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Idea transcript: Five Ways to Become Happier Today - Big Think - 0 views

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  • Question: What can people do each day to be happier? Tal Ben-Shahar: The first thing to do to become happier, paradoxically, is to accept painful emotions, to accept them as a part of being alive.
  • The number one predictor of well-being of happiness is time, quality time, we spend with our family, friends, people we care about and who care about us.
  • Physical exercise contributes a great deal to happiness; in fact, there is research showing that regular exercise, three times a week for 30 to 40 minutes of aerobic exercise, could be jogging or walking or aerobics or dancing, three
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  • So, for example, research by Robert **** and Mike McAuliffe shows that people who keep a gratitude journal, who each night before going to sleep write at least five things for which they are grateful, big things or little things, are happier, more optimistic, more successful, more likely to achieve their goals, physically healthier; it actually strengthens our immune system, and are more generous and benevolent toward others.
  • One of the most important things that we can do in our modern world is to simplify, to do less rather than more. The problem is that we try and cram more and more things into less and less time, and we pay a price.
  • nat bas on 12 Oct 09
     
    This could be useful.
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Mindfulness Meditation: Reduce Stress And Be Happier - 0 views

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    The Mindfulness Meditation mp3 is a superb way to become stress free. If you have stress in your life you should seriously check this out!
Stephen Frost

Meditation How To Be Happier And Feel At One With Yourself Again - 0 views

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    Ever feel like you are not yourself? Ever wanted to do something about it but not been sure what to do? Well here you go, how to be at one with yourself! Simple, easy and highly effective!
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Infographics - How Britain has changed since 1997 « Prospect Magazine - 0 views

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    Richer, fatter, living longer, more indebted, drunker, better connected, politically disillusioned: there's no metric that can describe whether we are happier or living better lives after 13 years of Labour. But there are plenty to show how we have changed during a period of fulsome spending, borrowing and technological transformation;
José Cavalcante

Why We Like to Keep Busy | World of Psychology - 1 views

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    If idle people remain idle, they are miserable. If idle people become busy, they will be happier, but the outcome may or may not be desirable, depending on the value of the chosen activity. Busyness can be either constructive or destructive. Ideally, idle people should devote their energy to constructive courses, but it is often difficult to predict which actions are constructive...
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Why More Equality? | The Equality Trust - 0 views

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    Why More Equality? Our thirty years research shows that: 1) In rich countries, a smaller gap between rich and poor means a happier, healthier, and more successful population. Just look at the US, the UK, Portugal, and New Zealand in the top right of this graph, doing much worse than Japan, Sweden or Norway in the bottom left.
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Sisters and Happiness - Understanding the Connection - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    The key to why having sisters makes people happier - men as well as women - may lie not in the kind of talk they exchange but in the fact of talk.
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    "In this research, we drew on system-justification theory and the notion that conservative ideology serves a palliative function to explain why conservatives are happier than liberals. Specifically, in three studies using nationally representative data from the United States and nine additional countries, we found that right-wing (vs. left-wing) orientation is indeed associated with greater subjective well-being and that the relation between political orientation and subjective well-being is mediated by the rationalization of inequality."
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Can Psychedelics Make You Happier? | Drugs | AlterNet - 0 views

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Can Psychedelics Make You Happier? | Drugs AlterNet

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    Research suggests that psychedelics may be better than antidepressants, which tend to dampen or suppress psychological problems without necessarily curing them.
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    Interested to discover the NLP technique that can be used to redefine a negative self-image and increase confidence? Then you won't want to miss this important demo where Master Hypnotist Martijn Groenendal uses the NLP Swish Pattern to redefine a subject's negative and judgmental self-image into a happier, more accepting version of himself. In this video, you'll get a clear sense of how to help people create a healthy self-image, improve their confidence and drive change. Visit HypnosisTrainingAcademy.com today to hear master hypnotist Martijn Groenendal explain how.
nat bas

Thinking literally - The Boston Globe - 0 views

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  • Metaphors aren’t just how we talk and write, they’re how we think. At some level, we actually do seem to understand temperament as a form of temperature, and we expect people’s personalities to behave accordingly. What’s more, without our body’s instinctive sense for temperature--or position, texture, size, shape, or weight--abstract concepts like kindness and power, difficulty and purpose, and intimacy and importance would simply not make any sense to us.
  • Put another way, metaphors reveal the extent to which we think with our bodies.
  • "The abstract way we think is really grounded in the concrete, bodily world much more than we thought,” says John Bargh, a psychology professor at Yale and leading researcher in this realm.
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche scornfully described human understanding as nothing more than a web of expedient metaphors, stitched together from our shallow impressions of the world. In their ignorance, he charged, people mistake these familiar metaphors, deadened from overuse, for truths. "We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers,” he wrote, "and yet we possess nothing but metaphors for things--metaphors which correspond in no way to the original entities.”
  • people asked to recall a time when they were ostracized gave lower estimates of room temperature than those who recalled a social inclusion experience.
  • subjects who took the questionnaire on the heavier clipboards tended to ascribe more metaphorical weight to the questions they were asked
  • we actually unconsciously look upward when we think about power
  • subjects, after handling sandpaper-covered puzzle pieces, were less likely to describe a social situation as having gone smoothly
  • people who were told to move marbles from a lower tray up to a higher one while recounting a story told happier stories than people moving them down
  • subjects who recalled an unethical act acted less guilty after washing their hands.
  • something as simple as sitting on a hard chair makes people think of a task as harder
  • nat bas on 02 Oct 09
     
    this is a wonderful essay: how metaphors shape the world we see.
Hypnosis Training Academy

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    Emotions can create a tremendous amount of leverage for positive change within a person as every emotion is reasonable and rational within its own context - even the "bad" ones. They allow you - as a change worker- to achieve profound results by tapping into a subject's emotions at a deep level, which in turn can transform the way a person thinks. There are 7 primary emotions that persuasion masters use to do this, interested to find out what they are? Visit the HypnosisTrainingAcademy to discover the 4 Emotions of the Apocalypse and the 3 Musketeers Of Virtue - and how you can leverage each of them so you can help your subjects lead healthier and happier lives.
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