background preloader

Life: How to enjoy it

Facebook Twitter

How to Live in the Moment. Edit Article Edited by Carpedium, Teresa, Martyn P, Krystle and 74 others Living in the moment is all about living like there's no tomorrow. To do this, you must realize beauty in every moment, and in everyday activities. It’s a conscious act that requires participation, not just observation, but the reward is a richer, fuller life. This is your life, now live! Ad Steps 1Dance like nobody's watching. Tips Children don't worry about the future; they play and enjoy every moment for what it is. Warnings It doesn't infer not to prepare and plan for the future. Article Info Featured Article Categories: Featured Articles | Happiness & Optimism Recent edits by: Luv2Live2, Jamie, Illneedasaviour In other languages: Deutsch: Wie man den Moment lebt, Español: Cómo vivir el momento, Italiano: Come Vivere nel Momento, Português: Como Viver o Momento, Français: Comment vivre l'instant présent, Nederlands: In het nu leven, Русский: жить сегодняшним днем, 中文: 活在当下.

Live In The Moment: 10 Benefits to Living Every Moment of Life. How to Stop Worrying: Self-Help for Anxiety Relief. Why is it so hard to stop worrying? Constant worrying takes a heavy toll. It keeps you up at night and makes you tense and edgy during the day. You hate feeling like a nervous wreck. So why is it so difficult to stop worrying? For most chronic worriers, the anxious thoughts are fueled by the beliefs—both negative and positive—they hold about worrying. On the negative side, you may believe that your constant worrying is harmful, that it’s going to drive you crazy or affect your physical health. On the positive side, you may believe that your worrying helps you avoid bad things, prevents problems, prepares you for the worst, or leads to solutions. Negative beliefs, or worrying about worrying, add to your anxiety and keep worry going. Why you keep worrying You have mixed feelings about your worries. Maybe I'll find a solution. You have a hard time giving up on your worries because, in a sense, your worries have been working for you.

Worry and anxiety self-help tip #1: Create a worry period. 9 Steps to End Chronic Worrying. Experts explain how to reduce excessive worrying that can have mental and physical effects. Why do I need to register or sign in for WebMD to save? We will provide you with a dropdown of all your saved articles when you are registered and signed in. Do You Worry Too Much? Worrying doesn't always deserve such a bad rap. Sometimes worry is a good thing, says Bruce Levin, MD, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in Plymouth Meeting, Pa. "If there is an actual threat then there is something to worry about," he says. "If you run into a bear in the woods, you have something to worry about. " So how much worry is too much worry? "It depends on the degree to which that disproportionate worry affects you and how much you are suffering and how much it limits you," he says. 9 Worry-Busting Steps No. 1.

No. 2. Continue reading below... By contrast, an unproductive worry is one which you can't do anything about. No. 3. No. 4. No 5. How to Stop Worrying. Undoing the Worrying Habit Once acquired, the habit of worrying seems hard to stop. We're raised to worry and aren't considered "grown up" until we perfect the art.

Teenagers are told: "you'd better start worrying about your future". If your worries aren't at least as frequent as your bowel movements, you're seen as irresponsible, childish, aimless. To the extent that worrying is learned/conditioned behaviour, it can be undone. Centuries-old cultural conditioning has given us a nasty neurosis: the belief that happiness must be "earned".

Laid on top of the first neurosis is the idea that spending money will make you happy. So: we never stop working, we never stop spending money, we're never really happy – ideal conditions, coincidentally, for a certain type of slave economy. You won't stop worrying if you think it serves you. The fight-or-flight response (FOF) is useful on rare occasions of real danger. Worrying is never useful. Rearranging the mental furniture Accelerator-Brake analogy. How To Stop Your Body From Worrying.

|| Return to Emotions & Relationships || Dear Friend: Most of us worry from time to time. Some worry occasionally, only when difficult situations arise. Others worry more often, usually about specific areas of their lives, such as health, a key relationship, children, money, job security or the like. Some people worry constantly. If they have nothing specific to worry about, they will think something up. Whichever group you may belong to, any advice you may have received about dealing with worry probably hasn't helped all that much. There are reasons for this. No matter what you read or whom you listen to, your ability to eliminate worry may not have increased as a consequence.

Years ago, I worried fairly often. A Few Key Points About Worry Point #1--Most People Are Very Capable Of Eliminating Worry Most people have the ability to eliminate worry whenever they want. Mostly, what keeps us from successfully conquering worry is a lack of understanding. Point #2--Do You Know What Worry Really Is? 60 Ways To Become The Person You Love. Photo credit: Niffty.. Only the time and attention we give ourselves demonstrates how much we love and admire ourselves. Self love requires that we place ourselves at the top of our priority list. Self-nurturing is everything that makes us feel positive, happy and joyful.

When we decide to honor ourselves with the love we need and deserve like the sun we radiate a glow, touching everything and everyone in our lives. Below are 60 ideas for glowing: 60. Eliminate shoulds. 59. 58. 57. 56. 55. 54. 53. 52. 50. 49. 48. 47. 46. 45. 44. 43. 42. 41. 40. 39. 38. 37. 36. 35. 34. 33. 32. 31. 30. 29. 28. 27. 26. 25. 24. 23. 22. 21. 20. 19. 18. 17. 16. 15. 14. 13. 12. 11. 10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. Instead of commenting take time for yourself today! 7 Ways To Love Yourself. Bud / 52 Comments / March 2nd, 2010 / Subscribe via RSS Take a quick look around the personal development world and you quickly find hundreds of amazing articles that aim to help you in getting the most out of your day.

