Happiness is your responsibility, we have no right to consume happiness without producing it.
Japanese Psychiatrist Akiyoshi Kitaoka created images designed to help viewers of the images determine their state of mind. Essentially, if you look at these images and they appear to be still (RELAXED), moving slowly (MID-STRESS) and faster moving around (HI-STRESS). Your result???
Japanese Psychiatrist Akiyoshi Kitaoka created images designed to help viewers of the images determine their state of mind. Essentially, if you look at these images and they appear to be still (RELAXED), moving slowly (MID-STRESS) and faster moving around (HI-STRESS). Your result???
There seems to be more than one way to view happiness, let’s review it in relation to stress.
A useful working definition of stress is
You are exposed to a threat that would normally call for action to correct it, You are either prevented from taking action or you take an action that is ineffectiveAs a result the threat remains
Useful Technique:
You are exposed to a threat that would normally call for action to correct it, You are either prevented from taking action or you take an action that is ineffectiveAs a result the threat remains
Useful Technique:
- You can diffuse situations via physical contact with another person, holding hands, hugging...
- Making friends with someone who is interested in you, who will empathize and listen
- Deep abdominal breathing relieves anxiety and makes it easier to cope with tension
- Houseplants and pets help reduce psychological stress
- Music preferably instrumentals, because lyrics could stimulate cognitive activity. Most effective with dimmed lights
- Writing down your worries, accepting problems you can’t change and finding solutions for those you can control
Truly successful people are not overburdened by stress. Largely because they perceive stress as an opportunity to learn and invest in altruism, recognizing the need to see beyond their personal needs and devote time to helping others.
Research has shown that attitude towards self and the world is the key to managing stress. So enjoying the moment can free your mind from concerns and tensions.
Social Isolation is a threat to health and longevity with higher mortality than smokers, obese and hypertensive. An Ohio State University study found that spouses in bad marriages have drastically suppressed immune system.
According to Guthrie and Picciano, emotional stress such as fear, anxiety and anger increase the secretion of adrenaline. If stress continues for any length of time, the adrenal glands also increase their output of the steroid hormone, cortisol from the outer cortex. Cortisol hormone is known to
suppress the immune function.
suppress the immune function.
Useful Techniques
Thought Awareness is the process by which you observe your thought and Rational Thinking is a technique that helps you to challenge these negative thoughts to either learn from them or refute them as incorrect.
From Fullness, comes Fullness yet Fullness Remains........Stay Happy
See You at the Top
