Interview with Peter J. Levine
This is a syndicated article, all copyrights are enforceable and reproduction without permission is not allowed. Artist, philosopher and sometime interviewer Elizabeth Dee meets Peter Levine, author of The Mechanics of Happiness: Engineering a Positive Approach to Your Life. I’ve met some of the great polemicists, I’ve met some angry people and I’ve met social revolutionaries.... Read More
Interpreting the mystic path
RitaKBecause your life is not flat in the sense that a pancake is flat, because you are not one dimensional and because you operate at different speeds in different settings you need an internal gearbox, a mechanism that shifts the flywheels of your being in order for you to slot into a wide variety of functionalities and allow you to be versatile and adaptable. If that inner mechanism... Read More
Self harm
image: will fisherFigures released today show a rise of more than 50% in the numbers of young people being admitted to hospitals in England as a result of self harming. The reasons why people self harm are varied. One of the disturbing factors within this is the rise in ‘copycat’ activities. People look for role models in any sphere of activity, not only positive but also negative... Read More
Oil, Gold, Potatoes, Happiness, Copper
image: thomas shahanWhat’s the odd one out? Oil, Gold, Potatoes, Happiness, Copper Yet a view seems to have developed that happiness is a commodity. The pursuit of happiness is enshrined as an inalienable right, like pursuing a rare and elusive bird of paradise, sometimes heard, seldom seen and sitting like a monarch perched on a raised dias composed of its own mythology. If you... Read More
Happiness on the brain
image: reigh leblancWhen I began this project a couple of years ago I thought that I had better familiarise myself with current thinking on happiness as it was the fundamental property I identified there to be deficit of in the way people live their lives at large. At large meaning not everyone, absolutely there are happy people, to quote REM there are even shiny, happy people but... Read More
