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Geoff-Allen
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Geoff-Allen
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Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Try this as well - yet to fully explore - off to bed soon ...
Dark side of spiritual awakening
Enjoy your browsing!
Dark side of spiritual awakening
Enjoy your browsing!
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
From a dud link - may be even better???? ->
Self Mastery: A Complete Guide to Actualizing Your Potential
For a taste -
Self mastery is often defined as self-control, the ability to exert a strong will against our impulses to steer our future to one of our choosing. But this is only one aspect of the term.
Self mastery requires having a vision for your future self. And harnessing the will to realize that vision.
We learn to master ourselves by getting out of our own way. We strip away what we are not to realize who and what we really are, actualizing our potential in the process.
All the best!
Self Mastery: A Complete Guide to Actualizing Your Potential
For a taste -
Self mastery is often defined as self-control, the ability to exert a strong will against our impulses to steer our future to one of our choosing. But this is only one aspect of the term.
Self mastery requires having a vision for your future self. And harnessing the will to realize that vision.
We learn to master ourselves by getting out of our own way. We strip away what we are not to realize who and what we really are, actualizing our potential in the process.
All the best!
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Try - very well mind improve psychological well being. Not JUST the first couple!
Simple Ways to Improve Your Psychological Well-Being
Plus several links in the actual text.
Cheers!
Simple Ways to Improve Your Psychological Well-Being
Plus several links in the actual text.
Cheers!
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Mental health is essential for realizing our potential, making smart decisions, maintaining healthy relationships, and learning how to navigate life’s ups and downs. While we’re constantly reminded of the importance of physical health by the media, mental health often falls by the wayside. One in four people are affected by neurological or mental disorders during their lives. Even if you haven’t experienced depression or anxiety, paying attention to your psychological well being could improve any situation, whether it’s personal or work related. And with these seven tips you can definitely improve your mental health.
Read more -
7 Ways To Really Improve Your Mental Health - Goodnet
Looks another huge site!
Do a separate thread ... why not!
Enjoy!
Read more -
7 Ways To Really Improve Your Mental Health - Goodnet
Looks another huge site!
Do a separate thread ... why not!
Enjoy!
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
From a dud link - spiritual life lessons - several!
"Spirituality is a living practice...It’s everywhere you go, though you can’t see it. And you won’t find it in a book," Mastin Kipp writes (ironically?) in his first book, Daily Love: Growing into Grace, out on September 9.
But if the modern-day guru and creator of the popular inspiration and inner life website The Daily Love insists you won't find personal enlightenment even in pages penned by him, he does want to share the lessons he's learned on his own path—to help you further discover yours.
5 really important lessons you need to learn for spiritual growth | Well+Good
Enjoy!
"Spirituality is a living practice...It’s everywhere you go, though you can’t see it. And you won’t find it in a book," Mastin Kipp writes (ironically?) in his first book, Daily Love: Growing into Grace, out on September 9.
But if the modern-day guru and creator of the popular inspiration and inner life website The Daily Love insists you won't find personal enlightenment even in pages penned by him, he does want to share the lessons he's learned on his own path—to help you further discover yours.
5 really important lessons you need to learn for spiritual growth | Well+Good
Enjoy!
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Try - wellandgood.com happiness -
There's more to being a happy person than sheer good luck. Being moved off of the waitlist for your favorite workout class or getting an unexpected work promotion is a fabulous mood-booster, but tapping into that joyful feeling on any given Tuesday can be hard.
So what is the secret to finding happiness (even if it's raining, or you're tired, or you just got some bad news, or, or...)? According to the editors behind Happiness Hacks, you can build up a repertoire of daily habits that you can use to spark joy when you're feeling down (because you can't plan for pleasant surprises to fall in your lap—if only!).
7 hacks for boosting happiness | Well+Good
All the best!
There's more to being a happy person than sheer good luck. Being moved off of the waitlist for your favorite workout class or getting an unexpected work promotion is a fabulous mood-booster, but tapping into that joyful feeling on any given Tuesday can be hard.
