The burger or the salad? The treadmill or the sofa? Spend or save? Throughout the course of a single day, choices like these test our willpower repeatedly . . . and sometimes the choices we make can leave us feeling like a failure. If you’ve ever made a vow to practice better self-control, you know […]
Spirituality and Self-Control
Wouldn’t it be nice if there was an easy way to have more self-control? Imagine how different our daily lives would be if we could tolerate more discomfort, increase our patience, delay gratification, and refrain from impulsive responses. All of these qualities were found to increase after subjects were primed with a spiritually oriented task […]