Is there a room in your home that is not the way you want it to be? What if you could do a five minute exercise to change the way you feel about it?
It may be just one room, or perhaps in the midst of a busy life, a vague general feeling about the house as a whole.
Take five minutes in a quiet place and close your eyes. How would you like to describe it once it is everything you want it to be? What words would you choose? What would it feel like? Who would be there? What would you be doing in it?
Create a visual image of what it looks like once the changes have been made and get a sense of how you feel. If no image comes to mind, that's fine, just get a sense of the feeling. Stay with that for a minute or two, enjoy it.
And that's it! Exercise complete!
Once you have done this exercise you may be inspired to make some immediate changes, or you may not feel the need to make any changes now, you may just notice in a day or two or three that you are moving things around, bringing things in, taking things out, using the room in the new way. Whether the changes are immediate or take a little while, in your heart they have already been made.
Congratulations!
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Friday, February 27, 2009
The Secret to Happiness
Generating passion
With thanks to Stefan Klein, PhD, author of "The Science of Happiness"
Passion for the goals we are seeking is the key to both happiness and success
Taking action is easy when we are excited about where we are heading. Our usual barriers to action: fear of failure, fear of success, and whatever other baggage we are carrying around, seem not to operate in the presence of passion.
Stefan Klein (with apologies for the very loose paraphrase) explains that this is because when we are in a state of desire the brain releases dopamine into the body and this spurs us into action - very cheerful action, action you would have to hold us back from taking.
When the passion fades . . .
This all seems great, but then the next morning we go to continue our plan and it looks scary again. Or we don't notice the passion fading and six months later we are beating ourselves up because somehow that goal slipped away.
Passion, desire and excitement only last as long as the dopamine takes to disappear from our bloodstream. If we want to experience them on an ongoing basis, we need to regenerate them again and again.
Regenerating passion is easy
The good news about this is that it's really easy. The trick is to remember this is what you need to do . . .
To read more, go to http://www.jennifermanson.co.nz/Generating-Passion-speaker-writer-podcaster.html.
For feedback email jennifer@jennifermanson.co.nz.
Have a great day!
Jennifer Manson.
www.homestyle.co.nz www.businessstyle.co.nz www.jennifermanson.co.nz
With thanks to Stefan Klein, PhD, author of "The Science of Happiness"
Passion for the goals we are seeking is the key to both happiness and success
Taking action is easy when we are excited about where we are heading. Our usual barriers to action: fear of failure, fear of success, and whatever other baggage we are carrying around, seem not to operate in the presence of passion.
Stefan Klein (with apologies for the very loose paraphrase) explains that this is because when we are in a state of desire the brain releases dopamine into the body and this spurs us into action - very cheerful action, action you would have to hold us back from taking.
When the passion fades . . .
This all seems great, but then the next morning we go to continue our plan and it looks scary again. Or we don't notice the passion fading and six months later we are beating ourselves up because somehow that goal slipped away.
Passion, desire and excitement only last as long as the dopamine takes to disappear from our bloodstream. If we want to experience them on an ongoing basis, we need to regenerate them again and again.
Regenerating passion is easy
The good news about this is that it's really easy. The trick is to remember this is what you need to do . . .
To read more, go to http://www.jennifermanson.co.nz/Generating-Passion-speaker-writer-podcaster.html.
For feedback email jennifer@jennifermanson.co.nz.
Have a great day!
Jennifer Manson.
www.homestyle.co.nz www.businessstyle.co.nz www.jennifermanson.co.nz
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