Spirituality The earliest mention of meditation involves the Hindu tradition in the neighborhood of 1500 BC. Though some historians believe that meditation was practiced as far back as 1500 years earlier, or around 3000 BC. Or earlier. The origins of meditation were spiritual in nature where meditation experiences were attributed spiritual significance. It’s only been […]
Our Motivation Pursuing happiness is more than a right, it’s our constant underlying motivation for everything we do. We know we can always be happier than we are right now, and that is our constant motivator, to be happier. Every choice we make, everything we do, is a conscious or subconscious attempt to be happier. […]
How We Think We make the following two choices over and over again…and we call it “thinking“. First we choose how to interpret what we’re experiencing. Then we decide how we’re going to react to our own interpretations. Sometimes our reaction is just to keep interpreting what’s happening until we have enough information to go on. […]
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Mental Habits We form both conscious and subconscious habits for everything we do on a regular basis, including thinking. Mental habits are our time and energy-saving auto-pilot way of navigating daily life. The way we react in different situations, the way we walk, how we get dressed, where we choose to sit, how we go […]
Mental Associations Our mental associations are fantastic at helping us navigate our daily lives. We can also change them to live happier and healthier lives. We’re constantly forming subconscious mental associations. Mental associations are groups of connected thoughts and emotions around an experience in our lives, or a group of connected experiences. They can be […]
No matter how happy we are, we can always be happier than we are right now. In his April 2021 Forbes article, “Happiness Comes From Making Others Feel Good Rather Than Ourselves, According To A New Study,” Mark Travers explains how shifting our focus towards helping others to be happier can help us get that […]
The bad news is that only about eight percent of people are successful in achieving their New Years resolutions. The good news is by simply resolving to make life changes, those same people are already ten times more likely to attain their goals than people who don’t explicitly make resolutions. (source) The better news – […]
When I lived in Thailand I had a monkey named Kapang, or maybe Kapang had a pet people…not exactly sure which? Kapang had a few favorite activities. He liked to flip over anything that shouldn’t be flipped over, throw all sorts of things just because he could, and jumping on dogs to ride them. But […]
One of the questions I encounter the most is how to control anger, especially when other people keep doing things that trigger it. The first step to anger management is to understand where the anger is coming from. What we normally call “thinking” involves choosing how to interpret what we experience, and then choosing how to […]