It is all down to your brains prefrontal cortex. This part of your brain is largely responsible for your willpower, but it is also the area that deals with your short term memory; helping you to solve abstract problems and keep focused. It would appear that it cannot do both.
Category Archives: Positive Psychology
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she knew that Martin needed strength, she also knew she had to break his pattern of fear as well her own. She took immediate action and accomplished it all with one statement when he opened his eyes she smiled brightly and said, “It is just a movie babe! it is only a movie! ” Martin said that in that moment he knew he was going to make it and begin to heal.
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Your brain difficult time distinguishing between what you see with your eyes and what you visualise in your mind. Infact, MRI scans of people’s brains taken while they are watching the sun set are virtually indistinguishable from scans taken when the same people visualised a sun set in their mind. The same brain regions are active in both scenarios.
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Some employees will experience the desired emotions quite naturally. This can happen in isolated moments of compassion or gratitude. When such feelings arise regularly, that is a sign you are building the culture you want.
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One of the research findings of Harvard University tells that a good relationship with family and friends gives us good health and a longer life. As such our thoughts and beliefs have a lot to do with our wellness. Happy positive thoughts create an inner atmosphere of growth, while an unhappy state of mind creates inner resistance and stress leading to loss of health.
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The bodily pleasures are immediate, come through the senses, and are momentary. They need little or no interpretation. The sense organs, for evolutionary reasons, are hooked quite directly to positive emotion, touching, tasting, smelling, moving the body, seeing, and hearing can directly evoke pleasure.
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Managers make strategies to enhance profitability, production, consumer satisfaction and more. However, surprisingly, employee happiness does not seem to be among the top priorities for most of them. They forget that without happy employees all their strategizing is not of much use, as it would not deliver desired results. Before we dig deeper into the […]
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By Nona Khanna, Master Healer When we talk about Perfect well being, we often have a perfect body or physical health in mind. We often forget that optimal health and wellness considers the whole person in terms of body, mind, spirit and emotions. The inter relationship between mind, body and spirit is a wonderful connection […]
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The common factor in various forms of the feeling is escape from the self – and this can range from a spiritual desire to loose yourself in God to a more materialistic desire to get out of your head at weekends.
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You can hold only four cups, attend to three pets of yours, tie only one saree at a time. The point I am trying to make here is that we, as individuals, are severely limited in our capacity. As fragile as we are, we can only devote 30 or 40 years of high quality effort […]