Monday, December 6, 2010
Friday, December 3, 2010
Is There Power in Positive Thinking?
I definitely think there is power in positive thinking and I’m sure many can agree with this theory as well. People may not realize it, but the mind is a very important and powerful part in one’s body. People that start their day negatively usually end up spending their whole day thinking and feeling negative. Now on the other hand when one starts their day -and life for that matter- positively they usually spend moments in life much better and happier. This are some examples on how by being positive you can manipulate ones mind into having a better life.
By being positive it gives people the ability to strive for their goal. This is another reason why positive thinking is so powerful. Being dedicated is important because without that dedication people will not take the time to accomplish goals, such as ones professional and love life. People that think positive about their love life, usually spends more time making sure everything is going well and both are happy. Same goes for ones professional life as well. People usually when thinking positive about their work take more time into their assignments and feel more happier when they get a good comment on it. Thinking in this way ultimately helps you because it get you further in life professionally and personally.
Now people that think negatively like their career will eventually not succeed and would not accomplish anything. When people think negative they eventually do not put any effort into anything and try careless. In time they negative mindset will reflect onto their work and in time they would get fired. This also can happen with their love life as well. When thinking negatively people also end up not putting effort into their relationship which will lead to stress and ultimately to stress and breakup.
Thinking positively is very powerful in any person’s life. It gives people the motivation to succeed in life and will eventually make you a happier as well. This is why it is best not to think negatively because it can have the opposite effect to anyone. As long as people keep a positive mindset they will most likely have better and successful life.
By being positive it gives people the ability to strive for their goal. This is another reason why positive thinking is so powerful. Being dedicated is important because without that dedication people will not take the time to accomplish goals, such as ones professional and love life. People that think positive about their love life, usually spends more time making sure everything is going well and both are happy. Same goes for ones professional life as well. People usually when thinking positive about their work take more time into their assignments and feel more happier when they get a good comment on it. Thinking in this way ultimately helps you because it get you further in life professionally and personally.
Now people that think negatively like their career will eventually not succeed and would not accomplish anything. When people think negative they eventually do not put any effort into anything and try careless. In time they negative mindset will reflect onto their work and in time they would get fired. This also can happen with their love life as well. When thinking negatively people also end up not putting effort into their relationship which will lead to stress and ultimately to stress and breakup.
Thinking positively is very powerful in any person’s life. It gives people the motivation to succeed in life and will eventually make you a happier as well. This is why it is best not to think negatively because it can have the opposite effect to anyone. As long as people keep a positive mindset they will most likely have better and successful life.
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Monday, November 29, 2010
Happiness and Health
Almost everyone can agree of the phrase “Laughter is the best medicine”. People use this phrase without thinking if it is true and when they do think about that idea they usually think it is silly. Many can agree that laughter is a natural source of being healthy. Some sources such as The Laughing Guru by Raffi Khatchadourian, How Your Mood Affect Your Health by Anastasia Stephens and The Positive Influence of Norman Cousins by Shari Roan of The Los Angeles Times are concrete examples that explain how this theory is true. This shows that by being happy and being a laughable person helps one to become a healthier person in body and mind.
Many have had experiences with feeling sad and once they are surround by happy people suddenly their moods change. Being unhappy after time begins to affect someone not only physically but emotionally, as well. When people have an argument with someone else, many can agree that at the moment of the conflict they feel their blood pressure rise. Even when they begin to think about the conflict later on they still feel their blood pressure rise. Studies show that frustration raises people’s blood pressure. These are theories explained in the article How Your Mood Affect Your Health by Anastasia Stephens. Stephens explains how by just having an argument with another for half an hour can result in slowly ones body’s abilities to heal from frustration by at least a day. These studies show that a person mood can affect ones health.
People that believe that laughing is the answer to their health tend to dedicate their life into that theory. By laughing it gives a trigger in one’s mind that there is a sign of happiness, and this gives out positive chemicals into one’s body. In the Article, The Laughing Guru by Raffi Khatchadourian, Dr. Madan Kataria published a book called “Laugh for No Reason” which simply argues how people should laugh more often and not only as a result of a joke but more freely and for no reason as the book says. The book stated “they should do so… by coming together and engaging in simple forms of play… built around faking laughter (78)”. People around the world gather together in an area and simply laugh together for a certain amount of time and talk, joke around then leave. Kataria calls this method “laughing yoga” and he stated to a “Senate committee during a hearing about health-care reform, that laughter yoga could help lower American health- care costs (78)” which means this method works.
