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Posts

• “A New Earth” by Eckhart Tolle (book recommendation)
• “Flourish” by Martin E. P. Seligman (Book Recommendation)
• “Gaming Disorder,” Is It A Real Thing?
• “Living Without Stress or Fear” by Thich Nhat Hanh- Audiobook Recommendation
• “Mindsight” by Dr. Daniel Siegel (Book Recommendation)
• “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell (book recommendation)
• “Should I Be Managing My Kid’s Screen Time? What Will Too Much Screen Time Do?”
• “The Brain That Changes Itself” by Norman Doidge, M.D. (Book Recommendation)
• “The Geography of Bliss” by Eric Weiner (Book Recommendation)
• “The Roots of Buddhist Psychology” by Jack Kornfield (Audiobook Recommendation)
• “The Wall”
• “Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain” by Sharon Begley (book recommendation)
• “You Are Not a Gadget” by Jaron Lanier (Book Recommendation)
• 10-Year Study On Screen Use And What It Means For Us
• 8 Simple Reasons You Need To Stop Obsessing Over “Likes”
• A “Life Hack” – The 5-Minute Rule
• A Balanced Life
• A Clarification about Suffering: Resignation vs. Acceptance
• A Different Take on Anger Management
• A Fitness Shortcut?
• A Quick Tip for Healthier Eating
• A Response to the “Tiger Mother” and a Thanks to Disney
• A Rule of Thumb for Relationships
• A Sure Way to Reduce Suffering in Life
• A Tribute to the Late, Great Neil Peart of Rush
• Accept Uncertainty to Be Closer to Fine
• Achieving Fame, Wealth, & Beauty Are Psychological Dead Ends
• Adjusting Our “Judgment” Lenses
• Advice on Giving Advice to Children & Teenagers
• AI Chatbot Companions: Our Future Love and Relationships
• Alan Watts on the Meaning of Life
• An Alternative to Reading: Audiobooks
• An Impoverised Present
• An Update on the Myth of Multitasking
• Another Way Money Can Buy Happiness
• Appreciating Beauty
• Are Cell Phones Harmful to Your Brain?
• Are Our Fears About Screens More Harmful Than Screens?
• Are the Kids Alright?
• Are The Kids Alright?
• Assume the Best of Others
• Audiobooks
• Avoiding the Temptation of Technology
• Be a Positive Influence
• Be Adaptive, Be Water
• Being Grateful for Near Misses
• Being Positive in Relationships
• Black Mirror: Nosedive
• Body Scan Meditation
• Brain “Power Failures” Result From Sleep Deprivation
• Breath as the Anchor
• Bruce & Brandon Lee, Loss, & Lessons Learned
• Can Brain Training Games Be Harmful?
• Can Having More Money Lead to Greater Unhappiness?
• Can Praise Be Harmful to Children?
• Can Technology Be Addictive?
• Can Texting Be Damaging for Teens?
• Can We All Get Along?
• Catching a Case of Happiness
• Cell Phone Follies
• Cell Phone Use Can Lead to Insomnia
• Change the World? We Must Start With Ourselves
• Classical Conditioning and Smartphones
• Classical Conditioning, Our Screens And Needs
• Concerns about Kids’ Technology Use
• Control vs. Influence
• Countering Depression & Anxiety
• Creating Community: HBO vs. Netflix
• Curbing Your Spending
• Cyberpsychology Blog
• Daily Physical Activity
• Daily Therapy That Works
• Dealing with Holiday Stress
• Dealing with Loss & A Tribute to Steve Irwin
• Developing A Healthier Relationship With Your Phone
• Digital Nation from Frontline News (video recommendation)
• Do Brain Games Make Us Smarter?
• Do Brain Training Games & Techniques Make Us Smarter?
• Do Cleanses and Detoxes Work?
• Do Our Emotions Fit the Situation?
• Do Our Screens Make Us Any Happier?
• Do Supplements Help Relieve Depression?
• Do We Only Use 10 Percent of Our Brains?
