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Mindfulness: 5 Secrets To Making Your Mind Happy
metimes it seems like your brain just sits around creating lousy feelings and worries. You want this, you’re frustrated about that, you’re annoyed about some other thing and the list never stops. And it makes it impossible to be happy. What would be nice is to have a perspective that helps your brain deal with all of these negative emotions. And there may be one -- and you’ve probably heard the name a lot lately: Mindfulness. And research shows it works. Three big names in…
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Morning Ritual: The 7 Steps That Will Make You Happy All Day
read a lot about this or that morning ritual that will make you productive. But what about one that makes you happy? Research shows that being happy actually makes you more productive. So let's kill two birds with one stone and focus on smiles. What's the first step? Here's a little secret: happy mornings don't start in the morning... 1) Have Something To Look Forward To Happy mornings start the night before. Make sure before you go to bed you…
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Neuroscience Discovers 5 Things That Will Make You Happy
what's going to make you happy? Let's get more specific: what's going to make your brain happy? And let's focus on things that are simple and easy to do instead of stuff like winning the lottery. Neuroscience has answers. I've discussed this subject before and it was so popular I decided to call an expert to get even more dead simple ways to start your brain feeling joy. Alex Korb is a postdoctoral researcher in neuroscience at UCLA and author of The Upward Spiral.…
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New Neuroscience Reveals 4 Rituals That Will Make You Happy
ou get all kinds of happiness advice on the internet from people who don't know what they're talking about. Don't trust them. Actually, don't trust me either. Trust neuroscientists. They study that gray blob in your head all day and have learned a lot about what truly will make you happy.…
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Rules For A Happy Marriage: 4 Secrets From An Expert
ing married in the modern world can be difficult and confusing. What are the rules for a happy marriage? It doesn't seem like there are any easy answers. So I called an expert. Stephanie Coontz serves as Co-Chair and Director of Public Education at the Council on Contemporary Families and teaches at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. She's the author of Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage and The Way We Never Were: American Families And The Nostalgia Trap. We hear a lot from…
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4 Rituals To Keep You Happy All The Time
m Kreider got stabbed in the throat. The knife went in two millimeters from his carotid artery. He describes those two millimeters as the difference between being “flown home in the cargo hold instead of in coach.” Luckily, he made a full recovery. How does he describe the event? "It was one of the best things that ever happened to me." He was so grateful to be alive that for the next year, it was impossible for him to be unhappy. Via We Learn Nothing:…
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The 5 Daily Rituals That Will Make You Happy
u know what percentage of people are really happy? Not "oh, life is pretty good", I mean people who are flourishing. They feel their lives are fulfilling, meaningful and brimming with potential. 17%. Via The Sweet Spot: How to Find Your Groove at Home and Work: Only 17 percent of the adult population is said to be flourishing, fulfilling their potential for happiness, success, and productivity. Less than one in five. And the question that follows is, of course: how do I…
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How 5 Post-It Notes Can Make You Happy, Confident and Successful
ttle Reminders Create Big Changes You know why older people are happier? Research shows as we age we remember the good and forget the bad: ...older people shown pictures of faces or situations tend to focus on and remember the happier ones more and the negative ones less. Yeah, that's all it takes. So if you could just regularly get reminders of the good things in your life, well, you'd be halfway there... And it's not speculation -- research shows thinking about…
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