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	<title>Guideposts to Happiness</title>
	<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/happiness</link>
	<description>Little tidbits of wisdom and knowledge, helping you find your way to happiness and happy, by Will Meecham.</description>
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		<title>How Much Can We Endure?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[God never gives us more than we can handle. IMHO, this famous saying speaks nonsense! Consider that between preschool and first grade I watched my mother slowly wither away and then die from depression after a painful divorce. Consider that my sister recently succumbed to alcoholic liver disease after drinking against her pain for decades. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/happiness/2012/02/how-much-can-we-endure/</link>
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		<title>The Body Didactic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Too many of us grew up in families wracked with pain. Emotional wounds accumulate in settings of neglect, abuse, bereavement, molestation, violence, and misery. As adults, these ancient injuries undermine our happiness. We often choose poorly in relationships, careers, and pastimes. Even if we don&#8217;t make gross mistakes, we lack the confidence to endorse our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/happiness/2012/01/the-body-didactic/</link>
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		<title>Bodily Seduction as Invitation to Mindfulness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine someone asks you this question: &#8220;What are you?&#8221; We seldom get queried in this way, since the more typical questions are: &#8220;Who are you?&#8221; or &#8220;What do you do?&#8221; So take a moment to answer the question of what you consider yourself to be, first and foremost. Some of us will answer with our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/happiness/2012/01/bodily-seduction-as-invitation-to-mindfulness/</link>
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		<title>Rising Above Words</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Language has enabled humanity&#8217;s success, but it has also caused many of our problems. As a result, and even though I like to think of myself as a writer, my relationship with words feels conflicted. On the one hand, they&#8217;re fun to work with and they communicate ideas, but on the other they lead to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/happiness/2012/01/rising-above-words/</link>
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		<title>The Advantage of Disadvantage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Life promises us nothing but the experience of living until we die. We cannot expect our dreams to be fulfilled. We cannot avoid hardship and loss. These principles apply to all. But even though no one can squeeze guarantees out of fate, there is great unevenness in our fortunes. Some people simply seem luckier than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/happiness/2012/01/escaping-the-whirlpool-of-words/</link>
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		<title>The Threefold Power of Silence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At some point in every human life, pain threatens to unravel everything that matters. For some of us the day comes in childhood. We may suffer the death of a parent, unspeakable trauma, or simple grinding neglect. For others life feels fairly comfortable until adulthood, but sooner or later fate steers us off our desired [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/happiness/2012/01/the-threefold-power-of-silence/</link>
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		<title>The First Steps Toward Freedom From Despair</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you feel anxious, hopeless, discouraged, or depressed? If so I have good news: you can break free from all that negativity. The trick is to learn to make the mind work toward your best interests rather than against them. Ever since starting this blog, I&#8217;ve sung the praises of meditation and right attitude as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/happiness/2011/12/the-first-steps-toward-freedom-from-despair/</link>
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		<title>Evolved Madness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why did our minds evolve with the capacity to go mad? Why are our emotions capable of disabling us? Why did we end up with feelings at all? Let&#8217;s start with the last question. When evolutionary biologists study emotion, they usually ask about its survival value. What is it that makes feelings useful to a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/happiness/2011/11/the-evolutionary-spirit/</link>
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		<title>Moving from Depression to Bliss</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is such a thing as bliss. One can feel it when life goes well. A new love, a new baby, the delicate colors of dawn, and quiet contemplation can all activate it. We know it well; we seek it. It feels warm, full, and embracing. When we are fortunate enough to be wrapped in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/happiness/2011/11/moving-from-depression-to-bliss/</link>
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		<title>A Crazy Camp Idea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What if instead of psychiatric hospitals, we created spirit-healing camps? Not long ago I wrote a post proposing that Mental Health Day be renamed Spiritual Health Day. In that essay I explained how it seems to me that spiritual malady would be a more accurate and less damaging label than mental illness. With that in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/happiness/2011/11/a-crazy-camp-idea/</link>
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