Feeling Stuck? 100 Ways to Change Your Life. Wise Bread Picks You've got 20 minutes to change your life in 100 ways. Go. This is the premise of an exercise I tried once, when I was feeling stuck in life. I wasn't sure what was amiss, but the routine I had fallen into was not satisfying the inner voice in me that insisted there was something else out there for me. (See also: Change Your Life With Storytelling) After trying (forcefully) to understand what was going on, reading self-help books, filling out aptitude tests, and working with business and life coaches, I was given a suggestion that became a catalyst for some pretty big personal changes.
Here is how you can change your life in 20 minutes, step by step: Clear all distractions. Something happens after about 10 or 15 minutes if you employ the exercise to its full potential. Ding! Leave the list alone for a day. The point of this exercise is not to create a giant and outlandish "to-do" list that never gets ticked off. Theta Wave Brain Synchronization.
This is a replication of a Theta wave entrainment rhythm first created by scientists in the 1960s to lull patients into a deep, colorful, creative dream state. Listen to it for 10 minutes, longer if you can. The longer it plays, the deeper you’ll go. So go. How It Works The human brain produces different levels of electrical activity depending on the amount of information it is processing. During a detailed task, it lights up with electrical charges as it sends and receives messages at a high concentration, its neurons firing in quick succession. While in a relaxed state of sleep, it glows dimmer, its neurons firing less often. Throughout the day, the brain lingers between four different types of brainwave patterns: Theta waves (at around 4 to 7 Hz) are the sweet spot for many brain functions.
12 Critical Things You Should Never Tolerate. There is so much in life that we just tolerate. Some of it we have to deal with (taxes, bad weather, traffic). But there’s a good portion of stuff that we tolerate even when we don’t have to. We step around things, overlook irritations, and mindlessly accept energy drains. Perhaps we’ve become so immune to these tolerations that we don’t recognize the negative impact they have on us. Sometimes just recognizing the things we are tolerating in life gives us a renewed sense of hope and energy. If you don’t know what’s pulling you down, it feels impossible to make your life better. Even small changes and shifts with these life tolerations can result in dramatic improvement in your outlook and mood.
However, when you address some of your bigger tolerations, you can completely change the course of your life and open doors to a world of happiness and inner peace that you didn’t know existed. Think about the poorest of the poor, living in squalor and despair without the hope of a better future. 364 Quotes in 2011 - StumbleUpon. Sometimes All You Need Is A Little Inspiration to Keep Rolling - StumbleUpon. 75 Reminders for Tough Times. The Inspiration Tree: The Pursuit of Happiness: 15 Lessons to Keep in Mind. Sometimes All You Need Is A Little Inspiration to Keep Rolling. Toss-a-coin.jpg (468×599)