Monthly Archives: April 2014
Claim Your Power!
Happiness
How to Be 10% Happier
Dan Harris’s new book is titled 10% Happier. That’s it. It’s not a grand promise, but it is an honest one: Meditation won’t solve all your problems but it will make you about 10% happier. At least that’s what Harris found in his own experience. As an ABC news correspondent, Harris came at meditation as a skeptic. In comic honesty, the book details Harris’s petty behind the scenes struggles to make it in the network news business. After success as a war correspondent, Harris found himself stateside chasing the high and battling depression by abusing cocaine. A panic attack on air led Harris to the psychiatrist’s office where he was able to face facts and stop using drugs.
Attitude Matters
Poor attitude affects choices, researcher says
HUNTINGTON — A person’s perception of their life, job and well-being is an indicator of important choices they make.
That’s the significance behind the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, which was released on Tuesday and ranked the Huntington-Ashland and Charleston metro areas as lowest among 189 American metro areas for 2013.