Articles in Happiness
Article #744
Knowing when to say no is a major first step in getting to yes. How? Psychologically, when people hear no their immediate reaction is how they can turn that ‘no’ into a yes. For instance, when you tell the car salesperson not today, they begin to figure out ways to make the deal even sweeter – to your advantage.
Post #742
Friday Video: TED Talk – Dan Gilbert presents research and data from his exploration of happiness — sharing some surprising tests and experiments that you can also try on yourself. Watch through to the end for a sparkling Q&A with some familiar TED faces.
Article #738
The home inside you is a protected space. Keep it free from people parasites. These are persons who would love to enter and feed off of you. Don’t let that happen. This is your home to be your haven free from disruption.
Post #737
Friday Video: According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, feminism is “the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities.” That’s it. That’s all it is. Some of you might be saying to yourselves, “But don’t feminists want to destroy us all and hate men and eat babies and stuff?” To which I respond: I think you are confusing feminism with Dr. Evil.
Article #736
When you feel empowered you can accomplish anything you desire. Empowerment for women doesn’t mean you have to burn your bra or spit at the end of the bar. It doesn’t mean you need to be aggressive or stare down the nearest competitor with vigor. But there are a few things you can do to set yourself on the road to empowerment.
Article #734
There are lots of excuses for not exercising and getting into shape. Here are some of the lamest excuses to not exercise.
Article #733
I have been studying Personal Development for quite some time now, and within that time, I have learned just how out of touch I was from my real self. When I say my “real self” I mean the person I am capable of becoming vs. the person I accepted myself to be. Gradually as I delved further into developing personally I began to see the lies I have been accepting as truth, and/or accepting as the norm.
Post #732
Friday Video: TED Talk – The premise of his current research — that our assumptions about what will make us happy are often wrong — is supported with clinical research drawn from psychology and neuroscience. But his delivery is what sets him apart. His engaging — and often hilarious — style pokes fun at typical human behavior and invokes pop-culture references everyone can relate to.
Article #728
There is a direct link between the emotions that we can or can’t feel and our posture, making posture important where depression is concerned. In the instance of depression, what happens is energy is naturally designed to come up through our spinal column but it’s being kept, by our posture, from coming into the area occupied by the heart. As soon as the energy arrives at the area of the heart, it gets redirected toward the lower half of the body again.
