http://Contrast this with “normal” therapy, where you can spend a long time, sometimes years, looking for the root cause of your problem, when it’s not the problem you need to solve – it’s your thinking about the problem. Once the pain caused by your thinking goes away, you’re also much more free to deal with the problem itself.
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Joy Is a Human Birthright
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Time for Happiness
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From non judgement to non resistance, this model mirrors the work of Elkhart Tolle
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How to practice non-judgement.
Happiness is doing something you know you shouldn’t, because you can. Peace is doing something you think you can’t, because you should.
But when you look at happiness from a philosophical perspective as a way of thinking and living, you can be happy no matter your state.
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Negative emotions are contagious
“I didn’t need money to live happy. My whole house was nature. I had my patch of land where I planted a bit of everything, all sorts of fruit trees. I’d catch my fish, make manioc flour. I raised my three daughters, proud of what I was. I was rich.”
What is the most generous assumption you can make about this person’s intentions or what this person said?
Why we think those who are poorer than us cannot possibly be happy
A lot of people are hurt by cultural practices that are informed by a theory of emotion that is not as scientifically defensible as we believe it to be.
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This fantastic article captures the essence of ALL the happiness research. If you read it, you capture all its crucial highlights. I am so thankful for it.
Emotion needs motion
Anger is useful, into a point
The fallacy of time
The fallacy about so called fallacies
What an utter beauty!
Getting rich is a function of being happy with what you have, spending less than you make, and time.
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