• Does Money Buy Happiness?
• Does Video Game Violence Cause Children & Adolescents to Become Violent? – Part 6: U.S. Crime Trends
• Does Video Game Violence Cause Children & Adolescents to Become Violent? Part 3 – The Benefits of Video Games
• Does Video Game Violence Cause Children & Adolescents to Become Violent? Part 7: Summary
• Does Video Game Violence Cause Children and Adolescents to Become Violent? Part 4
• Does Video Game Violence Cause Children and Adolescents to Become Violent? Video Blog Part 5
• Don’t Beat Yourself Up About Those New Year’s Resolutions
• Doodling Might Aid Memory Recall
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (Book & Media Rec)
• Easy Strategy to Create Happiness
• Easy Technique for Practicing Breathing
• Engagement Leads to More Happiness, Mind-Wandering Leads to Less Happiness
• Experiences Over Things
• Experiences Over Things
• Fake It Until You Become It
• Feeling Stuck? Try Something New!
• Finally! The Game-Changer For Managing Screen Time
• Finding Common Ground
• Finding Similarities: A Key to Relationships
• Finding The Truth Behind How Screens Affect Our Happiness
• Focus on Being Effective Instead of Being Right
• FOMO
• Generating New Neurons Through Exercise
• Getting Centered
• Getting Extra Mileage Out of Walking the Dogs
• Getting Kids Off the Screen During the Summer
• Gingko Might Not Be As Helpful As Once Thought
• Giving Thanks
• Giving Thanks in Troubled Times
• Gratitude Isn’t Just for Thanksgiving
• Green Light Stage Of The Tech Happy Life
• Happiness in Our Relationships
• Happiness Is Found Within People
• Happiness is in Our Relationships
• Happiness Through an iPhone?
• Hate Is the Dark Side of the Force
• Help for Insomnia
• Helping Kids Disconnect To Connect In The Summer
• Helping Kids Grow to Be “Successful” Adults
• Here Is One Reason Why the World Seems Terrible
• Holiday Connections
• Holidays During Politically Divided Times
• How AIs Are Artificial Life
• How AIs Will Have Their Own Personalities
• How Can We Reduce Gun Violence?
• How Do We Repair a House Divided?
• How Humans Are Acting Like Moths
• How Is the Release of AI is Like Opening Pandora’s Box?
• How Much Screen Time Is Too Much Screen Time?
• How To Create A Sacred Space
• How To Deal With Stressful Group Chats
• How to Get Motivated
• How to Get Motivated – Part 2
• How to Get Motivated – Part 3
• How to Get Motivated – Part 4
• How To Improve Your Happiness With Screens
• How to Manage The Challenge of Screens
• How to Maximize Happiness in a Tech-Saturated World
• How To Start Practicing Your Mindful Engagement With Technology
• How to Tackle Emerging Screen Use Problems
• How to Unplug to Create Sacred Spaces
• How We Can Become Addicted to Technology
• How You Can Be a Better Version of Yourself?
• Igniting Emotions
• Imagine If You Could Be More Creative!
• Improve Happiness With Screens
• Improving Sleep
• Interesting Fact About Sleep Deprivation
• Internet Addiction & Depression
• Is AI the Greatest Challenge Humanity Has Ever Faced?
• Is Football Causing CTE?
• Is Fortnite a Real Problem for Kids?
• Is Fortnite Bad for Kids?
• Is Fortnite Ruining Your Kid?
• Is Screen Addiction a Real Thing? Perhaps, But It’s Not Digital Heroin
• Is Social Media Causing Greater Social Isolation?
• Is the AI of ChatGPT the Beginning of the End?
• Is the Internet Dividing Us?
• Is Video Game Violence to Blame for Mass Shootings?
• It Is What It Is
• Keep on (Day) Dreamin’
• Keeping a Gratitude Journal
• Kids Don’t Leave The House Much?
