to ... [... more]
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Beat Depression and End Insomnia
Depression is a life-threatening disorder that seems to be triggered by stress, hormones, genetic glitches, medical conditions, medication, and maybe even the kitchen sink. Its onset is predicted by insomnia, insomnia usually accompanies it, and ... [... more]
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Crow's Nest: Interview With Sheryl Crow
Successful and in control, Sheryl Crow had won nine Grammys, sold more than 30 million records and was about to marry Tour de France legend Lance Armstrong when it all fell apart. The engagement was broken off -- neither will say by whom -- in ... [... more]
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Give Yourself a Break!
By Cynthia Dermody From Reader's Digest You're extra busy at work this month, but you need to find time to unwind: Doing too much can make you sick. Those who clock 51-plus hours a week are 30% more likely to have high blood pressure than those ... [... more]
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