How Are Your Lifestyle Choices Impacting Your Health? Quantitative Feedback
Over the years, the way I eat has gradually changed. Growing up, it was definitely ‘meat, potatoes, vegetables’, with milk and cereal for breakfast. => As a young adult, the milk and cereal disappeared, to be replaced by (non-dairy) homemade fruit smoothies – a change that relieved the lower-abdominal pain I had suffered regularly for as long as I could remember. => I dabbled (for about five years) with vegetarianism, and thoroughly enjoyed the assorted ethnic meals (Indian, Indonesian, Italian, Mexican…) that formed my take on vegetarian-eating. => Moved to...
Read MoreHow Are You Going to Choose to be Today?
How are you today? Have you ever given any thought to that question? Besides just answering “Fine, how are you?”, without really paying attention, I mean. The question kind of implies, to me at least, that how you are today is something that just happens, and is beyond your control. And, indeed, most of us just go through the day reacting to whatever comes our way. So, if you’re tired and grumpy, it’s because you slept poorly, had an argument with your spouse, got in to work late… What if, instead of leaving ‘how you are’ to chance, you decided to...
Read MoreAre You Unhappy? Experience Bliss By Living In This Moment
Are you happy right now? I mean, REALLY happy? If you were, you probably wouldn’t be reading this article, so I’ll assume that there’s room for improvement. Unhappiness, or at least dissatisfaction, is kind of the norm these days, at least if you’re over the age of about two. What’s interesting, if you stop to think about it, is that most unhappiness is not actually due to something that’s happening right now, but is in fact related to something that happened, or didn’t happen, in the past, or something that may, or may not, happen in the future....
Read MoreAre you Unhappy? Lasting Happiness Comes From Within
If only I had a boyfriend, I’d be happy… If only I could find a job, I’d be happy… If only we had more money, I’d be happy… Does this sound like you? Prepared to be happy, someday. Happiness is a state of being, but it is also a choice. If you are not happy right now, ‘because’ you don’t have a boyfriend, or ‘because’ you don’t have a job, or … then it is because you have made the decision, whether consciously or unconsciously, to respond to your current situation by being unhappy. Starting today, why not...
Read MoreAre You Unhappy? Try Adopting an Attitude of Gratitude!
What makes you unhappy? For that matter, what makes anyone unhappy? At some level, most unhappiness is caused by a combination of two things: wanting things to be somehow different than they are, and feeling that it’s someone else’s job to make them be different The first one may seem to be the obvious cause of your unhappiness, but I consider the second one to be both the true cause, and the one that is within your power to address. Because, really, this is about acceptance, and about power, and about responsibility. If you are willing to accept things exactly as they are, then...
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