Emotional Energy In this discussion we will discuss energy focus and manipulation. How you utilize this information and what you do with it, is solely on you. I am simply providing information to help people understand how it works and to get you started on whatever path you choose to walk upon. So lets start with the basics, some definitions of what kind of energy we will be working with, and some other important terms that will be essential in understanding this discussion. Definitions Energy is the capacity of a physical system to perform work. Energy is a property or characteristic (or trait or aspect?) Prana is the notion of a vital, life-sustaining force of living beings and vital energy. Prana is the life force or vital energy, which permeates the body and is especially concentrated along the midline in the chakras. Prana is the life sustaining energy centered in the human brain; the first of the five airs of Ayurvedic philosophy; the life force governing inspiration and the conscious intellect.
UAE workplace: 6 simple ways to be happy at work Many in the UAE workforce are over-worked and over-stressed, and in such a scenario, being a happy person is not easy. Take the case of Penny Oscar, a British national working in Dubai. She’s in the PR industry and believes it is very difficult to be happy at work if the atmosphere is not conducive. “In our industry, we are always trying to keep everybody happy – the clients and the media – and whilst doing, so we become the most unhappy ones. Most of us here work long hours. We don’t even have time to talk to people besides work with pressure building by the hour. If you are in the same boat as Oscar, and believe there is no light at the end of the tunnel, it would be best to move on but if you can’t for various reasons, then try to salvage the situation even if you believe it’s the worst office in the entire world you are in. And while there is no magic wand that will make workplace woes disappear completely, bigger problems can be made lighter if we try a bit harder. #2 Always B +ve
Fight or Flight" To produce the fight-or-flight response, the hypothalamus activates two systems: the sympathetic nervous system and the adrenal-cortical system. The sympathetic nervous system uses nerve pathways to initiate reactions in the body, and the adrenal-cortical system uses the bloodstream. The combined effects of these two systems are the fight-or-flight response. When the hypothalamus tells the sympathetic nervous system to kick into gear, the overall effect is that the body speeds up, tenses up and becomes generally very alert. If there's a burglar at the door, you're going to have to take action -- and fast. The sympathetic nervous system sends out impulses to glands and smooth muscles and tells the adrenal medulla to release epinephrine (adrenaline) and norepinephrine (noradrenaline) into the bloodstream. At the same time, the hypothalamus releases corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) into the pituitary gland, activating the adrenal-cortical system.
Yoga At Home - HAPPINESS IS... Yoga and I have an on and off relationship. My desire to practice comes in waves and I'll go months on a yoga high, then completely burn out. Not because I've stopped enjoying it. But because of the time it takes to find a class that fits into my schedule, drive there, find parking, etc. So now, I'm trying yoga at home, using YogaGlo's online classes. I'm not sure why I hadn't done yoga at home before. iPad or laptop. Negative Emotions Are Key to Well-Being A client sits before me, seeking help untangling his relationship problems. As a psychotherapist, I strive to be warm, nonjudgmental and encouraging. I am a bit unsettled, then, when in the midst of describing his painful experiences, he says, “I'm sorry for being so negative.” A crucial goal of therapy is to learn to acknowledge and express a full range of emotions, and here was a client apologizing for doing just that. In my psychotherapy practice, many of my clients struggle with highly distressing emotions, such as extreme anger, or with suicidal thoughts. In fact, anger and sadness are an important part of life, and new research shows that experiencing and accepting such emotions are vital to our mental health. Meaningful Misery Positive thoughts and emotions can, of course, benefit mental health. Eudaemonic approaches, on the other hand, emphasize a sense of meaning, personal growth and understanding of the self—goals that require confronting life's adversities. Adler and Hal E.
Modern Success: How It Can Screw Us Up and Squash True Happiness | Susie Pearl What is real success, why is happiness more elusive than ever for so many, and why are happiness and success so difficult to get together? Stress is becoming the number one health killer in our modern world. What do we need to do to make some positive changes so we can get successful and be happy? We started a conversation this weekend with a panel at Wilderness Festival looking at how we can we live better and smarter with a lot less stress by looking at the way we manage our mind. Every day this week, there'll be a look at happiness and success from different perspectives with some practical tools to help. Many of us are too busy to read this article. Ruby Wax was on our HuffPost panel at Wilderness this week and she admits she always wanted to be seen as really busy so that people would see her as really successful and the hot ticket. Is it true that the busier we are all of the time, the more successful we are being? I used to look after a lot of celebrities at my PR agency.
