Becky Blab

My journey to/through Isha Yoga

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“If you want your wife to stop arguing with you…”

March 10th, 2010 · No Comments

“…send her to Inner Engineering!”–random comment to me when I said I was much less confrontational after attending the program.
Please take a few minutes to view this video on “Conquering Negative Emotions and Anger”

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Tags: empowerment · health & well-being · human development · me · spirituality

If you’re happy and you know it–update your status!

December 6th, 2008 · No Comments

If you’re feeling great today, you may end up inadvertently spreading the joy to someone you don’t even know.

This network from 2000, colored for average mood, shows yellow as happy, blue as sad, and green as in-between.

New research shows that in a social network, happiness spreads among people up to three degrees removed from [...]

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Tags: culture · me · media

‘Progress’=widening gender gap?

September 10th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Some new research featured in the NYT on the gender gap contends counterintuitively that more traditional societies have smaller gender differences than modern ones.
For evolutionary psychologists, the bad news is that the size of the gender gap in personality varies among cultures. For social-role psychologists, the bad news is that the variation is going in [...]

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Tags: culture · gender bias · gender roles and division of labour · human development