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My unconventional mind

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Tiny Buddha uncertainty -

Uncertainty makes us feel vulnerable and so we try and escape it any way that we can.

We convince ourselves that we are fortune tellers and can therefore see the future. We make ourselves crazy, spinning our minds through the same handful of scenarios we come up with, over and over again, never feeling any closer to some sort of resolution.

However, it seems a great paradox of life that it is actually through embracing the uncertainty that we thrive. Our lives are greatly determined by what we do when we get uncertain.

Without uncertainty, we might never grow because we would never be pushed beyond our comfort zones.

Accepting Uncertainty: We Can Be Happy Without All the Answers

Also for click here thread??

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Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Even more emails etc -

I mentioned a couple of artists and YouTube has a fair bit -

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=doors+riders+on+the+storm+

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=talking+heads

Plus Hey Jude live -

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hey+jude+live

He really gets the crowd going!

Here's some unusual chanting - mine is a litle similar -

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=gyuto+monks

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chanting+monks

I also mentioned Martin Seligman & positive psychology. You can plug that into your favourite search engine and find sites like these -

Book Review: Flourish by Martin Seligman - Happy Brain Science

TOP 25 QUOTES BY MARTIN SELIGMAN (of 65) | A-Z Quotes

Good Links | Positive Psychology Center

Essential Happiness Self-Help Books | Happy Brain Science

If that aint enough for you - here's that super intelligent Border Collie I mentioned -

Could not locate the actual video with the dog that remembers 1000 names of toys ... try this instead -

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=border+collie+tricks

Cheers!
 

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Book review -

It’s with very mixed feelings that I write this review of The Upside of Your Dark Side: Why Being Your Whole Self–Not Just Your “Good” Self–Drives Success and Fulfillment; and the authors would undoubtedly approve! This is a bold and thought-provoking book by Todd Kashdan and Robert Biswas-Deiner (who, in the interest of full disclosure, trained me in positive psychology coaching and was at one point my coach).

One the one hand, this book is an incredibly important counter-point to a lot of the emphasis that people, myself included, put on happiness and getting more of it. Perhaps the fundamental point of the book is that we need to be able to handle inevitable hardships and unpleasant feelings in order to ultimately succeed.

Not surprisingly, the leading predictor of success in elite military training programs is the same quality that distinguishes those best equipped to resolve marital conflict, to achieve favorable deal terms in business negotiations, and to bestow the gifts of good parenting on their children: the ability to tolerate psychological discomfort….this is what psychologists refer to as distress tolerance.

The authors make a point that I always make in The Science of Being Happy and Productive at Work: unpleasant emotions are normal, natural, healthy, and helpful.

The Upside of Your Dark Side by Robert Biswas-Deiner and Todd Kashdan (Book Review) - Happy Brain Science

Loads at that site?
 

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Try - tiny buddha feeling bad -

Feelings Lesson 1: Feelings aren’t evidence that we are broken or insane. They are evidence that we are human.

I know now that I had always been perfectly healthy, but others taught me to believe that being a little human with feelings was somehow wrong and shameful.

My feelings were a problem for others. They were inconvenient to them. And as a result of them not dealing with their own feelings—their own irritation, intolerance, and impatience—they tried to control and eliminate mine.

But what happens when we try to control or eliminate our feelings is that we deprive ourselves from experiencing the richness of life. We numb them all because we cannot selectively numb. We feel it all or nothing at all.

So if I am unwilling to feel my anger, I will eradicate other feelings with it—apart from maybe one or two that will be expressed more strongly than they would if we only let ourselves feel whatever it is that we actually need to feel.

The Negative Impact of Not Feeling Your Feelings - Tiny Buddha

All the best!
 

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
From another of their pages -

"It takes boldness, even audacity, to step out of our habitual patterns and experiment with a quality like kindness — to work with it and see just how it might shift and open up our lives," writes meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg. She continues: "For kindness to be more fully realized it needs to be distinguished from being ineffectual or meek. It needs to be infused with wisdom. Kindness needs to be supported by courage and threaded with balance."

Salzberg has been leading meditation retreats for 35 years and is the author of many books including The Force of Kindness and Faith. The spiritual practice of kindness consists of little acts — a word of thanks, a nod of approval, a greeting on the street, or a hug of a friend. In this warm and salutary guidebook, Salzberg presents meditations, anecdotes, and readings on this civilizing and humane quality.

The Kindness Handbook by Sharon Salzberg | Review | Spirituality & Practice

Post it to the kind thread too!

Enjoy your day!

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Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Positive Psychology is a growing, research-based field of study. Beyond just offering strategies for recovering from mental illness, its goal is to help people thrive. Positive Psychology is about achieving an optimal level of functioning by building upon a person’s strengths in both personal and professional life. It also focuses upon increasing our experience of positive states such as happiness, joy, contentment, life satisfaction, creativity, gratitude, optimism, wisdom, courage, love, awe, etc.

Comes from this site -

Positive Psychology Strategies for Increased Happiness

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Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
“The essence of our practice can be described as transforming suffering into happiness,” says Thich Nhat Hanh. Here, he offers five practices to nourish our happiness daily.

We all want to be happy and there are many books and teachers in the world that try to help people be happier. Yet we all continue to suffer.

Therefore, we may think that we’re “doing it wrong.” Somehow we are “failing at happiness.” That isn’t true. Being able to enjoy happiness doesn’t require that we have zero suffering. In fact, the art of happiness is also the art of suffering well. When we learn to acknowledge, embrace, and understand our suffering, we suffer much less. Not only that, but we’re also able to go further and transform our suffering into understanding, compassion, and joy for ourselves and for others.

5 Practices for Nurturing Happiness -- Thich Nhat Hanh – Lion's Roar

Cheers!
 

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
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TOP 25 QUOTES BY ANTON CHEKHOV (of 433) | A-Z Quotes

Plus a few similar writers listed!

Enjoy!
 
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