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The 9 Epiphanies That Shifted My Perspective Forever - Global One TV - StumbleUpon. By David Over the years I’ve learned dozens of little tricks and insights for making life more fulfilling. They’ve added up to a significant improvement in the ease and quality of my day-to-day life.

But the major breakthroughs have come from a handful of insights that completely rocked my world and redefined reality forever. The world now seems to be a completely different one than the one I lived in about ten years ago, when I started looking into the mechanics of quality of life. It wasn’t the world (and its people) that changed really, it was how I thought of it. Maybe you’ve had some of the same insights. Or maybe you’re about to. 1. The first time I heard somebody say that, I didn’t like the sound of it one bit. I see quite clearly now that life is nothing but passing experiences, and my thoughts are just one more category of things I experience.

If you can observe your thoughts just like you can observe other objects, who’sdoing the observing? 2. Of course! 3. 4. 5. Yikes. 6. 7. 8. Shift Your Perspective in 37 Seconds - Global One TV. 174,203 Things You Can Do Instead of Watching TV | Whole9 | Let us change... A free app that helps you remember. Babble.com - For a new generation of parents.

So you've finished a few goals - how about taking the next step? Instead of doing New Years Resolutions, this year, start a Day Zero Project. : GetMotivated. Overcome Fear and Anxiety by Making It Your Only Option. Also called: not planning ahead. Article makes it sound SO great, but always remember that if it ends badly, it'll be VERY bad. Loosing money over non refundable tickets, renting a car only to take the bus or end up in a car accident and being beat senseless with a phone book by your family, for instance. I've always used this when I needed a major change in my life "namely: Can't get worse than that". Some 10 years ago, in a short time I made a tattoo, gone skydiving and rappeling.

All at once because I hit rock bottom on my empty life, so I struggled to do everything I wanted to. This year I cut my meals in less than half and started running and going to the gym. Problem is, if you don't have a very strong will towards the objective, you'll always find a way of turning things around. It's always something different for everyone, but in my case I realized that I can only do stuff like that after reaching a very very low point in my life... which is great and awful at the same time. A Guide to Meditation for the Rest of Us. Top 10 Ways Your Brain Is Sabotaging You (and How to Beat It) @Firesphere: Not that I don't believe you, but do you have a source for that? @inverts: I did, it was an article on a Dutch website. I'm searching for an English source. It was testet with CAT scans etcetera, the male brain showed indeed no activity when asked to "shut your eyes and calm down, think of as less as possible" Where the female brain kept being active.

*Searches on* A funny side-fact on this: "Female" gays, seem to never be able to "shutdown" where as "male" lesbians were able to completely stop thinking. Sorry, I am unable to find the article I got this information from. If I find it again, I'll let it know offcourse. @Firesphere: The article suggests from that information, that those with a "masculine" mindset (for lack of a better term) can shut their brains down; "feminine" brains always have at least one task running then? The Autofocus Productivity Method: Stop Maintaining To-Do Lists and Start Getting Stuff Done. Mind - Research Upends Traditional Thinking on Study Habits. Going to University- Please post everything you wish you knew before you went, advice, hints and tips, funny stories.... : AskReddit.