If you’re dealing with a crabby co-worker or exasperating friend this season, maybe you should offer them some cake or cookies, because a new study has discovered that eating sweets make you sweet.

Researchers have done a study that suggests that people with a “sweet tooth” have sweeter dispositions. Psychologist Brian Meier says, "Taste is something we experience every day. Our research examined whether metaphors that link taste preferences with pro-social experiences (which is why we say, ‘she’s a sweetheart’) can be used to shed light on actual personality traits and behavior."
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In his meditations in the Unknowncountry subscriber area, Whitley Strieber speaks of the use of disciplined imagination and how powerful it can be. This subscriber has been using it correctly, and his letter serves as a good illustration of how it is done, and how it can be taken beyond the starting places offered by Whitley.
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