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It seems that we’re all striving for happiness, compassion, creativity, and calm — and frankly, it’s stressing us out. What if instead of striving, we tried a little rewiring? Mind-centered interventions from meditation to music to recalibrating mental models can put us on a path toward personal and societal wellness, allowing our minds to thrive.

Well-being isn’t merely a condition of life, some sort of personal happiness rating. According to many of today’s biggest thinkers, it’s a definable state that one can make practical steps toward achieving. To explore approaches that bring calm, happiness, and increased productivity, meditate on a few of these great sessions.

Before you commit to another diet, workout app, or "life-changing" routine, hear what experts on the cutting edge of psychology and physiology are saying about how to change habits. Understand how mind, body, and spirit come together to make a healthy person. From endurance athletes to happiness researchers, experts on the Aspen Ideas Festival stage share insights you can...

Friends, partners, children, families, coworkers — these connections profoundly shape our lives and happiness. For many of us, the upheaval of the past few years became an unexpected opportunity to take stock of our relationships. Some of those relationships deepened while others fell away. How can I have more positive, productive conversations with my kids? Do I have unfa...

Whether or not New Year’s resolutions are your thing, it’s still nice to pause and take stock of the year behind and the one ahead. We’ve gathered five ideas that have given us fresh perspectives to bring to 2023, including practical tips for better friendships, advice for talking to kids about their mental health, and how we can cultivate more awe and optimism in the year...