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Cute Life Quotes to Make You Smile by Manish Kapoor
Charlie Chaplin once said, "A day without smile is a day wasted." A simple act of smiling can kick all your worries and tensions far out of your life. Yet, in the fast paced days we live in, it could be quite difficult for us to stay smiled, ecstatic and happy. Work deadlines, personal relationship demands, social issues, money problem, conflicts, pressure from family members and colleagues are some of the reasons that cause stress and stops us from living the life of abundance.
Good thing is we have cute life quotes to help us survive in this extremely toxic and turbulent environment. One thing that these quotes are best at doing is to make you smile. And once you smiled, all your enthusiasm and confidence will be greatly increased and you feel more energetic, relaxed and optimistic.
Many studies have proved that smile is best cure to depression. Smiling out loud for 10 minutes regularly can help you become healthy person both physically and mentally. So laugh away your worries and enjoy life to fullest. The Cute Life Quotes, I've gathered below from the likes of Will Rogers, Robert Frost, and other famous personalities will definitely bring smile to your and your family faces.
"Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else." Will Rogers
"I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens." Woody Allen
"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can." Danny Kaye
"Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much."
If you form a habit of studying cute life quotes regularly, soon you begin to realize the true meaning of life which is to enjoy every moment of life to your heart's content. As Horace observed, "Rejoice while you are alive, enjoy the day, live life to fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later then you think."
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Wednesday, January 18, 2023
Laughter Yoga - The Funny Way to Wellness By Pallavi Agrawal
Laughter, manifestation of happiness, is a gift given to us to make us feel better. It is generally considered to be an essential behaviour of a happy, joyful person. It is said that laughter is the best medicine; it is a way to health and well-being, as proved by a number of scientific studies. Laughter Yoga is on the rise to give you the benefits of fun exercise, "ho ho, ha ha"!!
For a newfound popularity of Laughter Clubs as a way of staying fit, the credit goes to Dr. Madan Kataria, a medical doctor from Mumbai popularly known as the 'Guru of Giggling'. He is the founder of Laughter Yoga Clubs movement in 1995. Started with just five people in a public park in Mumbai, this innovative concept has grown into a worldwide phenomenon with more than 6000 Laughter Yoga clubs in over 60 countries. As described by Dr. Madan, Laughter Yoga is a unique exercise routine that combines group laughter exercises with yoga-based breathing, or pranayama, which allows anyone to laugh without using jokes, humour or comedies.
The concept of Laughter Yoga is based on a scientific fact that the body cannot differentiate between fake and real laughter. One gets the same physiological and psychological benefits. But when practised in a group, simulated laughter invariably turns into real and contagious laughter with eye contact and childlike playfulness. Laughter works stomach, chest, neck, and facial muscles, leaving people relaxed after a workout chock full o' chortles. This is a complete workout for wellness. Researchers say its effects may range from stress release to reduced risk of heart disease.
"Thirty minutes of exercise three times a week and 15 minutes of hearty laughter each day should be part of a healthy lifestyle," says Michael Miller of the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, US, whose team has shown that laughter relaxes arteries and boosts blood flow. And in addition to reducing stress and blood pressure, Loma Linda University Medical Center studies in California note that laughing can boost the immune system by upping the number and activity of T cells, the antibody IgA, IgB and Complement 3, which aids antibodies.
Such health benefits are numerous, but what mainly draws people towards laughter clubs is a simple realization that they seldom laugh and they want to laugh more.
Laugh, and the world laughs with you, this age old saying has taken the shape of World Laughter Day with the efforts of Dr. Madan Kataria, who says laughter is a common language that connects the world and is a panacea for all ills and negativity in this stress ridden modern world. Celebrated on the first Sunday of May every year, the day for Dr. Madan is all about how to bring the world together through laughter and is intended to build a global consciousness of friendship.
Laughter is a gift that keeps giving. It also helps us to bond with people and communicate with one another. Join this celebration, bond with people with the string of laughter and laugh your way to wellness!!
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Lessons From the Untethered Soul By Shelley Roy
Having read several of my books, blogs, and articles, by now you are probably aware that like Michael Singer, I believe we are trying to do something that doesn't work - we are trying to find love, joy, happiness, etc. outside of ourselves. We are trying to control something that is not within our control: other people and the world around us. Everything we wish to experience is part of our inner landscape; they are not out there somewhere to be found.
