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"The constant pursuit of happiness will lead to disappointment because happiness is not sustainable. BUT gratitude, acceptance, peace and loving are. Pursue those qualities and you will discover that you are happy a lot more often!!"

~ Christine Hassler,

 

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Can You Increase Your Mental Health by Laughing at Yourself?

Laughter is the Best Medicine

 

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A few experts at this psych site -

Meet The Experts | Psychology Today

For example -

There are many reasons why some people are low in self-compassion, or treating oneself with kindness during hard times. In many cases, self-compassion doesn’t come naturally because people don’t have a lot of experience with it. But in other cases, reluctance to be self-compassionate reflects an active choice, not a lack of skill. Findings from a recent study suggest that misconceptions about the motivational and social consequences of self-compassion might impact people’s willingness to practice it.

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Best happiness advice -

Several to choose from ...

Develop positive habits.

We as humans like to believe "happiness" is the destination wherein there is no more challenge. Everything is easy.

In fact, it is quite the opposite. We love challenge. We thrive off challenge. We grow through challenge. We discover ourselves by being challenged. And it is not the thing itself, but your emotional state that decides whether or not that process of growing and being challenged is enjoyable, in the same way a workout can be enjoyable or grueling and painful (in the same way a workout to someone out of shape can be grueling and painful).

The simple act of developing positive habits in itself brings a deeply "earned" happiness. We are happy because we have overcome ourselves.

The 7 Best Pieces of Advice for Living a Happy Life

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Things that may cheer you up -

Do you know how to cheer yourself up when you’re feeling low?

Some days, it’s harder, right? And on those days, even if you have a secret stash of “something to cheer me up,” it’s not quite enough.

You need something you haven’t tried before.

You’re a creature of habit, but you also thrive on variety.

And with 41 ideas to choose from in this post, you’re sure to find more than a few things to cheer you up.

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41 Things To Cheer You Up (Feel-good ideas for a happier you)

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How to be less judgemental -


Maybe now you’re thinking, “Why am I so judgmental? How did I get this way?”

Once you can admit to yourself that you can be just as judgy as those judgmental people you’ve complained about in the past, you can work on the next questions:

How can you be less judgmental and more open to seeing the good in others?

How can you open yourself to perspectives you haven’t considered before?

And how will this change your life for the better?

To answer those questions, take the following steps. Some require a shift in your thinking. Others involve cultivating a new habit — one day at a time.

All will help you live more consciously and make the most of your gifts.

How To Deal With Judgmental People

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To have faith requires courage, the ability to take a risk, the readiness even to accept pain and disappointment. Whoever insists on safety and security as primary conditions of life cannot have faith; whoever shuts himself off in a system of defense, where distance and possession are his means of security, makes himself a prisoner. To be loved, and to love, need courage, the courage to judge certain values as of ultimate concern – and to take the jump and to stake everything on these values.

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Erich Fromm Quote

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Let Go Of The Need For Specific Outcomes

Not everything in life goes exactly how we plan. There are setbacks. Stuff happens. We mess up. Over-obsessing and basing happiness on specific outcomes leads to misery. My wife and I have been trying to get pregnant for almost three years. It's been tough. We've had to learn to be happy, rain or shine.

Jeremy Piven, the famous actor, was recently interviewed by Success Magazine. During the interview, he mentioned that, as an actor, the only way to work is to go out and audition for specific roles.

The challenge most actors/actresses face is that they get in their own way. It doesn't matter how much homework they've done. If they're too tied to a specific result, they can't be present in the moment. They can't truly perform their art. They come off as desperate. They get in their own way. Their performance isn't what it could have been.

The Secret to Happiness Is 10 Specific Behaviors

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Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in which there is no concept or formula, and therefore total freedom. It is only to such a mind that this bliss comes unsought and uninvited. Once it is there, though you may live in the world with all its noise, pleasure and brutality, they will not touch that mind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti Quote

 

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Happiness present moment - a few to choose from ...

