Lots of famous experts tell us we need to have a specific morning routine every day. There is a certain amount of value in this. If your mind and body do the same thing all the time, they can grow in a predictable fashion. But there's also a
It took me a while to write that headline, and it's not long enough to express what I was trying to say. The point I was making is that an AI like ChatGPT 5.0 or Gemini if carefully prompted can tell your future, in a way. What
Remember the famous Internet phenomenon years ago when a picture of a dress looked blue to some people, and gold to others? You can create the same thing with ChatGPT 5.0. I just did. The result is above. Different people report at least 4 different colors for this knitted
Why do we like the metaphor of the buffet so much when describing how transformative it can be to find out which sequence of core feeling-states serve your well-being the best? Consider ancient Roman Emperors. They loved to eat. Some of them loved eating so much that they refused to
When I found this quote by Albert Einstein, I immediately had all sorts of thoughts about how this works, and how it has appeared in my own life. I was going to brain dump all that stuff here, but then I thought: I'd MUCH RATHER hear examples from
Imagine that you are walking on the beach, and you see an ancient brass bottle, looking like it's been in the ocean for a thousand years. You pick it up, rub it (since you were born with an intuitive sense of what to do in such cases) and
In 1841 Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote "The World will certainly accept your own measure of your doing and being, whether you sneak about and deny your own name, or whether you see your work produced to the concave sphere of the heavens, one with the revolution of the stars.
You've heard the saying "Give a man fish, and he eats for a day. Teach him to fish, and he eats for a lifetime." Did you know that this phrase, when pushed to its limits, can reveal a vast store of possibilities? You could continue the
Now that you know how the feeling-state Portals operate, it's time to explore your own. We use Brainstorming, Curiosity, Awe, Gratitude, Laughter, and the Hero's Journey as examples to explain the process, because everyone has had experience with them. But everyone has unique emotional circuits that
If you’ve been online at all in the past year, you’ve probably seen dozens of headlines promising life-changing AI prompts. Some of them deliver, some of them don’t. I’ve written about a few myself, and I’ll be honest—sometimes my results didn’t quite live
If you've been following this blog you know that AI Happiness Accelerator claims that there are 6 or 7 or 8 Core human experiences which, when felt regularly, contribute to fundamental well-being. You also know that key to this is what we call the Checklist. At various time
Today is September 11, the anniversary of the attacks in 2001. It's a natural time to ask questions like "How do the protocols initiated by AI Happiness Accelerator, which seem to aim for individual well-being, relate to the bigger picture of wars, famines, violence, pandemics, and natural
CAMBRIDGE, UK, September 11, 2025 –The Hero Awards, which has recognized outstanding achievements in the pursuit of the UN’s 17 Sustainability Goals since 2019, has announced a new program aimed at allowing citizen activists to achieve recognition for their efforts through following a unique, customized progression cycle of 7
One of the co-founders of AI Happiness Accelerator, Amy Chang, used to travel to remote corners of the earth visiting First Nations peoples and neolithic tribes. She liked to meet with Shamans, chiefs, griots, and Elders to imbibe their wisdom. Often the Shaman, or whatever name they used, would be
Where did the group which we now call AI Happiness Accelerator test its claims? How did it research the concept of a Recommended Daily Allowance for feelings and emotions? It started back in 2016 with conversations among a group of therapists, psychologists, and coaches, including Tamara Hanson LCSW, Dr. Savannah
Your brain loves choices. It especially loves a situation when all the choices are welcome. Look at the image above and notice how your eyes flit from one dish to the other. We call this the buffet principle, and it is especially relevant to AI Happiness Accelerator. When your body-mind
The Six Portals are a selection of core experiences that seem to be common to many humans. But there is no limit to the number of such experiencess that exist. You can discover or create new ones all the time. They should be thought-feeling constructions that continuously fill you with
We have outlined how you have different Selves, or personality aspects, or Portals as we like to call them (since each is a gateway to a different kind of truth or experience). You might think that these individual 'selves' have learned how to get along, having lived in
To explore how your body-mind benefits from maximizing the effectiveness of the Six Portals (or core experiences, or Selves, or internal Personae) we need a way to check in with each one. At any given moment of your day, one or more of the Portals is ripe for attention. You
What we call the Micro-experiment Portal, or the Experimental Self, was already around 300,000 years ago when Homo Sapiens first appeared on the Savannahs of Africa. Roaming around the dangerous landscape, hominids had to test everything, to examine every footprint and analyze every sound to see if they signalled
The Hero's Journey is a framework made famous by Joseph Campbell, summarizing a pattern which is found in the myths of many cultures. The Hero goes through a series of challenges: the call, the refusal of the call, the mentor, the cave of desolation, the defeat of the
Years ago a group of NASA scientists in the Apollo program were working on how to land people on the moon. But when the program was first announced in the early sixties, there were whole new technologies that had to be developed, because no one had done anything like this
Our claim, which is hardly unique, is that everyone benefits from regular laughter. The guru of the Laughter movement is Dr. Madan Kataria, who is a Cardiologist from India. In the early 90’s he read a study that says laughter reduces blood pressure, which was an issue with his
Awe is a universal human experience, and a great contributor to fundamental well-being. It is one of our Six Portals. Here is a an experience which consistently wins our contests for web content intended to evoke wonder. It's called arkadia.xyz and it’s an infinite regressive virtual