Kataria’s method of changing ones health with laughter is agreeable because as stated in Khatchadourian article people described this laughter yoga “as a life-changing release” and these are people that suffer from as the article stated “…with emotional or physical difficulties-- depression, spiritual listlessness, chronic pain…(78)”. People can say that by using things like laughter yoga can bring out better senses of self. Everything in one’s life feels more positive and better when there mood is in that direction. These mood changes happen to affect people’s health as well, it is said by Khatchadourian In 2002, and Charles Schaefer noted that “adults who act happy… for a minute a day are likely to elevate their mood (81). This mood change is a good thing because with this happiness in one’s life it helps to stop depression.
By being unhappy, causes one to become depressed. Depression leads to problems at home or in ones life. This can also affect ones physical attributes such as work or even suicide. Being unhappy makes people stress and discouraged. By feeling depressed, people begin to think negatively and also offensive. This can lead to different scenarios such as getting fired from work and that can lead to depression, as well. Cases like this can affect anyone, for one case a young girl named Alex, she was a 23 year old women. She recently graduated college with a master in Business Administration. Starting her career she was excited in the beginning but as time pass by she became stressed and overwhelmed. With family problem, and work-related problem, it became hard for her to be happy. In time she never spoke about her problems and was stress for quite some time. As time pass by she started lacking on her work and eventually got fired. With her getting fired, and still having family problems, her body eventually wore out and she was sent to the hospital. While she was there the doctor told her that her stress was the cause of her having heart disease. During that experience, she decided not to take life so serious and to enjoy it. As a result, of feeing happy she took the time to relax and plan her next move. Now she always makes time out of her week to laugh and have a good time. She still is working at a hectic job but makes it her priority not to get overwhelmed.
In order cases, people have experience the opposite of the recent experience. Hence Norman Cousin, people say he is the guy who laughed his way to health. Cousin looks for a way to cope with a crippling that he was diagnosed with in 1964. Even though he was diagnosed with this illness it did not stop him from being the funny prankster he was. He watches funny TV shows and large amounts of Vitamin C as stated in the article from the Los Angeles Times, The Positive Influence of Norman Cousins talks about Norman Cousins illness and how it did not stop him from being happy, which eventually lead him to living and longer life. Cousins was so happy that he gotten better he wrote several books on this theory he had found that laughter does make people healthier. His death was the result of heart failure at the age of 75 in a hotel where he had gone to meet a friend for tea. This showed him that by being positive and laughing as a result of happiness can improve one’s health. Norman Cousins suffered from a critical illness and could have led him to become paralyzed. By always laughing and staying positive, Cousins overcame his illness and lived a very long good life.
Sources such as The Laughing Guru, How Your Mood Affect Your Health and The Positive Influence of Norman Cousins are valuable example on how by laughing can improve one’s health. Having conferences just to laugh and being positive and happy are important for one’s health because it bring out one’s chemicals that are good for one’s body. Its best to stay on the positive said because once people engage in the negative and unhappy side of things such as stress and depression it can lead to being unhealthy. It’s best to always even if it’s for no reason for the sake of one’s health.
Many have had experiences with feeling sad and once they are surround by happy people suddenly their moods change. Being unhappy after time begins to affect someone not only physically but emotionally, as well. When people have an argument with someone else, many can agree that at the moment of the conflict they feel their blood pressure rise. Even when they begin to think about the conflict later on they still feel their blood pressure rise. Studies show that frustration raises people’s blood pressure. These are theories explained in the article How Your Mood Affect Your Health by Anastasia Stephens. Stephens explains how by just having an argument with another for half an hour can result in slowly ones body’s abilities to heal from frustration by at least a day. These studies show that a person mood can affect ones health.
People that believe that laughing is the answer to their health tend to dedicate their life into that theory. By laughing it gives a trigger in one’s mind that there is a sign of happiness, and this gives out positive chemicals into one’s body. In the Article, The Laughing Guru by Raffi Khatchadourian, Dr. Madan Kataria published a book called “Laugh for No Reason” which simply argues how people should laugh more often and not only as a result of a joke but more freely and for no reason as the book says. The book stated “they should do so… by coming together and engaging in simple forms of play… built around faking laughter (78)”. People around the world gather together in an area and simply laugh together for a certain amount of time and talk, joke around then leave. Kataria calls this method “laughing yoga” and he stated to a “Senate committee during a hearing about health-care reform, that laughter yoga could help lower American health- care costs (78)” which means this method works.
