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5 Rituals To Keep You Happy All The Time
all get a little sad sometimes. It feels like the universe is a twisted gameshow called "How Can We Torture This Poor Soul Today?" -- and you’re the contestant. Other times it can escalate into full-on depression and that dark cloud of emotions follows you around like a fart in a spacesuit. Trying to get anything done feels like trying to climb a mountain of razor blades with a backpack full of anvils while a broken sound system plays…
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5 Rituals To Keep You Happy All The Time
t’s begin with a cruel little fact… Iris Mauss, a psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley, found that those who worked the hardest to be happier ended up being unhappier on every measure she studied. Huh? Trying to live a better life fails miserably? Might be time to close up shop on this blog. Well, we had a good run. It’s been fun. Bye... Seriously though, let’s put a pin in that one for now. We’ll get to it…
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How To Stop Feeling Anxious And Live A Happy Life – 3 Expert Tips
me days everything seems to be outside your comfort zone. A bit of anxiety is part of the modern world. Worry about that presentation at work, worry about the kids at home, worry about what’s on the news… worry, worry worry. Worst-case scenarios ping pong around in the echo chamber of your skull. Your brain is like a close friend who keeps trying to kill you. You can try to think your way out of this but, if you’re an…
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4 Rituals To Keep You Happy All The Time
had been a wonderful day. Now he was going for his usual 4-mile walk. What made today special was his grown children had come home. They hadn’t all been together in six months. And there was even a new member of the family: his first grandchild. Three months old and adorable. He mused about how wonderful it all was… And that’s when the car hit him. He was thrown 14 feet and landed in a ditch. He was going…
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4 Rituals To Keep You Happy All The Time (Pandemic Edition)
e autopsies would show they had coughed so hard their abdominal muscles had been torn apart. And some of the bodies had actually turned blue. From The Great Influenza: Cyanosis occurs when a victim turns blue because the lungs cannot transfer oxygen into the blood. In 1918 cyanosis was so extreme, turning some victims so dark—the entire body could take on color resembling that of the veins on one’s wrists—it sparked rumors that the disease was not influenza at all,…
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3 Mindfulness Rituals That Will Make You Happy
Why is it so hard to be happy all the time? Why can’t our lives be more like the joyous families in insurance commercials and less like the lives of people making insurance claims? So what does the research say can make us happier? Mindfulness. It comes from Buddhism but we…
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New Neuroscience Reveals 5 Rituals That Will Make You Happy
ou want to be happy. Unfortunately, your brain is not always in a cooperating kind of mood. What gives? Honestly, happiness is not a helpful goal. Yeah, you heard me. It's too vague and abstract. Ask people to define happiness and you'll either get unhelpful, cliche answers or it will…
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The 3-Step Evening Ritual That Will Make You Happy
hat's the worst thing that's ever happened to you? Something that you still think about or still affects you to this day. Hold that thought, okay? Right now we need to do storytime with Uncle Eric: More than thirty years ago there was a guy named Jamie, his marriage was…
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