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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Images section of recipe happiness - yet 2 fully explore ...

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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Researcher Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has found that people are happy when they’re immersed fully in what they’re doing. He introduced the concept of flow in his groundbreaking book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience.

Flow means being full engaged in an activity, Siegel said. It’s being in the zone. Flow occurs when we’re skiing down a mountain or playing a piece of music, Siegel added. You can have a flow experience when you’re doing something by yourself or even with others.

Flow experiences share the following characteristics:

  • The activity requires skill but isn’t too challenging that you become overwhelmed
  • It has clear-cut goals
  • You’re able to lose yourself in the activity, so you aren’t thinking about anything else but the present activity
  • Your attention is completely absorbed
  • You’re not self conscious or thinking about yourself
  • You lose track of time.
For the full-piece click here -

Five Pathways to Happiness

Cheeers!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
From my InBox -

It has often intrigued me how some Buddhist masters I know ask one simple question of people who approach them for teaching: “Do you believe in a life after this one?” They are not being asked whether they believe in it as a philosophical proposition but whether they feel it deeply in their hearts. The master knows that if a man believes in a life after this one, his whole outlook on life will be different, and he will have a distinct sense of personal responsibility and morality. What the masters must suspect is that there is a danger that people who have no strong belief in a life after this one will create a society fixated on short-term results, without much thought for the consequences of their actions.

Could this be the major reason why we have created a world like the one we are now living in, a world with hardly any real compassion?
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Going over some older emails ... been slack - this is from Glimpse of the day ...

If we were to put our minds to one powerful wisdom method and work with it directly, there is a real possibility we would become enlightened.

Our minds, however, are riddled with confusion and doubt. I sometimes think that doubt is an even greater block to human evolution than is desire or attachment. Our society promotes cleverness instead of wisdom, and celebrates the most superficial, harsh, and least useful aspects of our intelligence. We have become so falsely “sophisticated” and neurotic that we take doubt itself for truth, and the doubt that is nothing more than ego’s desperate attempt to defend itself from wisdom is deified as the goal and fruit of true knowledge.

This form of mean-spirited doubt is the shabby emperor of samsara, served by a flock of “experts” who teach us not the open-souled and generous doubt that Buddha assured us was necessary for testing and proving the worth of the teachings, but a destructive form of doubt that leaves us nothing to believe in, nothing to hope for, and nothing to live by.
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
More interesting reading at home ...

Thomas Berry re-enchantment of the earth

Ask your higher self for guidance

Gratitude difficult people

Relaxation training

Urban monk - menus?

Iyanla Vanzant love

Maybe more to come ...

Cheers!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Stop thinking that you need to be perfect in order to be lovable.

Instead, accept your faults and mistakes but believe they cannot rob you of your intrinsic dignity. Think of a mother pouring all her love into her little baby. That love is not dependent on the baby being perfect. It is a profound, unshakable love based on the baby simply existing.

Each of us is like that baby, a child of the Universe, fashioned by love and inherently worthy of love. Affirm that to yourself regularly and you will start to rejoice in your humanity, warts and all.

28 Ways We Sabotage Our Happiness (And How to Stop)
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
For our kindness thread -

About a year back, I got off the train and was waiting for my ride to come pick me up. Suddenly I felt the inspiration to write a poem. I looked around and found a pen, but no paper. There was not even a scrap of paper in site. Bummer!

So I sat there for a moment in a predicament, alone with the stunted inspiration. Then looked around a little more. It turned out that in my wallet I had a dollar bill. Looking at it a little more thoroughly, it became clear that there was very little writing surface on the dollar. But I could write something...

So I took my pen and wrote something like this:

"This is a very special dollar - given to you with love. Do not keep it. Do not spend it. Pass it on. Give it to someone else with love, and watch it spread."

I then decorated the bill with hearts, trying to fill it with as many good vibes as I possibly could.

Sitting near me was a woman who was also waiting for a ride. She seemed a bit anxious. I walked up to her and said "This is for you."

Surprised to be given a dollar, she took a second look and read it. All of a sudden her mood shifted from anxious to warm and she gave me a big hug and thanked me.

Small Acts That Change the World | KindSpring.org

Plus their menus ...
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Try these searches - a busy weekend -

trans4mind gratitiude

Happiness appreciate simple things

happify gratitude

Relaxation training

User's guide to the universe

Walsch quotes - good reads?

Spirit library love

Philosophical quotes

Tiny Buddha accept yourself

(Henry Miller) become as little children

Childhood quotes

Remarkable memory

Gratitude difficult people

Therapeutic touch

The way things work

Enjoy!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
From my InBox -

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche describes a yogi wandering through a garden. He is completely awake to the splendor and beauty of the flowers, and relishes their colors, shapes and scents. But there is no trace of clinging or any “after-thought” in his mind.

As Dudjom Rinpoche says:

“Whatever perceptions arise, you should be like a little child going into a beautifully decorated temple; he looks, but grasping does not enter into his perception at all. You leave everything fresh, natural, vivid and unspoiled. When you leave each thing in its own state, then its shape doesn’t change, its color doesn’t fade and its glow does not disappear. Whatever appears is unstained by any grasping, so then all that you perceive arises as the naked wisdom of Rigpa, which is the indivisibility of luminosity and emptiness.”
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
More 4 the gang -

Lyrics across universe

Mum - speakers are excellent

Youtube Robert Thurman - plus Ricard for gang!! -

matthieu ricard - YouTube

https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/862157922392028763/

Circles of kindness

Adrian Bethune kindness

Plus Can you teach happiness!

teachwire.net kindness

place2be kindness

Nadia Dhicis kindness?

Kindness awards

Kindness examples

Ways raise kind kids

Parenting kindness?

Teacher toolkit kindness

Steven Hayes kindness

nicabm kindness - yes!!!
 
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