“Meditation means different things to different people, and there are many ways to do it. This topic focuses on a kind of meditation called mindful meditation. This practice may help you relax and relieve stress.

Key points

• The goal of mindful meditation is to focus your attention on the things that are happening right now in the present moment. The idea is to note what you experience without trying to change it.
• Meditation can help you relax, because you are not worrying about what happened before or what may occur in the future.”

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“People in sunny, outdoorsy states — Louisiana, Hawaii, Florida — say they’re the happiest Americans, and researchers think they know why. A new study comparing self-described pleasant feelings with objective measures of good living found these folks generally have reason to feel fine.

The places where people are most likely to report happiness also tend to rate high on studies comparing things like climate, crime rates, air quality and schools.”

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I found this very interesting article sometime ago on “How to Achieve Emotional Control”   It was very interesting read.  Here is a quote from it:

“In this report I will present some of the most powerful ways to gain control over your own emotions.  For most of us our emotions seem to take over automatically, influencing how we think and how we behave, and consequently, how we conduct our lives.  You can vastly increase your personal power by imposing more and more conscious control over your emotional states.   Furthermore, your personal power tends to decrease to the extent that you indulge in negative emotions.”

Read this entire 28 page report at:  http://www.scribd.com

“One good way to find a few useful, life-improving and time-tested tips is to look back. To look way back through history. To find ideas that have arisen in minds over and over the last few thousand years. Here are seven such ideas about how you can find happiness. Maybe you will find them helpful.

1. You choose.

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

How your view yourself and your world are conscious choices and habits. The lens you choose to view everything through determines how you will interpret what is happening. And from your interpretation you act. And all of this becomes your life.”

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“I love lists. I use them to manage every part of my life. But they do more than just help me itemize my goals for the day. New research shows that writing to-do lists can help your health in a bunch of surprising ways, from making you happier to upping your workouts (key right now). Here’s why:

1. They’re empowering….”

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I just finished listening to “Excuses Begone by Dr. Wayne Dyer.   It’s very motivational and helps you break through those obstacles that have been holding you back.  Wayne does a great job in explaining how you are thinking and focusing on the things you don’t want and the things you want.   He teaches you how to basically get what you want out of life!   I liked it so much I just ordered the book!

Product Description

“Within the tracks of this transformational CD set, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer reveals how to change the self-defeating thinking patterns that have prevented you from living at the highest levels of success, happiness, and health. Even though you may know what to think, actually changing those thinking habits that have been with you since childhood might be somewhat challenging. If I changed, it would create family dramas . . . I’m too old or too young . . . I’m far too busy and tired . . . I can’t afford the things I truly want . . . It would be very difficult for me to do things differently . . . and I’ve always been this way . . . may all seem to be true, but they’re in fact just excuses. So the business of modifying habituated thinking patterns really comes down to tossing out the same tired old excuses and examining your beliefs in a new and truthful light. In this groundbreaking work, Wayne presents a compendium of conscious and subconscious crutches employed by virtually everyone, along with ways to cast them aside once and for all. You’ll learn to apply specific questions to any excuse, and then proceed through the steps of a new paradigm. The old, habituated ways of thinking will melt away as you experience the absurdity of hanging on to them. You’ll ultimately realize that there are no excuses worth defending, ever, even if they’ve always been part of your life’and the joy of releasing them will resonate throughout your very being. When you eliminate the need to explain your shortcomings or failures, you’l awaken to the life of your dreams. Excuses . . . Begone!”

Get it on Amazon.com: Excuses Begone – Dr. Wayne Dyer