Tag: happiness
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Love, Birds & Happiness
When you’re in love, everything seems special: the birds sing so sweetly, there is beauty all around you, and you can’t stop smiling. If only there was a way to bottle this feeling and pull it out on days when you don’t feel so good! Maybe we can… Scientists have discovered we have mirror neurons…
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Stop the Internal Violence
“Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. The people who come to me for coaching aren’t struggling with self-control over whether to shoot someone or not. (Whew!) But this…
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Mindfulness
One of my mom’s cousins died unexpectedly a couple weeks ago. A friend of mine was recently diagnosed with cancer and is awaiting treatment to begin. And my dad is now home recuperating after a few days in the hospital. Sometimes we get so caught up in our daily lives – completing work projects, keeping…
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Getting What You Want
What do you want? What do you really want? It’s a standard question coaches pose to clients, one that I pose to new clients, and one that I have pondered myself. What do I really want? During times of great stress, sometimes all I could muster as an answer is for the stress or cause…
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Staying In-the-Moment
I was on vacation last week, watching the beautiful ocean and feeling amazingly grateful to get to swim with the fish, but I missed quite a bit of the Olympics. I effectively unplugged, though, so I was able to shield myself from much of the results. I’ve enjoyed catching up on all my recordings and…
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The Secret to Happiness
“Happiness is not something the world owes you or can give you. It is not passive. It is not rest… Happiness is an activity of the soul in accord with excellence.” ~ Norman Melchert, philosopher, author, professor I’ve been taking a fascinating continuing education class on Positive Psychology. The field of psychology has been largely…