• Last Minute Gift Ideas
• Laughter is Good For Us, But Best If Shared
• Life as a Video Game
• Life Lessons from Mr. Spock
• Life Through a Lens
• Life’s A Video Game
• Living A Balanced Life With Technology
• Living A Balanced Tech Happy Life
• Living An Overstuffed Life
• Living Mindfully
• Looking for Something? Get “Lost”!
• Lost “Control” of My Thoughts
• Love is Alive
• Making Life Changes Through Books
• Making Sense of Suicide
• Managing Anger
• Max Caffeine Per Day?
• Meditation On-the-Go
• Memorable Quotes and Powerful Truths
• Mindfulness & Nonjudgment
• Mindfulness & Using the Cell While Driving
• Mindfulness and Being Nonjudgemental
• Mindfulness Challenges
• Mindfulness for Beginners by Jon Kabat-Zinn (audiobook recommendation)
• Modeling Balanced Screen Time as Parents
• More on “Spinning”
• More Positive Mood = Better Insight
• My New Year’s Resolutions
• My New Year’s Resolutions-Reflections
• My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D. (YouTube video recommendation)
• My Unsolicited Advice About Unsolicited Advice
• New Report on Mental Disorders in Young Adults
• New Year’s Resolutions
• No Time to Meditate? Here’s an Easy Solution!
• On the “Noble Truth” & and Suffering
• Our Lives as a Video Game
• Our Resilience and the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Parenting Guide: The Foundation
• Positives for Customer Support
• Pot Smoking Increases the Symptoms of Schizophrenia
• Power of Words & Self-Talk
• Practice and You’ll Get Better Despite Yourself
• Practicing Mindfulness Daily
• Preserving Our Memories?
• Preventing Parenting Problems
• Problems with Screen Time Research
• Psychological Intervention to Improve Breast Cancer Survival Rates
• Pursuing the Tech Happy Life
• Quick Healthy Eating Tip
• Radiolab (Podcast Recommendation)
• Reading & Fatigue
• Reducing Holiday Stress From Relationship Difficulties
• Refund on Baby Einstein Videos
• Relationships Are the Key to Happiness
• Relief from Anger
• Revisiting the “The Catcher in the Rye”
• Sacred Spaces
• Savoring Thanksgiving
• Savoring What Life Has to Offer
• Screen Time During the Pandemic
• Screen Time Harm-How Did Screens Affect Us?
• Screens and Needs
• Seeing the “Good” in Others
• Self Liberation
• Self-Compassion: Be Good to Ourselves
• Self-Liberation Through Actions
• Self-Liberation Through Mindfulness
• Self-Liberation Through Thoughts
• Should Children Be Allowed to Watch Scary Movies?
• Should We Be Worried About Generation Z?
• Should We Get Our Kids Video Games for Christmas?
• Sleep Loss Linked to Obesity in Kids & Adults
• Sleep Loss Linked to Psychiatric Disorders
• Smartphone Addiction and the Brain
• Some Cautions Regarding Herbal Supplements
• Some Mindfulness Meditation “Hacks”
• Spanking Children: The Facts About Corporal Punishment
• Spanking Is Harmful to Children
• Step Outside to Recharge Your Brain
• Steve Jobs Wouldn’t Have Wanted This
• Stubborn Is As Stubborn Does
• Supernatural Stimuli
• Take the “Sleep Challenge”
• Tech Happy Life Model
• Tech Workouts to Build Brain “Muscle”?
• Technology Addiction: It’s Real (Sort of)
• Technology as Supernormal Stimuli
• Teen Internet Use Can Be a Good Thing
• Teens & “Sexting”
• Texas Standard Interview
• That Mind-Body Connection
• The 10,000 Hour Rule
• The Aftermath of Discipline on DadLabs
• THE Answer to U.S. Immigration Policy!
• The Best Way to Buy Happiness?
