Category: Happiness
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20,000+ Little Lives
If you think about it, each day in your life is a little life in itself. You wake up to your alarm, which is…alarming…just like birth, you’re groggy and can’t think too well for a few minutes, like early childhood, then you go to work and do what you’re told for around half the day,…
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We Don’t Know Anything
We think we know, but we don’t, and no matter how hard we try, we’ll never know. How many times in your life have you known something, only to later find out that you actually didn’t know it? That you were wrong? This has happened to me thousands of times, and I admit it will…
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Regrets and the Past
The past doesn’t exist as if on some film strip that can be viewed objectively from the present. It exists only in our minds. Therefore, the past is highly subjective. We can alter it as we please for our benefit. We all have past regrets. We wonder what our lives would be like if only we…
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Life Is a Struggle
What a struggle life is. Bills, relationships, commutes. Erectile disfunction, vaginal dryness, venerial disease. Death. At least death ends the struggles, but even learning to deal with the idea of death is itself a struggle. We’re all just flailing through life trying not to die, trying to be happy, but blind as bats and without the sonar. We…
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Some Thoughts on Life
These are some thoughts on life that make me happy. Maybe they’ll do the same for you. We’re all doing the best we can with the knowledge we have. Sometimes we know more than others, but they don’t know we do. Sometimes others know more than we do, but we don’t know it. And sometimes…
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A Powerful Meditation Tip
This meditation tip is valuable not so much for active meditations like these during which you’re actively thinking and visualizing, but more so for passive meditations when you’re just trying to clear your mind and achieve that zen-like state of thoughtlessness you’ve heard so much about but have never been able to achieve because you keep…
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Don’t Worry Be Happy
I was 7 or 8 years old when I first heard Bobby McFerrin’s song “Don’t Worry Be Happy”. I lived in Miami, FL at the time and was in the back seat of the car on a family trip down to Marco Island for the weekend. I had the song playing on my Walkman, and was…
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This Moment
One of the most beautiful truths about life on Earth is that we always have the freedom to completely change our lives in this moment, regardless of our circumstances. It’s easy to forget the power we have. We get into a rut doing the same shitty things over and over and before long it seems that this is…
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The Power of Belief: Food Labels Affect Our Bodies
The following is the conclusion of a study performed in 2011: “The effect of food consumption on ghrelin may be psychologically mediated, and mindset meaningfully affects physiological responses to food.” Ghrelin is a peptide and hormone that stimulates hunger (among several other functions). When ghrelin levels rise, we feel hungry, and when they fall, we feel satiated. The study…
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Fun with Changing Perspectives
Something I’ve been doing lately, especially when bored, is changing perspectives. Wherever I am, whether it’s a social situation, in meditation, in the woods, wherever, I try to switch my perspective from my own to someone or something else’s. I’ve gained a lot as a result: increased empathy, enhanced creativity, and perhaps most importantly, curbed…