We all want to be happier, right? In our culture, we place so much emphasis – even pride – on our ability to manage numerous priorities. We rise early, tackle our work, stay late, go home, and hopefully have some energy left for family time and maybe even some fun.
People nowadays take less vacation, work longer days, and retire at a later age. As a result, our brains are stressed and pushed to extreme limits – even unhealthy limits. In short, many of our lives are difficult. So what can we do about this culture that’s been ingrained into the fabric of our society? Perhaps the best – maybe even the simplest – thing to do is to change our brains. If we can change our brains, we can change our lives! I know – you are probably thinking that this sounds hard. Well, it’s not easy but it’s not impossible, either. And it’s certainly easier than trying to change the way our society works. Use these 7 tips to rewire your brain for powerful life changes. Brain Tip #1: Embrace a Positive Lifestyle. Despite of the difficulties facing our daily lives, we can indeed embrace a lifestyle of positive thinking and positive habits. Turning negative habits into positive ones requires both resilience and time management. Continue reading. Originally posted on Power of Positivity.
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Do you have dreams, desires, and goals? Then, chances are, you’ve struggled with fear at some point. I hate to use the word “normal,” but fear is so common that I’d be more surprised if you’ve NEVER experienced it.
The only thing that’s unusual about fear, really, is that people tend to feel alone with it. It’s as if everyone’s out there, doing their thing, feeling a little freaked out — and imagining that they’re the only person in the world who feels freaked out. Nothing could be further from the truth. The brutal reality is that “putting yourself out there” requires courage. Having a dream and GOING FOR IT takes guts of steel — and the only way to conquer fear is to make peace with it. How do we do that? First, by recognizing that fear is a “normal” and healthy part of the human experience. It also helps to gain some insight into WHY we feel afraid, so that we can understand and transcend it. Continue reading. Originally posted on Mind,Body,Green. Making positive changes in your life is hard. Fortunately, one entrepreneur has a bumper crop of tricks that can help.
Making positive change is hard. Just how hard? So difficult that millions of Americans persist with terribly unhealthy behavior, facing ill health or serious financial difficulty as a result, rather than change their habits. A challenge as difficult as changing your life for the better demands help and tools that are up to such a hard task--luckily, one Australian entrepreneur has a bumper crop of advice to offer. Nick Crocker is the founder of JoinSessions.com, a social fitness startup that helps people live healthier and more active lives that has been acquired by MyFitnessPal. In the process of starting this business, he's had plenty of opportunities to learn what works when it comes to making positive change and what doesn't. At TEDx Darwin, he shared his personal struggles to improve his habits and his life, as well as the latest wisdom on how you can finally make those changes you've been promising yourself for years now. He boils it down to these 10 helpful techniques: Continue reading. Originally posted on Inc.com. Who doesn't want to be happier? That's why I've written about what happy people do more often, some of the habits of remarkably happy people, things to stop doing so you can be happier at work, simple daily habits of exceptionally happy people... yep, I'm into the happiness thing.
So I was delighted when Kevan Lee of Buffer pulled together research on unexpected and even counter-intuitive ways to be happy. (Buffer lets you schedule, automate, and analyze social-media updates.) Here's Kevan: We love happiness at Buffer. We've renamed customer support customer happiness. Happiness is baked into our culture and values and the DNA of every person who works on the team. If there's a smile to be had or a positive outlook to take, we'll do our best to find it. So I wondered: Are there unexpected ways to be happy? And I pulled together research about the many unexpected and counter-intuitive ways to find happiness: Continue reading. Originally posted on Inc.com. Do you feel stuck in your life? Does it seem like life is passing you by?
It might be that you are stuck behind the fears, false beliefs and unloving behavior you have toward yourself. Here are 8 common ways that you might be keeping yourself stuck. See if you identify with any of them! 1. You are an information addict. Do you read a lot of self-help books and attend personal growth workshops and seminars — looking for the answers to your problems? Do you believe that getting these answers inside your head will somehow change your life on the outside? The problem is that answers without action actually does nothing. For example, you can read everything there is about nutrition, but if you do nothing to change your diet, nothing will change. Continue reading. Originally posted on Mind,Body,Green. Apart from death and taxes, what is the one certainty in life? Wet bank holidays? The X-Factor being rubbish? No, it's uncertainty.
