The Optimist Living
Turn your daily bath into a revitalizing ritual
Here are 5 tips for turning your daily bath into a meditation. In a bath ritual, you can set intentions for different aspects of your life—and let everything negative go down the drain. Use crystals and essentials oils—and forget soap—for spiritual maintenance and to clean your Read More...
6 upcycling projects that turn coffee waste into something cool
You know the saying ‘one man’s trash is another man’s treasure’? Well, it's kind of the same with coffee grounds. The grounds you probably throw away after you brew your cup are the same grounds people would use for a variety of upcycling projects. Take a look at what some people are doing Read More...
Could getting over your fears be as easy deleting them from your mind?
The typical approach to treating fear-related conditions is exposure therapy, where subjects are made to face their fears in a safe environment. But for many, such a treatment can actually make things worse. With that in mind, an international team of researchers came up with a new technique that Read More...
Hanging out with friends in times of stress heals us by rewiring our biology
What are friends for? According to new research, socializing with friends helps us cope with stress at a physiological level. Just by being present in our lives, friends can help your body regulate stress-indicating hormones, which effect your body’s most harmful stress levels. More generally, Read More...
Where would we be without feasts?
This is an important reminder from history: We need to celebrate. In fact, as this analysis shows, humanity has used feasts to transform egalitarian hunters and gatherers into societies that laid the foundations for states and industrial empires. Without feasts we would still be hunting and Read More...
The 20 key ingredients for a plant-based diet
There are many reasons why you should switch to the plant-based diet. For one, the world’s meat-eating habits are fueling climate change. And secondly, a diet based on plants is healthy. For those keen on becoming more like an herbivore, here are the top 20 essential ingredients to make your Read More...
Use this new Google tool to calculate how much solar energy your roof can make
Every day it becomes easier for citizens to join the clean power revolution. But how much will you make when you put solar panels on your roof? Enter Project Sunroof, a Google tool that uses high-resolution 3D data and artificial intelligence to allow you to estimate the solar potential of your Read More...
Boost your productivity and organization with this app
If you’re struggling to keep with all the tasks that make up your day, perhaps its time to consider downloading the app Todoist. It’s a productivity app created to help you manage your personal and work lives, and now it has a brilliant new feature powered by artificial intelligence that helps Read More...
How to move past the shock of the election
For many, the U.S election was an absolute shock. Just how upsetting it was can be seen in the strings of protests that filled the streets of many U.S cities. The results of the election, however, are final, which means its time to regroup and move forward. Here’s what you can do to get rid of Read More...
A vegetarian inspiration for Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is a problematic celebration for vegetarians. But here’s recipe that will also make carnivores Read More...