So what is the secret to finding happiness (even if it's raining, or you're tired, or you just got some bad news, or, or...)? According to the editors behind Happiness Hacks, you can build up a repertoire of daily habits that you can use to spark joy when you're feeling down (because you can't plan for pleasant surprises to fall in your lap—if only!).
7 hacks for boosting happiness | Well+Good
All the best!
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Ego traps happiness - a few -
Not JUST the first couple? As is my habit!
Here is one -
All of us have fallen into an ego trap in some point in our lives, and it’s no wonder why – we’ve been raised to view others as competitors, beat ourselves up if we’re falling behind, compare ourselves endlessly to people who seem to have it all together, and work on making our outer selves more appealing because doing these things feed the ego and keep our rankings high enough for approval and recognition, which gives an illusion of security.
An ego trap is any belief and habit you have that makes you feel like you’re superior to other people (physically, mentally, emotionally, morally, spiritually) and the root of it is the underlying fear of insignificance and unworthiness. Thus, your ego tries to overcompensate for your deeply rooted feelings of not being good enough by trapping you in toxic judgments and a false and delusional view of who you are.
13 Signs You’re Breaking Free From An Ego Trap
Cheers!
Not JUST the first couple? As is my habit!
Here is one -
All of us have fallen into an ego trap in some point in our lives, and it’s no wonder why – we’ve been raised to view others as competitors, beat ourselves up if we’re falling behind, compare ourselves endlessly to people who seem to have it all together, and work on making our outer selves more appealing because doing these things feed the ego and keep our rankings high enough for approval and recognition, which gives an illusion of security.
An ego trap is any belief and habit you have that makes you feel like you’re superior to other people (physically, mentally, emotionally, morally, spiritually) and the root of it is the underlying fear of insignificance and unworthiness. Thus, your ego tries to overcompensate for your deeply rooted feelings of not being good enough by trapping you in toxic judgments and a false and delusional view of who you are.
13 Signs You’re Breaking Free From An Ego Trap
Cheers!
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Try - thoughtcatalog.com happiness
For example -
Sometimes happiness emerges from the darkness. It can take an overwhelming breakdown to experience a breakthrough. But happiness exists when we consciously choose to move forward and turn our most painful experiences into our greatest triumphs.
Sometimes happiness can be found when we’ve lost all hope of ever fitting into society’s definition of success. When we stop putting pressure on ourselves to have everything figured out, when we stop trying to control the future, and when we stop trying to get all the ‘things’ we think we need in order to be happy (you know, the career, job, house, marriage, kids, and perfect white picket fence life). When we let go of unrealistic expectations about success, that is when happiness flourishes and hope thrives.
Read much more -
The Truth About Happiness
Enjoy your browsing!
For example -
Sometimes happiness emerges from the darkness. It can take an overwhelming breakdown to experience a breakthrough. But happiness exists when we consciously choose to move forward and turn our most painful experiences into our greatest triumphs.
Sometimes happiness can be found when we’ve lost all hope of ever fitting into society’s definition of success. When we stop putting pressure on ourselves to have everything figured out, when we stop trying to control the future, and when we stop trying to get all the ‘things’ we think we need in order to be happy (you know, the career, job, house, marriage, kids, and perfect white picket fence life). When we let go of unrealistic expectations about success, that is when happiness flourishes and hope thrives.
Read much more -
The Truth About Happiness
Enjoy your browsing!
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Our culture places a high value on happiness—having the best job, house, the most friends, things in general. We’re constantly in a state of grasping for something—filling ourselves up from the outside. And it’s totally bumming us out.
In this video from BigThink, psychologist and author Susan David says our obsession with happiness hinders our ability to do the hard work of living: being able to recover from setbacks when we inevitably make mistakes, or lose a job—you know, when that picture-perfect veneer we were working away at starts to erode.
More at this site -
Find Happiness by Embracing All of Your Emotions
Cheers!
In this video from BigThink, psychologist and author Susan David says our obsession with happiness hinders our ability to do the hard work of living: being able to recover from setbacks when we inevitably make mistakes, or lose a job—you know, when that picture-perfect veneer we were working away at starts to erode.