Singer in his book, the untethered soul, helps you explore your inner landscape, an activity that for me has been a life long journey. He begins by asking you to look at the concept of self and the inner dialogue you engage in with self. Once you begin to think about and explore the concept of self, you quickly realize "... the concept of 'self' may turn out to be a bit more elusive than initially presumed."
As a human you have been both blessed and cursed by your ability to think about your thinking. The blessing is that it is in the world of your thoughts that you can control your experiences in life. The curse is you are probably looking to the world to have specific experiences and your inner dialogue is acting as the judge of what's happening around you. Breaking the barrier of this inner and outer world thinking will free you from your perceived problems.
So how do you begin to do this - you become intimately aware of your inner roommate - the voice inside of you. You recognize that your inner voice will never be content and at peace, and you let go of "I". You recognize that-"Your consciousness is actually experiencing your mental model of reality, not reality itself." When you perceive a problem you stop asking, "What should I do about this?" and start asking, "What part of me is being disturbed by this?" What part of me is ________ (jealous, angry, frustrated, irritated, etc.)? Singer states, "You will not be able to solve anything outside until you own how the situation affects you inside." For a man not familiar with Perceptual Control Theory (PCT), he has captured one of its greatest lessons. Disturbance is an inside job.
Letting go of the inner judge and shifting your thinking to what I like to call the balcony view immediately relieves stress. My good friend Andrea Christopher once described it this way - it's as if I am the math problem, then I am working the math problem and finally I am watching myself work the math problem. "You don't have to think about it or analyze it; you can just be aware of it." Doing this allows you to let go of the "I".
From the balcony you allow yourself to "experience every note the heart can play." You recognize that everything is just information and it's up to you to quiet the roommate and relax into the moment. Singer provided me with a more spiritual perspective on PCT which is a very science heavy explanation of human behavior.
This book was like diving into the deep end of the pool of my own soul. PCT with a spiritual twist. I loved it!
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Why You Are Not Your Thoughts By Tony Fahkry
Quick!
What are you going to think next?
Yes, it was a trick question since you're unlikely to know what thoughts will emerge until they actually do.
Yet, identifying with thoughts is an unsupportive habit given they seem real when you experience them.
It was French philosopher René Descartes who stated Cogito ergo sum, meaning, "I think therefore I am." He was proposing that thoughts are evidence you exist.
Much has evolved since then, given that philosophers and neuroscientists now agree our thoughts do not define us.
Thoughts emerge from consciousness and slip away as easily as they appear. To associate with your thoughts is misleading since some thoughts are not useful.
Take for example the inner dialogue that occupies your mind when you're at the park noticing a person playing with their dog.
Your awareness registers what you see through your nervous system, yet your mind is compelled to add a dialogue about what it perceives.
"What a cute dog, it has so much energy," you reason.
Observing the dog alone is not enough, the mind feels compelled to narrate what it sees.
There lies the problem.
The mind adds its own narrative to everyday events which we accept as truth. This narrative is often negative.
"People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on," states Eckhart Tolle in The Power of Now.
It must be said you are the witnesser of your thoughts.
Thoughts occur through you, like a radio transmitting a frequency signal. You are not the signal, but the receiver of the signal.
Thoughts alone are not the cause of our suffering and unhappiness. It is when we identify and attach ourselves to them we stumble.
Author and teacher Byron Katie wrote in Loving What Is: "When we believe our thoughts instead of what is really true for us, we experience the kinds of emotional distress that we call suffering. Suffering is a natural alarm, warning us that we're attaching to a thought; when we don't listen, we come to accept this suffering as an inevitable part of life. It's not."
It comes as no surprise that thoughts are likely to change as you mature.
What you regarded in your teens is no longer useful as an adult because you have outgrown your environment. Comparable to the childhood toys you no longer play with, new thoughts occupy space in your mind to reflect your current reality.
Similarly, you cannot stop thoughts occurring any more than preventing vital body functions. Our aim should be to reduce the volume on thoughts by becoming the perceiver, thus identifying with them less.
Mindfulness is a useful tool when we experience runaway thoughts. Our aim is to allow them to enter our awareness and notice them instead of becoming invested in them.
