happiness

Happiness is one of the most powerful emotions you can feel. It makes everything in life better. The feeling occurs when you find a situation to be favorable. Most people want more happiness but have accidentally assigned their happiness to external events and therefore don’t experience happiness very often.

People who are generally happy recognize that nothing outside of themselves creates happiness. The emotion you feel is the response you choose consciously or unconsciously to stimulus. The challenge for anyone seeking more happiness is to learn how to change the context of each situation and find happiness everywhere they look.

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• Find Love in Life, Not Food

  
  Dr. Norris Chumley Satisfied Life — Authority: 128
  Today is all about love -- its Day 3 of the "Give Back Diet."  Feeling loved is vitally important in your efforts to change.  I know from experience, I didnt feel very loved as a child, other than through food.  That was the main way, if not the only way, my family knew how to express love: through chocolate ...
  5 hours ago

• This Emotional Life

  
  Raising Three Thinkers — Authority: 116
  "But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions? " ~Vincent Van Gogh Have you been watching this on PBS? This Emotional Life is a three part, six hour, series about emotions. Family, Friends, and Lovers ...
  6 hours ago

• Russell Brand confirms engagement

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  London, Jan 6 (ANI): Russell Brand has revealed that he is engaged to singer Katy Perry.The comic, 34, said that he popped the question during a spiritual ceremony in India on New Year’s Eve and a “love guru” blessed their relationship.“It’s true. Much love,” the Sun quoted Russell as saying in a text ...
  6 hours ago

• Bo and Gigi’s story~part 2~Beginnings

  
  Sweetiegirlz's Weblog — Authority: 126
  Bo was shy around Gigi.  At work,  in general though, he was boisterous, energetic,  and like to kid around a lot with others.   Gigi had watched him at times, and although Bo had been nice to her, she frowned when he cursed at work.  Eventually, she kidded around with him too, and even made a nick name for ...
  8 hours ago

• Wakeup Calls

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  I was surfing this morning and came across a website that archived the songs played every morning by mission control to the crew of STS-88, the first Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station. Here is the link , and it appears that you can download the songs yourself. One might think this violates ...
  11 hours ago

• Youve Gotta Be Kidding Me: Forum To Help People Deal With Post-Avatar Depression Because The Dream Of Pandora Cant Come True

  
  Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome — Authority: 742
  I dont see movies in the theater because Im afraid to leave my bedroom , so I havent seen Avatar and I dont know what the dream of Pandora is. But if its anything like The Heart of the Ocean from Titanic then old wrinkly Rose had it the whole time! So yeah, theres a forum thread dedicated to help people ...
  12 hours ago

• Happy Days in 2009

  
  Economix — Authority: 691
  The happiest day of 2009 was Easter, according to new survey findings. By contrast, the day filled with the most stress and worry was the day after the House passed the stimulus bill.
  13 hours ago

• Happiness expedition around the world

  
  Gadling — Authority: 689
  Filed under: Stories , News Toño, Kelly and Tony are a team of three multilingual "happiness ambassadors" embarking on Expedition 206 , a Coca-Cola sponsored trek around the world in search of happy things. Margarita Alvarez (pictured far left), president of the Coca-Cola Happiness Institute in Madrid, met ...
  14 hours ago

• Healing Foods - Cure All Recipe

  
  Our Lady of Weight Loss — Authority: 435
  Because a number of scientific studies have demonstrated that garlic is a healing food and that regular consumption of said garlic cures our ills, I decided to load up on this aromatic vegetable like theres no tomorrow, adding it in bulk to my recipes! Last night, I whipped up an amazing penne dish, heavy on the ...
  15 hours ago

• Brain Break: Ticklish Loris!

  
  Fresh Living — Authority: 441
  Thank you, CuteOverload.com , for including in your most popular posts of 2009 this footage of a loris basking in the gentlest round of tickling youve ever seen. To me, the caption here is, "Sometimes its just not that hard to make someone happy."  Eeeeehhn! Like what you see? Click here to subscribe ...
  15 hours ago

• Create A Business That Attracts Clients Easily

  
  Becoming Who You Want To Be — Authority: 147
  Want to know how to create a business that clients flock to? Where your reputation brings you in referrals and new clients everyday? Your first step is to create a powerful publicity and promotion strategy for your fimf. Plus, youll need to understand is why people like to work with certain people, professionals or ...
  16 hours ago

• 4 big reasons why we initally find positive psychology puzzling

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 134
  At first, I was suspicious about positive psychology I came to positive psychology some 10 years ago and like many people, I was deeply suspicious. Life is not about happiness, I thought. Life is about effectiveness. Life is about dealing with reality. I still think that is what life is all about but I have also ...
  18 hours ago

• Why Id Rather Be Enthusiastic Than Confident.

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Lately, I’ve been thinking about enthusiasm . I’ve become increasingly convinced of the importance of enthusiasm to happiness. Enthusiasm is energetic, positive, generous, and social. It’s outward-turning and engaged. It’s kind of goofy. As one of my happiness-project experiments, I tried putting sticky ...
  18 hours ago

• Going Stoic, Part 2: But My Mind Is Still Complaining!

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  If you are just tuning in, I committed last week to a gripe-free month. I offered a few guidelines for reduced complaining, and invited folks to join me in this experiment. If you are playing along and you have reduced your complaining, you may have noticed that the mind doesnt stop complaining simply because the ...
  18 hours ago

• Rocking The Boat

  
  Professional self improvement articles directory — Authority: 160
  I work in a factory, and we have supervisors who play favorites. They have about six girls who can do no wrong, and they have easier jobs than the rest of us. These girls go out after work to bars, and that is why they are in with the supervisors.The boss over these [...]
  21 hours ago

• Something Magical Happens when…

  
  Beth and Lee's Blog — Authority: 128
  It’s amazing that when we really get involved and excited about something we really love to do, our thoughts and feelings begin to change into a different vibration and the vibration feels unlimited in every way.  Find the things you love to do and stay in that wonderful frame of mind…it is truly unlimited.  And ...
  21 hours ago

• New Years Resolution: Build Your Strengths

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Tis the season for New Years Resolutions! Often these resolutions focus on fixing what we think is wrong with us: women in particular are extraordinarily hard on themselves, preoccupied with all the ways they are not good enough. I believe, and research shows, that we would all do better if our New Years Resolutions ...
  21 hours ago

• Inside "This Emotional Life": An Interview with Daniel Gilbert

  
  Beyond Blue — Authority: 487
  Photo © Marilynn Oliphant   I feel sorry for Daniel Gilbert , Harvard psychologist and bestselling author of "Stumbling on Happiness." He is so good at everything that he has a hard time finding a suitable challenge. Alas, he has found one! The 52-year-old scientist whose work has been covered by every major ...
  21 hours ago

• First Person: Singing Eve’s Song

  
  Mormon Women: Who We Are — Authority: 128
  ~by Janelle The past month has been tough for my family. My husband made an extremely costly error at work. My chronic illness left me immobile for several days. My children have had behavior and potty training issues. My husband’s employee fell ill and very nearly died. With the loss of those extra hands on the ...
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• Followed By 37 Seconds Of Happiness - Followed By 37 Seconds Of Happiness

  
  SACK MY HARDCORE deathcore, metalcore, hardcore, metal... — Authority: 153
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