10 Tips To Help You
Live A Happier Life
10 Tips To
Help You Live A Happier Life
- by Jane Thurnell_Read
(c) Jane Thurnell-Read - All Rights reserved
We often
think that big things have to happen for us to be happy, but
small changes can make a significant improvement to our quota of
happiness. Here are 10 small things you can do. Give it a go,
you might start smiling more, feeling a warm glow inside
yourself, being more optimistic.
1. Words have power. Avoid using words like 'hate', 'always',
'never', 'depressed' to talk about negative events. This just
reinforces the misery, and can even increase it. User milder
words like 'don't like', 'sometimes', 'unhappy'.
2. Be yourself! We tend to like people who are themselves, who
don't pretend to be something they're not. Think about the
people you like - are they the most beautiful, the most
intelligent, the most successful people you know - probably not.
So, be yourself and be liked.
3. In important areas of your life decide what you want, and
then seek out ways of achieving it. In less important areas of
your life choose from what is immediately available. Let some
things just be, even if they are not quite right.
4. Can't let go of emotional pain? Try the homeopathic remedy 'Natrum
Mur' if you tend to dwell on emotional hurt from the past.
5. Look at the sky. Research has shown that people in hospital
make a better recovery if they can see the sky from their
hospital beds. Why wait to be ill? Enjoy it now.
6. In a study funded by Mind, the UK mental health charity, 80%
of the participants said they felt better (emotionally and
mentally) if they cut down on sugar.
7. Anxious? Try drinking lemon balm tea when you're anxious.
8. Research by Martin E. P. Seligman found that volunteers who
wrote and presented a letter of gratitude to someone they had
never properly thanked were significantly happier and less
depressed three months later. Try it yourself.
9. "Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write
the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble." Arabic
proverb.
10. If you're depressed, it could be because you're deficient in
some B vitamins particularly thiamin, niacin and folic acid.
Copyright 2007 Jane Thurnell-Read is a researcher and writer on
health and happiness. Visit her web site Health & Goodness for
more tips, information and inspiration for a happier healthier
life.
http://www.healthandgoodness.com
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