The moment we place our awareness on identifying and attaching ourselves to transitory thoughts, we relinquish control.
Power is maintained in choosing thoughts over others.
"Most of our self-talk is unconscious; we are not even aware of it. At times our self-talk comes in feelings that can't quite be put into words. At other times it comes in little flashes, flickers of thoughts which never quite catch fire or glow bright enough or last long enough to become ideas, clearly thought out and understood," states motivational psychologist Dr. Shad Helmstetter in What To Say When You Talk To Your Self.
Reflect on this for a moment.
You are only aware of thoughts in your awareness for that is where they exist. Take into account those fleeting thoughts that come and go which you don't have time to associate with.
What of the thoughts that enter your stream of consciousness while dreaming?
Why don't you accept those as real?
Thoughts require an observer, otherwise they are nothing more than a floating barrage of matter contained within consciousness.
"No matter how lost you sometimes get in thoughts of lack, worry and insecurity, who you really are is always the same... Peace, freedom, wisdom, clarity and love," states Jamie Smart in Clarity.
A thought appears real when given enough attention. It's as though your mind flags it in consciousness, like an email program. Yet, flagging it in your awareness draws focus to the thought until you orientate your attention elsewhere.
Whilst my intention is to convince you why you are not your thoughts, it would be remiss of me not to offer a solution for overcoming negative thoughts.
Who better than Eckhart Tolle to remind us, "Be present as the watcher of your mind - of your thoughts and emotions as well as your reactions in various situations. Be at least as interested in your reactions as in the situation or person that causes you to react."
Avoid the inner dialogue that accompanies negative thoughts, since it sparks the negative thinking process and can lead you into a dark hole that engulfs you.
To follow your thoughts means to agree with them. To dismiss insignificant thoughts however, allows them to pass through consciousness without occupying mental energy.
If we seek to trace our thoughts, we realise they emerge from the depths of our psyche. Yet, to ruminate on disempowering thoughts reinforces them in the mind.
Thoughts are influenced by our: beliefs, the past, moods, nutrition, illness and level of consciousness. By changing these where possible, we shift the intensity of future thoughts.
Author Rick Hanson states in his book Buddha's Brain, "There's evidence that negative memory - both explicit and implicit - is especially vulnerable to change soon after it's been recalled." (Monfils, et al. 2009)
To overcome the weight of negative thinking, we attend to thoughts as they emerge and intercept them before they wreak havoc.
You won't know what you're likely to think next because thoughts are unpredictable owing to our ever fluctuating environment.
I leave you with something to reflect upon the next time you are inclined to ruminate on a thought. You are not your thoughts because thoughts come and go and you should allow them to do so with little attachment.
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Magical Mind, Magical Body by Deepak Chopra
When listening to this audio book, which also comes in a PDF worksheet format, you will not be taught about how to do magic things with your mind and body ala David Copperfield and the like. Instead, you will be taught how the mind greatly influences the body such that the health of one is the health of the other. When you have eliminated the negative thoughts in your mind on one hand and listened to the body's signals on the other hand, you can greatly improve on your health.
The ideas espoused in the audio book Magical Mind, Magical Body are not new since the ancient great thinkers have stated similar concepts about the connection between the mind and body. The main difference is that it is only in recent times when the mind-body connection has gained a more solid footing in modern consciousness because of the emerging scientific evidence in its favor. And with the likes of Dr. Deepak Chopra, grounded as he is in modern medicine, advocating the concept, we can expect to see this ancient concept becoming part and parcel of modern daily life.
We have been talking about the mind-body connection so much that it deserves an explanation so that readers of the Magical Mind, Magical Body will not be grasping at straws the first time these ideas are heard. As Dr. Chopra explains it, our bodies are the three-dimensional projection of our minds especially considering that our brains - the seat of our mind - are part and parcel of our bodies.
Thus, whatever your mood, emotions and thoughts may be, it greatly influences every cell, tissue and organ in the body. Or to put it more precisely, our bodies are the active participants in our minds. Each and every one of us then is a vessel of flowing intelligence just waiting to be harnessed for good purposes.
