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Of course it is not that simple to implement but it is a good start to identify what works best for you and keep doing it and stop what doesn’t work.
For more advice read the article : The Costanza Principle: Better Decisions Through Your Inner Contrarian ( Original article published in 2014 in lifehacker.com written by Thorin Klosowski )
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results-Albert Einstein
Everyone wants to be happy, but the biggest obstacle to that is the mushy thing inside your skull that you think with.
Source: www.cracked.com
The brain is designed to put more weight on negative thoughts than on positive ones. This imbalance takes us away from experiencing positive emotions such as joy, gratitude or hope.
Having positive emotions helps us become relaxed, playful and learn new skills more easily.
However, it is important to have a certain amount of negative emotions to be able to be creative and resilient.
Related references:
Perception and Behavior: How To Stimulate Creativity
Updated Thinking on Positivity Ratios Barbara L. Fredrickson
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We have only begun to look at the evidence, but it appears that different aspects of well-being matter for health in different ways depending on the cultural context where people reside
Source: blogs.plos.org
Well-being in the West is formulated more in terms of the individual and how he or she may feel about how they’re doing in life.
In the East, well-being is much more about the self embedded within social relationships; for example, how well you’re doing in meeting your obligations to others.
In the U.S., self-report tools ask people to report on their levels of positive and negative affect. Usually the two types of affect tend to be inversely correlated. Emotions are strongly related to people’s health in the U.S.: those with more positive and less negative affect report better health. This is true even when we look at more objective health criteria, like stress hormones, or other biological risk factors.
That is not true in Japan. Both affects tend to be more moderately reported. That is, there is no cultural prescription for feeling mostly positive emotion and not feeling much negative. In Japan there’s nothing wrong with feeling negative emotion; it’s not viewed as something amiss that possibly needs to be fixed in therapy
In the West, the core objective is to get people out of the experience of negative emotion – whether it’s anxiety or depression. The way that well-being tries to do that is to get patients to focus on their experiences of well-being by keeping daily diaries of positive experience.
In Japan therapy is designed to treat distressed or maladjusted people, but the focus is not on fixing emotions. In fact, they are viewed as beyond the person’s control. Emotions come and go and people do not control them. They may be positive or negative, and you can observe them, but it’s not worth your time to try to fix them. What you can fix is what you do. So the therapy tries to get people to shift into thinking not so much about how they feel, but what they are doing.
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Do you keep failing to lose weight? Your mindset might be preventing successful weight loss. Find out how to change this.
Source: low-carb-support.com
This apply to any kind of change, not only for loosing weight :
We all don’t like discomfort and change is about making you uncomfortable, so embrace it rather than trying to avoid the pain.
No pain no gain: yes if you want changes that last you will have to give up some things you really enjoy but the key is to replace habits that don’t serve your goals by new habits you equally enjoy
Focus on the process rather than on the end results, nothing is happening overnight.
Check if you are mentally and physically equipped to make the changes you need. It is better to postpone starting a change project if it is not the right timing rather than trying for a couple of days or week, failing and blaming yourself for lack of will power. It will sure make your self-esteem goes down
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Got a know-it-all in your life who knows everything except, perhaps, how to act like a real human being? Read on for tips on how to deal.
According to the author of this article, Susan Davis, the Know It All (KIAs) are part of the most difficult people in the world to deal with, along with :
*The bullies
*The stealth destroyers
*The “yes” people
**The complainers
*The martyrs
There are KIAs everywhere but it is particularly annoying when this type of person is your boss, employee or co-worker.
So what can you do when you are engaged in a dead-end conversation with a KIA or worse with a clique of KIAs?
No matter what you say, those people will never be interested in your ideas if they don’t think like you. They usually use criticism, condescending or sarcastic tone and even try to intimidate you.
KIA people lack basic emotional intelligence and are self-defensive trying to exclude anybody who are not admiring their intelligence or agree with their truth or faith.
As much as possible stay calm and relaxed not trying to argue at all. You will always lose if you try to battle with their ego. In addition, it is not good for your heart and well-being as you may feel frustrated and angry.
In case having a conversation is unavoidable, then ask the KIA person questions about their field of expertise they will be more than happy to teach you something.
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Related Article : The 5 Signs of a Bad Leader
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Fetal facial development is essential not only for postnatal bonding between parents and child, but also theoretically for the study of the origins of affect. However, how such movements become coordinated is poorly understood. 4-D ultrasound visualisation allows an objective coding of fetal facial movements.
Interesting study analysing specific movements of facial muscles of fetuses in the womb thanks to 4D ultrasounds.
This research has shown that specific facial muscles movements could be linked to specific emotions helping babies communicate long before the language is developed.
More research should be done but we can maybe conclude that those fetal expressions become unconscious facial micro-movements in adults triggered by emotions and that there are universal across cultures
See on www.plosone.org
Facial Expressions Of Emotion Across Cultures: Are They Innate or Learned ?
Your body language shapes who you are | Video on TED.com
Guide to Reading Microexpressions
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Would you sacrifice one person to save five? Such moral choices could depend on whether you are using a foreign language or your native tongue. A new study from psychologists finds that people using a foreign language take a relatively utilitarian approach to moral dilemmas, making decisions based on assessments of what’s best for the common good.
For example, when you use a foreign language you reduce your emotional response impacting the way you make decisions.
With less emotional involvement people have a tendency to use utilitarian approach.
Decisions appear to be made differently when processed in a foreign language
See on www.sciencedaily.com