Kataria’s method of changing ones health with laughter is agreeable because as stated in Khatchadourian article people described this laughter yoga “as a life-changing release” and these are people that suffer from as the article stated “…with emotional or physical difficulties-- depression, spiritual listlessness, chronic pain…(78)”. People can say that by using things like laughter yoga can bring out better senses of self. Everything in one’s life feels more positive and better when there mood is in that direction. These mood changes happen to affect people’s health as well, it is said by Khatchadourian In 2002, and Charles Schaefer noted that “adults who act happy… for a minute a day are likely to elevate their mood (81). This mood change is a good thing because with this happiness in one’s life it helps to stop depression.
By being unhappy, causes one to become depressed. Depression leads to problems at home or in ones life. This can also affect ones physical attributes such as work or even suicide. Being unhappy makes people stress and discouraged. By feeling depressed, people begin to think negatively and also offensive. This can lead to different scenarios such as getting fired from work and that can lead to depression, as well. Cases like this can affect anyone, for one case a young girl named Alex, she was a 23 year old women. She recently graduated college with a master in Business Administration. Starting her career she was excited in the beginning but as time pass by she became stressed and overwhelmed. With family problem, and work-related problem, it became hard for her to be happy. In time she never spoke about her problems and was stress for quite some time. As time pass by she started lacking on her work and eventually got fired. With her getting fired, and still having family problems, her body eventually wore out and she was sent to the hospital. While she was there the doctor told her that her stress was the cause of her having heart disease. During that experience, she decided not to take life so serious and to enjoy it. As a result, of feeing happy she took the time to relax and plan her next move. Now she always makes time out of her week to laugh and have a good time. She still is working at a hectic job but makes it her priority not to get overwhelmed.
In order cases, people have experience the opposite of the recent experience. Hence Norman Cousin, people say he is the guy who laughed his way to health. Cousin looks for a way to cope with a crippling that he was diagnosed with in 1964. Even though he was diagnosed with this illness it did not stop him from being the funny prankster he was. He watches funny TV shows and large amounts of Vitamin C as stated in the article from the Los Angeles Times, The Positive Influence of Norman Cousins talks about Norman Cousins illness and how it did not stop him from being happy, which eventually lead him to living and longer life. Cousins was so happy that he gotten better he wrote several books on this theory he had found that laughter does make people healthier. His death was the result of heart failure at the age of 75 in a hotel where he had gone to meet a friend for tea. This showed him that by being positive and laughing as a result of happiness can improve one’s health. Norman Cousins suffered from a critical illness and could have led him to become paralyzed. By always laughing and staying positive, Cousins overcame his illness and lived a very long good life.
Sources such as The Laughing Guru, How Your Mood Affect Your Health and The Positive Influence of Norman Cousins are valuable example on how by laughing can improve one’s health. Having conferences just to laugh and being positive and happy are important for one’s health because it bring out one’s chemicals that are good for one’s body. Its best to stay on the positive said because once people engage in the negative and unhappy side of things such as stress and depression it can lead to being unhealthy. It’s best to always even if it’s for no reason for the sake of one’s health.
Friday, November 19, 2010
Happiness and Health..
Thesis Statement: By being a happier person it can lead to being healthier.
Source (MLA)
Veenhoven, R. "Journal of Happiness Studies." Vol.9 Issue (Sept2008) 449-460. Print.
Link:http://ehis.ebscohost.com.rpa.laguardia.edu:2048/ehost/detail?vid=9&hid=116&sid=6d8a6915-d151-43bd-bb72-7b46915155fa%40sessionmgr14&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=a9h&AN=33281675
Brief Description:
Is happiness good for your health? This common notion is tested in a synthetic analysis of 30 follow-up studies on happiness and longevity. It appears that happiness does not predict longevity in sick populations, but that it does predict longevity among healthy populations So, happiness does not cure illness but it does protect against becoming ill. The effect of happiness on longevity in healthy populations is remarkably strong. The size of the effect is comparable to that of smoking or not. If so, public health can also be promoted by policies that aim at greater happiness of a greater number. That can be done by strengthening individual life-abilities and by improving the livability of the social environment. Some policies are proposed. Both ways of promoting health through happiness require more research on conditions for happiness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Source (MLA)
Veenhoven, R. "Journal of Happiness Studies." Vol.9 Issue (Sept2008) 449-460. Print.