Happiness exists on many levels. Not all are blissful and all-encompassing. Some are tender, some are bittersweet. Some happiness makes you feel like you’re going to burst, while at other times, it sneaks up on you. The key is to acknowledge your happiness in the moment, and look for the little things in life that bring much joy.

You can be happy for what happens to others, what happens to you as a result of your actions. You can be honestly happy that today is filled with sunshine, that you’re blessed with good health, have a wonderful family, sufficient savings, excellent credit, terrific friends, a welcoming and comfortable home, pets that provide endless comfort and joy, and so much more.

Indeed, from the time you wake up in the morning until you go to sleep at night, you have countless encounters and opportunities to learn how to be honestly happy. When you embrace this unfolding panoply of priceless experiences, you’ll know what it is to be honestly happy today.

How to Be Honestly Happy in the Present Moment

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Oh please do it. You're amazing. | Self love quotes, Love yourself quotes, Inspirational quotes

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Happiness accept your flaws -

Self-acceptance can be difficult, especially when comparing ourselves to others. But knowing your strengths and being happy with your flaws has real benefits. Arlo Laibowitz answers the question 'what is self-acceptance?' and shares 12 tips to help develop your self-love.

Self-acceptance, self-love and improvement. It sounds like a great idea to strengthen our skills and habits. But, in fact, it can have a negative impact on us if we're constantly asking ourselves what we should do or should be all the time.

Often, our inner critic makes a judgement that we're not good enough, and we don’t accept ourselves as we are at that moment. That can be a problem, because one of the most significant factors to be happy and to feel satisfied with life is self-acceptance.

12 ways to practice self-acceptance

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Anger poison happiness -

What you feel matters; what you do with your feelings even more so.

Buddhism has great insights in this regard. Believing in the recycling of souls, the religion states that the harm you do will ultimately cause harm to yourself, for the deeds you perform in this life determine your future rebirth. If you are greedy or angry or ignorant (the three Buddhist poisons), you are condemned to an endless cycle of unhappiness.

Greed, Ignorance and Anger: The Three Poisons

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Feel good news? -

In the need for some feel-good news? Ed Gould shares his Top Ten round-up from June, including Canada's plastic ban, a decline in African elephant poaching, and the secrets to happiness revealed in a new survey.

In June, there was plenty of feel-good news to bring happiness to an otherwise troubling world. Read on and find out a little more about the positive news stories you may have missed in the mainstream media.

The Bright Side: feel-good news from June

 

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Personal development is fun -

This site began when I was in college and lists some interesting, some naive and some stunning insights and experiments that I explored as I grew up.

It’s full of imperfections – but it’s also full of truth, passion and weird, unbelievable things.

I’m much older now but I’m still amazed (and dejected!) by all the original stuff I wrote here, many years ago.

Are you in your teens and early twenties – confused about your career, your relationships, or about what other people think of you? Or maybe you are an older person who would appreciate a young guy’s fresh (and crazy) perspective on life after a major setback?

An Early 20-Something's Dabblings in Personal Growth

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Download a free e-book from that site -

Happiness is all around us. So much so that we don’t need anything that we do not have to be happy. We don’t need money, we don’t need relationships, we don’t need a purpose – we need nothing outside of us. All these things increase the happiness that is already inside us – they don’t create it.

If this is the case, then why is everyone not happy? The reason is that we resist happiness in this moment.

Here are some common thoughts we think:

“I need to earn so much money, do this, this and that, achieve this and that – and then I will give myself permission to be happy.”

“He did that to me. She did that to me. Life sucks.”

“I am so anxious about that meeting tomorrow!”

“I wish things had gone fine yesterday.”

By thinking these thoughts, we resist happiness from coming in every moment. We put conditions on happiness coming into our life and we don’t give ourselves permission to be happy.

100 Incredible Happiness Hacks!

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