Personal Growth

Meditation: the best antidote to overthinking and anxiety

Meditation is scientifically proven to increase our sense of well-being by creating structural changes in the brain, lowering stress hormone levels, and improving emotional regulation. Overthinking—what psychology calls rumination—does almost the exact opposite. Rumination means endlessly chewing on negative thoughts, and it, too, can cause structural changes in the brain. It raises stress hormone levels and pulls us into a negative emotional state. In other words, both meditation and overthinking shape the brain—just in completely different directions.

A Guide to Happiness

I want to be happy, but how, when… and then come the complaints, one after another. What I don’t have. What’s missing. What I have to do. And when will that longed-for state finally arrive, when everything is good. The thing is, happiness isn’t a destination, it’s a process. And it’s worth thinking about it that way, because then it suddenly becomes much more reachable.