Link:http://ehis.ebscohost.com.rpa.laguardia.edu:2048/ehost/detail?vid=9&hid=116&sid=6d8a6915-d151-43bd-bb72-7b46915155fa%40sessionmgr14&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=a9h&AN=33281675
Brief Description:
Is happiness good for your health? This common notion is tested in a synthetic analysis of 30 follow-up studies on happiness and longevity. It appears that happiness does not predict longevity in sick populations, but that it does predict longevity among healthy populations So, happiness does not cure illness but it does protect against becoming ill. The effect of happiness on longevity in healthy populations is remarkably strong. The size of the effect is comparable to that of smoking or not. If so, public health can also be promoted by policies that aim at greater happiness of a greater number. That can be done by strengthening individual life-abilities and by improving the livability of the social environment. Some policies are proposed. Both ways of promoting health through happiness require more research on conditions for happiness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Blog 7... What Im Grateful for :)
I am grateful for having a big family of nine brothers and sisters that are very untied even though most of them are half brother and sisters. I’m also grateful for not having to worry about getting a job because I have parents that make sure I had at least a couple of dollars everyday and just wanted me to focus on school. I am also grateful for having a father that even though he is strict with me I know he means it in the best way possible. I am most grateful for having a mother that cared for me and loved me to the point that I could not even explain. She was there for me every step of the way. Even though she is gone I am grateful to have her for those fourteen years of my life. I am also grateful for having friends that are their for me threw my good and bad moments. The ones that make me laugh and help me forget all my troubles and make me see that there is good in this life and there is a purpose for living.
Grateful List <3
Walk, See, Hear, Smell
Able to eat.
Being able to breathe
Having a Home
Having Family/Friends
Having clothes on my back
God for not judging
Knowing how to Read and Write
Being Educated
Grateful List <3
Walk, See, Hear, Smell
Able to eat.
Being able to breathe
Having a Home
Having Family/Friends
Having clothes on my back
God for not judging
Knowing how to Read and Write
Being Educated
Monday, November 8, 2010
Draft *Draft 6
Draft
11/05/2010 Happiness and Relationships
First Draft
People can always argue how being fake isn’t a good thing. John L. Mason once quoted “You’re born an original, don’t die a copy!” which is something everyone can agree with but why is it that people still fall in the temptation of being fake and changing who they are to become part of a certain crowd? Some people do this just to fit in and others do this just because they cannot help it. Books like “Happier” are very good examples of how people change in order to be in a relationship and how they end up feeling in the long run. People that have to change who they are to fit in a crowd aren’t in a real friendship and won’t be truly happy.
In a person’s life-time they come across different stages of fitting in, from the earlier years starting from grade school onto high school and heading all the way to adult hood. People when young always want to fit in the “popular crowd”; they try to change their style to look to a certain way and try to talk to people that normally would care for just so they can be associated with them. When beginning adulthood the situation doesn’t make a dramatic change. They talk to certain people just so they can fit in and ultimately help themselves into a better high standard position. These stages show how people do have moments when they don’t act their true selves but do this to fit in a certain crowd. Even though they know this would not make them truly happy they still do this because they feel that ultimately they would become a happier person.
Being in a group that does things you aren’t interested in and trying to fit into that group will end up making you truly unhappy. You aren’t being true to yourself and your going against something you believe in from it being the smallest to the biggest thing you can think of. By making someone else happy you’re ending up making yourself feel unhappy. You tend to lose yourself when you do this and that becomes to be unhealthy for your body and mind. A real friendship is based on unconditional love. As written in the chapter “Happiness in Relationships” by. Tan-Bel-Shahar the winner of the Israeli squash championship said “I want to women to want me for who I am” (112). Meaning that she doesn’t want to make friends because she won the championship; she wants to make friends with people that see her for who she is other than her winnings.