• The Brady Bunch, Football, and Head Injuries
• The Bucket List, Surfing, and Zen
• The Dalai Lama’s Teachings and How We Can All Benefit From Them
• The Five Pathways of Change
• The FOMO Problem
• The Foundation for Effective Parenting
• The Fundamental Problem Of Screens
• The Fundamental Problem with Screens
• The Fundamental Problem With Screens
• The Future of Social Media?
• The How of Happiness – Sonja Lyubomirsky, Ph.D. (book recommendation)
• The Importance of Exercise
• The Importance of Healthy Eating Habits
• The Importance of Nutrition
• The Importance of Physical Exercise
• The Importance of Play
• The Importance of Sleep
• The Keys to Being an Effective Parent
• The Magic of Friendship
• The Magical Gift of Experiences
• The Moral Panic Over Generation Z
• The Myth of Multitasking
• The Overstuffed Life
• The Power of an Apology Part 1-Why Is It Difficult?
• The Power of Friendships
• The Power of Presence
• The Power of Screen Time
• The Power to Accept What Is
• The Pull of Screens
• The Quiet Epidemic of Sleep Loss
• The Toxic Advice You Are Giving To Your Kids
• The Ultimate Happiness Prescription by Deepak Chopra (book recommendation)
• The Villain, Roy Batty of Blade Runner, Has a Lesson for Us
• The Worst Thing to Do When Feeling Depressed
• There Is Nothing Either Good Or Bad But Thinking Makes It So
• These Are Days
• Thinking a Different Way
• Tip For Sticking With New Year’s Resolutions: Just Say “I Don’t!”
• Tips on Improving Social Relationships
• Tragedy at Virginia Tech
• Transcending Technology – Part 2: The Roots of Our Problems
• Transcending Technology-Part 1: The Progress Paradox
• Trying to Control Our Kids
• Turning a Liability into an Advantage
• Unnecessary Suffering
• Urgent Call for Global AI Regulation
• Using Tech to Pass the Time
• Using the “Magic Ratio” for Positive Parenting
• Using the Breath to Become More Mindful
• Variable Reinforcement and Screens
• Variable Reinforcements: The Reward System That Sucks Us In
• Video Blog: Does Video Game Violence Cause Children and Adolescents to Become Violent?
• Video Blog: How Do We Improve Our Relationships?
• Video Games: Do They Help Train the Brain?
• Viewpoints With Todd Van Der Heyden
• Want to Escape Depression? Try This Approach
• Was Technology Ever Meant To Go This Far?
• We Can’t Reach Our Potential
• We Need to Unplug to Create Sacred Spaces
• What Can Parents Do About Video Game Violence? (Part 8)
• What If You Tried This?
• What is “Gaming Disorder” And Does My Child Have It?
• What Is ChatGPT? What Kind of AI Is It?
• What is Mindfulness?
• What is Success?
• What Is the Black Box Problem of AIs?
• What We Can Learn From Spaghetti Sauce – Malcolm Gladwell (YouTube video recommendation)
• What Yoda Would Think Of The 2016 Presidential Election
• What’s the Right Amount to Reward and Punish Kids?
• What’s The Key To Teens Getting Happiness From Screens?
• When the Laughter Stops: Lessons from the Life & Death of Robin Williams
• Which Wolf Will You Feed?
• Why AI Is Different Than Any Other Invention or Technology in Human History
• Why Balance Screen Use?
• Why Can’t Screens Make Us Happy?
• Why Is Mindfulness is the Master Key to Change?
• Why Technology Does Not Make Us Happier
• Why We Obsessively Check Our Phones
• Why We Will Fall in Love with Our AI Companions
• Why We Will View AIs as Artificial Life
• Why You Should Develop Good Phone Manners
• Windows of Illumination
• Wolf Alice “Bros”
• Worrying About Losing a Job is Worse Than Losing a Job
• Yellow Light Stage: Tackling Screen Problems
• You Are a Role Model for Your Child/Teen
• You Are Not Your Thoughts
• You Can’t Measure Transcendence
• You Never Get a Second Chance to Make a First Impression
• Your True Nature is Pure Gold
• Zen View of “Problems”