Category: Happiness
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How to Breathe Correctly for Optimal Health, Mood, Learning & Performance
A Huberman Lab Resource The respiratory system is unique among brain and bodily functions in that it interfaces between our conscious and our subconscious. Breathing does not require that we pay attention to it or that we are even aware of it (it’s an automatic function like digestion or heartbeat). But, at any moment, we… Read more
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10 Questions for Finding Yourself
Free Your Brain to Find Your Purpose “You must know yourself to grow yourself.” —John Maxwell Did you go off to find yourself only to come back still lost? Yeah, me too. With no map, it’s hard to find what it is we’re looking for. So here are a few things that will get us… Read more
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Find Your Core Values
Values are Our Guideposts in Life “When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.” ~ Roy E. Disney Our personal core values are the guiding principles that shape our actions, decisions, and behavior throughout life. Identifying and understanding our authentic core values can help us live more intentional and fulfilling lives. Once… Read more
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Turn Your Dreams into Reality
Coach Yourself: The Rocking Chair Journal “The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.” ~William Wordsworth Our life will go in the direction of our strongest thoughts. Studies are numerous that support this truth, but it only takes an observing eye to see it’s a self-evident concept. People… Read more
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Lovingkindness Meditation
Calm Down While Lifting Others Up Loving Kindness Meditation (LKM) is intended to develop feelings of goodwill and warmth toward others. It has been found to quickly increase positive emotions and decrease negative ones, decrease pain and migraine headaches, reduce symptoms of posttraumatic stress, increase gray matter in the emotional processing areas of the brain,… Read more
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5 Things that Harm Your Brain
Your Amazing Brain The brain is the most amazing, complex, energy hungry organ in the universe! Your Brain is Your Most Valuable Commodity!!! DID YOU KNOW? “We only use 10% of our brain” is a myth. We use all of our brain all of the time (admittedly, some more efficiently than others). Consider these statistics… Read more
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8 Beliefs That Will Keep You Stuck
… and What to do About It! Beliefs drive behavior. If you want to change what you do, you have to change what you believe! Do any of these sound familiar to you? Belief # 1 I assume I will grow. On the first day of school, the children brought gifts for their teacher.The supermarket… Read more
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Increase Serotonin Naturally
and Feelings of Wellbeing 6 Ways to increase serotonin naturally: 1. FOOD But it’s not as simple as eating tryptophan-rich foods, thanks to something called the blood-brain barrier. This is a protective sheath around your brain that controls what goes in and out of your brain. But there may be a way to bypass the… Read more
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Find Your Core Values
Core Values “When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.” ~ Roy E. Disney Our personal core values are the guiding principles that shape our actions, decisions, and behavior throughout life. Identifying and understanding our authentic core values can help us live more intentional and fulfilling lives. Once we have a clear… Read more
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3 Simple Steps to be Happier
Be Happy! Are you the “glass half empty” person in the room? Yeah, I was too. Then I did something that transformed my life. I changed my psychology! The surprising thing was how simple it was. Here’s how. I became intentional about changing a few small things that returned huge results. I started with three… Read more