You’ll find ways to change the world, how to quit your day job, dads with a passion for writing, and loads of other advice from awesome individuals. Over the past few years ,I’ve literally read hundreds of blogs and in the process have grown a tremendous amount. Despite all the tips and life hacks out there, I think the base of personal development comes down to something simpler: How much do you ? I’m not talking about the kind of egotistical love based purely on pleasure and fame, but rather I’m talking about the strength of your relationship with yourself.

Today I’d like to share with you 7 ways to love yourself and help you plugin to your identity . Forgive Yourself I’ve gone through a period of my life where I was extremely hard on myself. Stop Seeking Approval. How to Escape Materialism and Find Happiness. Edit Article Edited by Flickety, Martyn P, Lillian May, DifuWu and 17 others For many people escaping materialism is the best way to find happiness.

Once you stop assigning value to the objects, activities, and even people in your life according to how much they cost, increased happiness just naturally follows. Ad Steps 1Stop making shopping a recreational activity. 7Participate in non-material forms of entertainment. Sources and Citations Zen Habits. 20 Ways To Simplify Your Life in 15 Minutes | Alex Shalman.com. “In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.” ~Henry Wadsworth We spend too much, own too much, and want too much — it’s the human condition — and as long as we aren’t aware of it we’ll be a slave to the cycle.

Being the ingenious little critters that we are, we’re able to learn, and adapt pretty well. In other words, all hope is not lost, we still have a chance. The truth is that many of us are overworked, sleep deprived, and generally not content with our lives. If we were content, would we be wanting more money, more stuff, more, more more? There is a way out of this cycle, which involves decluttering, simplifying, and concentrating on what’s important. “As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.” Do nothing. “Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.” Pick most important things. Visit nature. Photo by Okko Pyykkö.

16 Things I Wish They Had Taught Me in School. I am 28 now. I don’t think about the past or regret things much these days. But sometimes I wish that I had known some of things I have learned over the last few years a bit earlier. That perhaps there had been a self-improvement class in school. And in some ways there probably was.

Because some of these 16 things in this article a teacher probably spoke about in class. Some of it would probably not have stuck in my mind anyway. But I still think that taking a few hours from all those German language classes and use them for some personal development classes would have been a good idea. So here are 16 things I wish they had taught me in school (or I just would like to have known about earlier). 1.

This is one of the best ways to make better use of your time. So a lot of what you do is probably not as useful or even necessary to do as you may think. You can just drop – or vastly decrease the time you spend on – a whole bunch of things. 2. You can do things quicker than you think. 3. 4. 5. 21 Critical Life Lessons You Didn’t Learn in School. If someone doesn’t take us aside and teach us a few things (assuming we’d listen) before we graduate high school, we are doomed to learn life’s hardest lessons in the real world beyond the classroom. With that in mind, here are 21 non-academic lessons every person should know before he or she graduates high school; if you graduated long ago (as I did), this list represents all the things you wish you had been taught, yet had to learn (or are still learning) on your own.

Love and Relationships 1. Choosing a Mate: Your ability to select a suitable spouse will greatly influence your financial and emotional wellbeing, yet parents and teachers seldom mention it. A few common sense guidelines: pick someone who’s a joy to be around and who makes you happy; know the person well; ensure compatibility beyond the physical because beauty and youth are fleeting, while the mind and heart endure. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Money Management 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. Career 14. 15. 16. 17. Personal Success 18. 19. 20. Aug. 10 Characteristics of Positive Thinking People. Photo by wavy1 Those who have tried to improve themselves as well as their knowledge, know very well how life is easier to live as they exercise positive thinking. But not many people know how to train themselves to let positive thinking dominate their minds.

So let us first find out some characteristics of positive thinking people, then we can start to follow suit. 1. This is in contrast to the way some people see problems as ordeals too great to bear as to make their lives most miserable. 2. Positive thinking makes people light heartedly accept whatever conditions their lives are in, but it doesn’t necessarily mean they stop trying to better their lives. 3. By doing so, they have the chance to get something new that might enable the betterment of many things in life. 4. Keeping any negative thought longer may as well be waking up a sleeping tiger. 5.

They don’t complain about not having or getting what they want. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. How to be Optimistic, Even if Times are Tough. How to be Optimistic, Even if Times are Toughby www.SixWise.com There are a variety of reasons why you should want to be optimistic. This positive state of mind has been verified as a successful strategy to prevent mental and physical illness, and people who practice optimism regularly do better at work, school and sports, are less depressed and have better personal relationships. What’s not to like? Well, if given the option most of us would gladly choose to stay positive all the time. To put it lightly, many of us have a lot to complain about. "Of course, optimists get stressed," says David Snowdon, a professor of neurology at the University of Kentucky in a Prevention article.

The good news is that you, too, can learn how to switch on that “happy” switch, even when times are tough -- and here’s how. Be grateful for what you have. Recommended Reading Research Shows You Can Worry Yourself Into Dementia and Even Alzheimer's Sources Prevention.com.