More at this site -
Find Happiness by Embracing All of Your Emotions
Cheers!
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
For the dark thread -
Why You Need to Forget Positivity, Keep Your Ego and Embrace Your Darkness
Enjoy!
Why You Need to Forget Positivity, Keep Your Ego and Embrace Your Darkness
Enjoy!
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Try - ideapod.com happiness - at the risk of really labouring the point!
If you consistently put yourself first, you’ll live an isolated life. Human beings are social animals.
Our purpose in life is to live in societies with other people. It can be frustrating to give up your individuality for the collective good of others. But it’s a reality that everyone has to contend with at some point in their lives.
Life becomes fulfilling when you create value for other people around you. When you put other people first.
With this in mind, here are five unconventional life lessons that will help you live a fulfilling and happy life.
How to be happy: 5 unconventional life lessons
Plus a video - more at YouTube? - try -
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=unconventional+tips+happiness
Cheers!
If you consistently put yourself first, you’ll live an isolated life. Human beings are social animals.
Our purpose in life is to live in societies with other people. It can be frustrating to give up your individuality for the collective good of others. But it’s a reality that everyone has to contend with at some point in their lives.
Life becomes fulfilling when you create value for other people around you. When you put other people first.
With this in mind, here are five unconventional life lessons that will help you live a fulfilling and happy life.
How to be happy: 5 unconventional life lessons
Plus a video - more at YouTube? - try -
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=unconventional+tips+happiness
Cheers!
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
At the real risk of really labouring the point - these videos look well-worth a visit -
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=guide+to+happiness+alain+de+botton
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=guide+to+happiness+alain+de+botton
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Also check out this pdf search - I reallllly need more pdf documents on my home computer )
Try - happiness activities pdf
Here's one -
https://thehappinesstrap.com/upimages/The_Complete_Happiness_Trap_Worksheets.pdf.pdf
Includes several links!
All the best!
Try - happiness activities pdf
Here's one -
https://thehappinesstrap.com/upimages/The_Complete_Happiness_Trap_Worksheets.pdf.pdf
Includes several links!
All the best!
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Is happiness a choice - according to pop songs? -
If you truly believe in the helpless-victim songs, take your little curled-up-hedgehog self to a therapist, who will help you see that you do have the ability to influence your emotions. But does this ability go as far as the happy-face songs imply? Is it possible to simply grab your emotional bootstraps and yank yourself into joy? Short answer: no. Longer answer: kind of.
If it were possible to simply will happiness, you and I would both be in ecstasy right now and people wouldn't be selling Ecstasy on the street. Despite our ever-growing arsenal of cheer-up drugs (legal and illegal), "the brain releases happy chemicals only in limited bursts, for specific aims," says psychology writer Loretta Breuning, PhD. "If you expect all the happy chemicals all the time, you're going to be disappointed." People who try to white-knuckle themselves into perpetual glee end up singing things like I'm dying inside, and nobody knows it but me. And when the dam of denial finally breaks, whoa, Nellie! Here comes a flood of panic, rage and despair.
Martha Beck: Experiencing Pain Is the Only Way to Achieve Happiness
If you truly believe in the helpless-victim songs, take your little curled-up-hedgehog self to a therapist, who will help you see that you do have the ability to influence your emotions. But does this ability go as far as the happy-face songs imply? Is it possible to simply grab your emotional bootstraps and yank yourself into joy? Short answer: no. Longer answer: kind of.
If it were possible to simply will happiness, you and I would both be in ecstasy right now and people wouldn't be selling Ecstasy on the street. Despite our ever-growing arsenal of cheer-up drugs (legal and illegal), "the brain releases happy chemicals only in limited bursts, for specific aims," says psychology writer Loretta Breuning, PhD. "If you expect all the happy chemicals all the time, you're going to be disappointed." People who try to white-knuckle themselves into perpetual glee end up singing things like I'm dying inside, and nobody knows it but me. And when the dam of denial finally breaks, whoa, Nellie! Here comes a flood of panic, rage and despair.
Martha Beck: Experiencing Pain Is the Only Way to Achieve Happiness