While we do everything we can in the affluent West to try and make our lives 'certain' – studying hard for a well-paid career for life, buying a house that will hopefully increase in value – the fact that is uncertainty is an inconvenient truth we have to learn how to accept. That well-paid career might turn out to be soul-destroying, the company you have loyally served might tank, or the housing market might crash (just ask the Irish). I recently visited Bosnia, and was moved by the numerous bombed-out houses in the countryside. Their owners had probably lived there for generations, and expected their kids would, too. Then the former Yugoslavia collapsed through a quirk of history, and everything goes to hell. Accepting uncertainly doesn't need to make you melancholy, withdrawn and pessimistic, it can actually make you a wiser, less anxious and more compassionate person. Continue reading. Originally posted on Lifehacker. According to recent studies, happiness increases longevity. Many old wise beings confirm that having a positive attitude is a secret to feeling good, dealing with illness, and keeping themselves active.
Here are my own 11 suggestions that will help keep you young by increasing the amount of happiness you feel. 1. Have good communication; don't argue. When you need to speak up about an issue that's bothering you, adhere to Attitude Reconstruction's Four Rules of Good Communication:
Continue reading Originally posted on Mind,Body,Green. There are times in life when everything comes crashing down around you. But there is one thing inside you that can maintain a steady course, and that’s your attitude.
It may sound easier said than done, but it’s critical to stay positive – even when it feels like everything is falling apart. The ability to stay positive during difficult times can not only help you find a solution for your difficulty, but help you bounce back better than you ever have before. Use these 3 tips to stay positive when you feel like giving up: Focus on your end goal You’ve got to remember where you’re going if you want to get there. Your past, no matter how difficult, has only created life up to now. Remember your end goal and re-focus to bring clarity back to your vision. Even if you’ve found yourself in a hole you can dig your way out no matter how deep. But first, you’ve got to make the decision to pick up your shovel and dig. Your potential is far beyond where you are right now.Write down a few small steps you can take action on this week, it will bring you closer to where you want to be (essentially making you feel better). Continue reading. Originally posted on Power of Positivity. 1. Let Go Of The Ego And Just Be Yourself
We don’t need to be anything or anyone. We need to impress no one. As a society we have become concerned with having the latest fashions, how we look and impressing others. What for? Who cares? We are trying to fulfil other people’s expectations of us. That doesn’t really make any sense. It just drives us to distraction, always trying to prove ourselves to others. Even when we succeed at creating the right look, social status, image or whatever it is we are trying to achieve, most people don’t notice. So why bother? Our preoccupation with our exterior persona has diverted us from our true self. Once we have let go of our ego state we feel a freedom, a freedom that allows us to truly experience life to its fullest without the weight of expectation holding us back. Continue reading. Originally posted on Collective Evolution. Can a change in our consciousness (mindset) actually alter our genetic expression? Does anger and depression increase the risk of getting cancer? Although conventional medicine tends to pay little attention to lifestyle habits, thoughts and feelings dramatically influence our physical health.
Why does stress remain the number one killer of human beings? Simply put, it may be a matter of priorities. So often, living in the modern world, we are taught to suppress emotions and focus on living a 'successful' life - according to what others would have us believe is best for us. In other words, NOT living the life of YOUR dreams can cause tremendous internal stress. Doing things we don't enjoy or living an unfulfilling life can generate an enormous amount of psychological stress and chronic emotional unrest. These damaging thoughts and feelings of pressure can cause muscular tension, headaches, chest pain, fatigue, sleep disorders, depression and drive us to behave in detrimental ways. For example, I've often wondered, how does 'happy hour' (drinking alcohol) make us truly happy? Especially when you consider that alcohol suppresses bodily functions. Continue reading. Originally posted on Natural News. |
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