Gratitude as a Natural Antidepressant

The ring of a New Year can invite self-criticism as we mentally set resolutions for our upcoming goals. To lose weight, make more money, increase in status. So much of this is pointed towards what is lacking. What about what’s present? At the heart of longing is a lack of contentedness. To want is normal....

In the words of Alvin Toffler, "Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who can't read; he will be the man who has not learned how to learn. Our moral responsibility is not to stop the future, but to shape it... to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition."