Enlightenment & The Power of Now. Zentips. How to feel better now. What makes you happy? I find directly pursuing happiness is difficult to do. Many times the things we think will make us happy fail to do so. Instead I like to focus on growth and developing a strong life philosophy that can guide you through tough times and help you enjoy successes. But what about feeling good right now? I’ve found many different ways to give myself a jolt of happiness when I’m feeling down. Here is a list of different hacks I frequently use whenever I need a boost of positive emotion. Hack One: Goals Nothing creates a bigger jolt of enthusiasm than a new inspiring vision of the future.
Hack Two: Chores Procrastination sucks. Hack Three: Laugh Don’t take yourself so damn seriously. Hack Four: Aid Help someone who needs it. Hack Five: Socialize One of the leading evolutionary theories for explaining the size of the human brain is our complex social structure. Hack Six: Inspiration Find something to get you inspired, even if just for a short time. Hack Seven: Exercise. 33 Movies To Watch When You're Sad, Glum Or Bummed Out. We all have days that don’t feel quite right.
Maybe you’re bored, sick or lethargic. Perhaps you just got some bad news that has left you feeling slack-jawed & useless. Maybe you’re worried about your sister, or fighting with your husband. Perhaps it’s just raining outside, like it is here today! Whatever the case, sometimes you just want to indulge in a little escapism. So, I’ve put together this quite ridiculous list of movies to watch when you’re feeling not-so-good. They all give me a reason to smile & laugh. (Oh, I should warn you… I have dreadful taste in movies!) Enjoy! 10 Things I Hate About You This was my favourite movie when I was an angsty teenager! “Iwis it is not halfway to her heart. Here. . (500) Days Of Summer Okay, this one stars Joseph Gordon Levitt too! I fell in love with (500) Days Of Summer immediately. It’s a total indie rock love story. It is so wonderful. The Addams Family Firstly, I think this movie is responsible for many, many aspects of my adolescence.
P.S. Amélie. Nature Gave Us Four Kinds of Happiness. Happiness is just a neurochemical spurt. Four different brain chemicals create happy feelings, and you need all of them to feel good. You miss out when you rely on one or two old familiar ways of triggering your happy chemicals. You can enjoy a balanced happy chemical diet if you know the distinct kind of happiness each brain chemical evolved for. Endorphin happiness is triggered by physical pain. Dopamine happiness is triggered when you get a new reward. Oxytocin happiness is triggered when we trust those around us. Serotonin happiness is triggered when you feel important. Each of the happy chemicals evolved to do a job. Sometimes you stumble on happiness. The happy chemicals feel so good that we use our big cortex to figure out how to get more.
Sometimes it works. But the brain only releases happy chemicals in limited bursts for specific aims. When your happy chemicals dip, however, you notice. Nothing is wrong . 6 Questions That Will Make You Fee Peaceful and Complete. “The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.” ~Swedish Proverb When I was in my mid-twenties an unhealthy relationship with an unhealthy guy sent me packing off to the corner of New Mexico to find myself. In a new age, self-discovery kind of world—a hubbub of a town filled with people in transition—I was graced to meet many powerful healers, gurus, shamans, and teachers. I became a workshop junkie. I got rolfed, (and got more intense body-work by thick-boned Maoris) and rebirthed with conscious breath work. I went on vision quests in the desert, called leading psychics, mapped my astrological chart, figured out my Enneagram number, dreamed lucidly for nights in an upright chair, and drew down the moon in Wiccan circles.
I know. I was a perpetual seeker. Even though my unhealthy relationship was dysfunctional, that man gave me a gift that I wouldn’t discover for years. Whether he meant it or not, he would say: What’s not to love about you? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 101 Zen Stories. 50 Stress Relievers That Take 5 Minutes or Less.