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Geoff-Allen

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If you're someone who finds themselves initiating arguments with their spouse or partner, even if things are going well generally, then you're sabotaging your relationship and your overall happiness to boot. While every relationship has its moments of conflict, mindset expert Heather Gray, MSW, explains that, for some, "when they encounter happiness, they experience sensations, thoughts, or feelings inside of themselves that don't always have a name but are deeply uncomfortable. They then release those tensions by choosing their self-sabotaging behaviors without even realizing they're doing it."

50 Subtle Ways You're Sabotaging Your Happiness, According to Expersts

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Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Some humour - about addiction and this forum?? -

Couldn't find it - basically I asked if am addicted to this forum - every time someone "likes" one of my craaaaaazy posts it gives my neurotic ego a little boost. Where CAN I go for help?

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Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Meant to be happy gratitude -

Living gratitude is no more complex than practicing gratitude. It is like habituating anything: The more it’s done, the more we automatically do it. Counting our blessings, naming them, writing them, identifying them is a good start. But there’s more we can do. This is a list of 20 suggestions to up your gratitude. Try them out and see what happens.

20 Ways to Grow your Gratitude

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Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Tiny Buddha imperfection -

We are all perfectly imperfect just as we are.

Yes, it’s true. Sometimes hard to believe, but always the truth. Believe me.

I’ve always recognized that I am a perfectionist.

I was the little girl who wanted to know how to play the piano at my first lesson, how to roller blade the first time I tried, how to do the splits at my first gymnastics class.

I’ve always wanted to do it right the first time.

On the one hand, I appreciate my intention to do and be my best at whatever I do, but on the other hand, I see how this mentality has often paralyzed my efforts and prevented me from daring and learning to be brilliant.

Imperfection Is Lovable: Let Yourself Be

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Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
For kind thread? -

There are a myriad of things the world could benefit from having more of. Kindness is one of them. When you are a kind person, you're not only helping others, you are helping yourself, too. There's substantial scientific evidence that being kind makes you -- and others around you -- happy.

In a study conducted by Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky, psychology professor at University of California, Riverside, students were assigned to do five random acts of kindness per week for a period of six weeks. At the end of the study, the students' levels of happiness had increased by 41.66 percent. Being kind had a profoundly positive effect on happiness.

Here are 25 quotes about kindness to inspire you to help others and be happy as well:

24 Quotes About Kindness That Will Inspire You to Make a Difference and Be Happy

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Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Things you can do when life sucks

It’s OK to feel frustrated (but know how to handle it so you don’t get stuck).

When things aren’t going your way then you sometimes get frustrated. That’s natural and OK. So instead of trying to push these emotions away accept and process them.

But also know how to not get stuck in them because then they’ll just suck a lot of energy and time from your week.

One thing that helps me to reduce that frustration so I can move forward once again is to stop my thoughts from bouncing around in the past or a possible future by reconnecting with this moment.

10 Things You Can Do When You Think Life Sucks

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Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Un watched a few -

Quotes from the perfect man!

This one had 220 view and no responses at all! A record? -

Creating a happy society?

Any Reversi players out there?

The art of joyful living

Why play is good for grown-ups!

Then found this in library -

This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the mind survives bodily death. It is the willingness to embrace the fundamental bewilderment of a finite, fallible creature as the basis for leading a life that no longer clings to the superficial consolations of certainty.

TOP 25 QUOTES BY STEPHEN BATCHELOR | A-Z Quotes
 

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
It turns out that surrounding yourself with happy people will cause that happiness to rub off on you. Those were among the findings of researchers who looked at the Framingham Heart Study, which looked at the health and happiness of more than 4,700 residents of the city of Framingham, Massachusetts, and found that people who reported feeling happy tended to form their own "clusters" with one another. They found that your likelihood of happiness rises 15.3 percent if a family member or close friend is happy.

Comes from this list -

50 Facts About Happiness That Will Change the Way You Think Forever | Best Life

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Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
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Leunig always says it so well. If only we had more like him... #wordstoliveby #love #humanity #compassion #inspiration #leu… | Cool words, Inspirational quotes, Christian inspiration

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Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Happy seeker? - not the one I was after? -

OK, step one: recognize and remember the difference. Believe that happiness exists. Understand intellectually at least that it is the ultimate kind of “pleasure.” That it is unlike other kinds of pleasure because it is deeper and more fundamental. This knowledge will help you resist the impulse to dive into pleasure addiction.

Step two: recognize happiness when it happens. It can present more subtly at first until it builds on itself.

Step three: learn the skills of happiness-building. They are holistic skills that encompass every area of your life: physical vitality, mental wellbeing, love and social connection, competence in expressing your talents and abilities, adhering to morals and values that make the world a better place, and spiritual practices that lend themselves to wide perspectives and existential experience.

Are You a Compulsive Happiness-Seeker?

More at that blog ...

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