Ben Michaelis
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New York, NY, United States
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Will Augmented Reality Be the New Therapy?
How can video games help to combat mental illness? → Read More
Does Sugar Cause Mental Illness?
Empirical evidence that you are what you eat. → Read More
Violence and Valentine's Day
Can St. Valentine stop the violence? → Read More
How to Ruin Mother's Day
Overnight shipping from Amazon. Panicked, last minute phone calls to florists. Saturday night drug store runs to track down the last Mother's Day card. Just this once, forget about all that. This Mother's Day, do something different. Do something radical. Do something, dare I say, sacrilegious: Don't buy your mother a gift. → Read More
Spring Cleaning: It's Not Just for Closets Anymore
3 Tips For De-Cluttering Your Mind To Get A Fresh Start This Spring Many people accumulate more stuff in their homes while spending more time indoors during the winter. If you look around you may notice gifts that you received but didn't really wa... → Read More
The 3 Best Apps for Keeping Your New Year's Resolutions
The best news is that even if you were born with a human brain -- and I suspect you were -- and you have difficulty keeping your resolutions -- and I suspect you do -- there is wonderful technology that is here to help you on your path.... → Read More
Are You Afraid to Be Alone? Good News: You're Not
Why do most people hate being alone with their thoughts? Pain. When you feel physical or psychological pain you instinctively move away from it. However, when you feel emotional pain there's nowhere to go. Instead you may try to escape by distractin... → Read More
What the Robin Williams Tragedy Means for You
As sad as it is that we have lost Robin Williams, if his death can prevent further suicides, perhaps Williams's legacy and contribution to the common good does not have to end with his untimely passing.... → Read More
The 7 Best Books for Getting Over a Breakup
Some of the titles I suggest will surprise you. Only three of the books I recommended to her (and now to you) are "how to get over a breakup" books. The other four contain life-altering wisdom or inspiration that can be even more useful t... → Read More
The 3 Things Every College Graduate Should Know
As many people exchange their well-worn student IDs for brand new alumni discount cards, they are being bombarded with information -- from credit card offers, to (hopefully) job offers, to advice from authority figures -- irrespective of their actual... → Read More
The 3 Ways Martin Luther King Jr. Saved Your Soul
I would argue that in many ways, this is King's greatest legacy. His courage to proceed in a mission that, by any rational calculation would have been doomed to fail, is a lesson for all of us to learn. Without hope, without faith that there can be a better future, there will not be one. → Read More
The 9 Best Books for Meaningful Change
Like it or not, we are all always changing and adapting to circumstances as time rolls on. The positive thing about change is that with some effort we can help direct some (though not all) of the change in our lives as opposed to being victimized by it. → Read More
The Blessing of Blessing
Whether or not you choose to pray before meals, or faith is central to your life, or you believe in God, I encourage you to take the time to pause, even for just a moment, to recognize the good fortune that you do have in this world. → Read More
Want To Change Your Life? Don't Get Involved, Get Committed
Feelings and thoughts are not changed quickly, and anyone that tells you differently is a huckster. Lasting and meaningful personal change is not like having your oil changed at JiffyLube, as much as we might want it to be. → Read More