The connection between the mind and body is almost magical as to be very powerful. You will find passages in the Magical Mind, Magical Body audio book that discuss how the mind can sway the body and spirit in either direction - joyful or sorrowful, angry or at peace, dynamic or sluggish. Once you have harnessed the power of the mind, you have opened the world into unlimited happiness, health and success. (We can definitely believe that point if the life of Deepak Chopra as we know it is to be the basis)
You will be taught how to tap into the mind using Chopra's unique combination of ancient Ayurvedic wisdom on one hand and modern medical principles on the other hand. Chopra is, after all, also steeped in modern medicine. So, we suggest buying the Magical Mind, Magical Body audio book that, at just $65 for 6 CDs, will be the most important investment you can ever have toward a more fulfilling life.
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Definition of Happiness - What is Happiness?
What really is the definition of happiness? Happiness is a phenomenon that is difficult to measure and thus best experienced by each individual. Therefore you may find varied definitions of happiness but really, what is happiness at least in philosophical terms?
Wordnet defines happiness as a state of well being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy or put in another way, emotions experienced when in a state of well being. Our Wikipedia online tool definition of happiness is somewhat similar. Wikipedia defines it as a state of mind or feeling such as contentment, satisfaction or joy.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an English poet answers the 'what is happiness' question in a rather fractionated, segmented way, which is so true when you think about it.
He says "The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions. The little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment - countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feelings."
Those little pleasures in life certainly do add up and definitely constitute a mass of happiness in the end.
Arielle Essex definition of happiness is somewhat wholesome and engaging. Arielle figures happiness is a true state of mind that you can have anytime, anywhere. Happiness comes from love, wholeness and peace. It is an inner state of being that comes naturally as you become connected with who you really are, your gifts and your purpose.
You may choose to define happiness in psychological or religious terms other than the philosophical approach. Some of the definitions above may strike a chord with you and others won't, depending on where you are in your life right now. If in your opinion, the quality of your life in fairly absolute terms is good, then you could consider yourself a happy person.
There is some evidence that genes may contribute to our overall happiness but as expected other factors such as one's health, income, relationships do affect our level of happiness. Some of the factors are well beyond our control for instance, one's genetic make up, but other factors are within reason open to manipulation by us as individuals.
You can influence your level of happiness by simple activities like exercise which has been proven to increase one's level of well being as it may increase neurotransmitters in the brain responsible for improvement in mood. This apart from the fitness benefits you derive from exercise activities. This is just an example of how one's level of happiness can be altered by simple means.
In answering the question, what is happiness: you could on balance, say happiness is a state of absence of negative emotions or feelings like sadness, pain, anxiety, stress, suffering in one's life.
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Are You Unhappy? How to Turn That Frown Upside Down!
Are you frowning because things didn't go your way until now? How to turn that frown upside down? There are ways out. Read on to find out.
Here they are:
1) Look at yourself in the mirror
In front of the mirror, the frown will look awkward to you, and you will smile and burst out laughing. Frowns don't look good on anyone, but smiles do. Smile more and keep looking into the mirror.
2) Donate to a cause you believe in
Giving away a portion of your wealth to a cause, for instance, cancer patients, flood or acid victims, or handicapped children that resonate with you will help to earn more for yourself because the Universe will have acknowledged it, returning you the favor in bigger chunks. And guess what - you will happily shine through.
3) Buy your child a new bicycle
Won't your child appreciate it if you buy him a new bicycle? He will be eager to ride it and have fun in mother nature. And taking him to the spot and watching him ride will make you joyous and proud. Your problems, on the other hand, will take a back seat for the moment.
4) Gift your spouse a bouquet of roses despite your challenges
Making your spouse happy will, in turn, make you jubilant. What's more, she may have good suggestions for overcoming your challenges when you share them with her.
5) Work extra loads at your workplace
For three months at a stretch, work extra loads at your office. Give your all to it. Pour all your heart's love into it. Be diligent and also be smart. Plan it and figure it out. Then implement. You will find that you are fast progressing and finishing projects before deadlines. That should prevent you from frowning and grumbling.
You will have gotten a stronghold over your projects, and you will soar. Do you think it will only earn you happiness? Just see how the whole team appreciates you and looks upon you. And who knows your boss may secretly decide to give you a promotion for your extra mile efforts. So, it's all good, and there is no longer any need to frown but smile.
Summing up, these are a few pointers on how you can turn the frown on your face upside down and smile broadly, stepping forward in little steps boldly, smartly, and blissfully.
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