How To Be Emotionally Stable Without Getting Bored NASA, ESA, M. Robberto (Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team Start as someone who loves with above-average intensity. Fall so in love with people and with things that you forget to eat and sleep. Start to see this image more and more frequently, often at inopportune moments. Slide into the dark period you knew was coming. Hit rock bottom. See a psychiatrist; get on meds. Start seeing a therapist. Start to understand that feelings are much more than just the amorphous clouds of pain or pleasure that they feel like when you’re in them; start to see those clouds as mere surfaces, concealing complex and highly specific configurations of memories and obsolete assumptions and vestigial unfulfilled desires and lingering residues of people and things that you used to love, all hooked into one another and pulled taut like a cat’s cradle whose total shape sometimes flashes in your mind for a moment all at once.
The Correlation between Money and Happiness oney and happiness have been married and divorced umpteen times by economists. A recent study by University of Michigan professors Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers united moolah and mirth after Richard Easterlin, an economist and professor at the University of South Carolina, separated them in 1974. While the Easterlin Paradox stated that rise in income does not necessarily increase happiness, the new research refutes it by proving that the higher the income or the GDP (Gross Domestic Product), the more happy the person or the country is. No conditions apply. Between the two polar studies, several researchers tried to bring money and happiness together by establishing a threshold till which they hold hands before parting ways. For instance, in 2003, British economist Richard Layard set $15,000 as the point beyond which money does not fetch happiness. But on a macro level, what does the country’s GDP say with regard to the happiness-meter of its citizens?
How to Trick Your Brain for Happiness, by Rick Hanson There’s this great line by Ani Tenzin Palmo, an English woman who spent 12 years in a cave in Tibet: “We do not know what a thought is, yet we’re thinking them all the time.” gobyg It’s true. The amount of knowledge we have about the brain has doubled in the last 20 years. Yet there’s still a lot we don’t know. In recent years, though, we have started to better understand the neural bases of states like happiness, gratitude, resilience, love, compassion, and so forth. Ultimately, what this can mean is that with proper practice, we can increasingly trick our neural machinery to cultivate positive states of mind. But in order to understand how, you need to understand three important facts about the brain. Fact one: As the brain changes, the mind changes, for better or worse. For example, more activation in the left prefrontal cortex is associated with more positive emotions. So we can see that as the brain changes, the mind changes. Fact two: As the mind changes, the brain changes. 1. 2. 3.
Dear Diary: Who Am I? “What do you wish you could tell your 13-year-old self?” This is a common parlor-game sort of question, leading to warm and fuzzy discussions about how difficult adolescence is and how we wouldn’t want to be teenagers again. Pink has even turned it into a song, “Conversations With My Thirteen Year Old Self.” But in a twist on that, I am finding that my 13-year-old self has some things to tell me. I kept a diary from the age of 12 until I was 35, which is more years ago than I care to admit. I wrote at least a few sentences every night, missing only a day or two here and there, until my 30s, when I tapered off and eventually stopped. But every five to 10 years, usually when I’m in some sort of crisis or transition, I pull those diaries out and reread them. Delving into the past is, of course, a mainstay of psychotherapy. The diaries give me perspective. With the diaries I can compare memories with what actually happened at the time. I’m presently halfway through the diaries.
What Happens to Consciousness When We Die Where is the experience of red in your brain? The question was put to me by Deepak Chopra at his Sages and Scientists Symposium in Carlsbad, Calif., on March 3. A posse of presenters argued that the lack of a complete theory by neuroscientists regarding how neural activity translates into conscious experiences (such as redness) means that a physicalist approach is inadequate or wrong. The idea that subjective experience is a result of electrochemical activity remains a hypothesis, Chopra elaborated in an e-mail. It is as much of a speculation as the idea that consciousness is fundamental and that it causes brain activity and creates the properties and objects of the material world. Where is Aunt Millie's mind when her brain dies of Alzheimer's? The hypothesis that the brain creates consciousness, however, has vastly more evidence for it than the hypothesis that consciousness creates the brain. Where is the evidence for consciousness being fundamental to the cosmos?
How To Be Happy: 8 foundational principles of deep & lasting happiness Happiness may not be quite as simple as some of the self-help gurus suggest, but neither is it as far out of reach as the panicky headlines of the evening news implore you to believe. This isn’t about peppy giddy euphoria — though that’s nice too. Before diving deeper, let me clarify what I mean by “happiness.” I am not referring to the “Oh yay, I found a ten dollar bill in my coat pocket!” No doubt these are all happy moments in their own right, and I wish for you many such moments in your life, but they’re not the kind of happy at topic today. Instead, I’m speaking specifically about the deep, abiding happiness that exists with a consistency and resilience the peppiness, giddiness and euphoria lack. Think of the former as the mountain top, and the latter three as snowflakes. That is the deep and lasting happiness these 8 principles support. But isn’t that mountain reserved for the wealthy, the privileged, the few? In my experience, it is a collection of qualities and perspectives.