Posts Tagged ‘feeling’

Power of Gratitude

“We thank you for our daily bread” - People all over the world of varied religions thank the Lord on a daily basis in their prayers and actions. We teach our children to say thank you as soon as the little angles can talk. But do we understand what these two words really mean. Saying thank you and feeling gratitude may not be the same thing.

In today’s hectic… » Continue

How to Handle Criticism

How well do you handle criticism? I’ve been dealt a lot of criticism ranging from harsh feedback to feeling completely insulted. Although the saying goes, “Stick and stones can break by bones, but words can never hurt me,” a harsh piece of feedback can definitely leave you with a bruised ego.

Despite the sting, I’ve found criticism can often be useful. Feedback can help you fix mistakes… » Continue

10 simple ways to save yourself from messing up your life

  1. Stop taking so much notice of how you feel. How you feel is how you feel. It’ll pass soon. What you’re thinking is what you’re thinking. It’ll go too. Tell yourself that whatever you feel, you feel; whatever you think, you think. Since you can’t stop yourself thinking, or prevent emotions from arising in your mind, it makes no sense to be proud or ashamed of either. You didn’t

Getting Too Intense About Work

It’s easy to get intense about your work. But it’s a major step from there to treating your job with such intensity it starts to take over nearly all of your life. Don’t just shrug off burnout as superstition or think you’re immune. It’s a serious issue that can wreck lives and produce problems for other people as well. » Continue

Angry/negative people can be bad for your brain

Kathy Sierra at Creating Passionate Users has written an article on why you should hang out with happy people. With her findings on researches such as mirror neurons, one of the main reasons that she identified is because we tend to imiating others feeling. She also mentions a social science phenomenon called “emotional contagion” and ignorance and misperceptions around the idea of “happy people”:

… But the effect of our innate… » Continue

Secret to a long life - Express your feeling

The Sydney Morning Herald has an article on a research which is shown enforced jolliness may make people ill. Professor Zapf used a population of 4000 people to test on the stress and physical level of the participant when they received an abuse call from clients. The study concluded that a person repress the true feeling will have negative impact on health:

… Some of the participants were allowed to answer… » Continue

Writing as a Form of Self Healing

As a self employed writer, I am certainly able to attest to the fact that the written word has the power to heal. However, you don’t have to be an experienced or eloquent writer to receive the self healing benefits that writing has to offer. All that is required is that you channel your emotions honestly and that you write solely on emotion and not reasoning. The… » Continue

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