Friendships are based on unconditional love, without this there is nothing to fight for. By being true to yourself you are being true with the relationship you have with that certain person you want to be friends for. By being real with that person it helps to express your feeling on anything that is going on with your life. By trying to be someone you aren’t it ends up hurting you in the sense that you have to always be some different in front of that certain people and after a while it start to hurt you because you start to hate yourself because if it. They are several cases just like this girl, Ana who in her high school years ended up changing her personalities little by little because she felt that if she did not act just like her friends she will eventually lose them and become alone forever. Slowly it got to the point that she could not act normally around them because her friends would notice and ask why she was acting in that way. Until it came to the point that she had to detach herself from those people and now is living a better life because she realize the her “true friends” weren’t really there for her and by not being with them and acting herself she ended up finding people that truly loved her for her and now she can act as she please and people accept her for that and because of that she is now truly happy.
People tend to not realize that by not being who they are they are stopping something that makes them unique. By stopping their core self it put them at risk of stopping themselves from become something special. Tal-Ben-Shabar says “The core self comprises our deepest and most stable characteristic -- our character.” (114). Meaning that our sore self is what makes us different and set our goals. Without this “core” people have nothing to look for as for goals and dreams. People tend to forget about their Core self and start to see others Core self and try to imitate that instead of their own. They do this so they can become known to the other person and gain acceptance. In the future they tend to regret doing this because they lose a sense of self and feel detached from the world and their life.
Human lifestyle is to gain acceptance from anyone. Commonly from friends, people tend to choose the wrong type of friends. At first they think that the people they call friends are really there for them because people choose to show themselves in a way that they know they would be accepted and once they show their true self that’s when you really know who your real friends are. People that choose to accept you for who your really are the people you need to surround yourself and once you have done that you would become truly happy. As spoken in the chapter “Happiness and Relationships” , once you know your core self and who you represent then you will really find your true friends.
11/05/2010 Happiness and Relationships
First Draft
People can always argue how being fake isn’t a good thing. John L. Mason once quoted “You’re born an original, don’t die a copy!” which is something everyone can agree with but why is it that people still fall in the temptation of being fake and changing who they are to become part of a certain crowd? Some people do this just to fit in and others do this just because they cannot help it. Books like “Happier” are very good examples of how people change in order to be in a relationship and how they end up feeling in the long run. People that have to change who they are to fit in a crowd aren’t in a real friendship and won’t be truly happy.
In a person’s life-time they come across different stages of fitting in, from the earlier years starting from grade school onto high school and heading all the way to adult hood. People when young always want to fit in the “popular crowd”; they try to change their style to look to a certain way and try to talk to people that normally would care for just so they can be associated with them. When beginning adulthood the situation doesn’t make a dramatic change. They talk to certain people just so they can fit in and ultimately help themselves into a better high standard position. These stages show how people do have moments when they don’t act their true selves but do this to fit in a certain crowd. Even though they know this would not make them truly happy they still do this because they feel that ultimately they would become a happier person.
Being in a group that does things you aren’t interested in and trying to fit into that group will end up making you truly unhappy. You aren’t being true to yourself and your going against something you believe in from it being the smallest to the biggest thing you can think of. By making someone else happy you’re ending up making yourself feel unhappy. You tend to lose yourself when you do this and that becomes to be unhealthy for your body and mind. A real friendship is based on unconditional love. As written in the chapter “Happiness in Relationships” by. Tan-Bel-Shahar the winner of the Israeli squash championship said “I want to women to want me for who I am” (112). Meaning that she doesn’t want to make friends because she won the championship; she wants to make friends with people that see her for who she is other than her winnings.
Friendships are based on unconditional love, without this there is nothing to fight for. By being true to yourself you are being true with the relationship you have with that certain person you want to be friends for. By being real with that person it helps to express your feeling on anything that is going on with your life. By trying to be someone you aren’t it ends up hurting you in the sense that you have to always be some different in front of that certain people and after a while it start to hurt you because you start to hate yourself because if it. They are several cases just like this girl, Ana who in her high school years ended up changing her personalities little by little because she felt that if she did not act just like her friends she will eventually lose them and become alone forever. Slowly it got to the point that she could not act normally around them because her friends would notice and ask why she was acting in that way. Until it came to the point that she had to detach herself from those people and now is living a better life because she realize the her “true friends” weren’t really there for her and by not being with them and acting herself she ended up finding people that truly loved her for her and now she can act as she please and people accept her for that and because of that she is now truly happy.
People tend to not realize that by not being who they are they are stopping something that makes them unique. By stopping their core self it put them at risk of stopping themselves from become something special. Tal-Ben-Shabar says “The core self comprises our deepest and most stable characteristic -- our character.” (114). Meaning that our sore self is what makes us different and set our goals. Without this “core” people have nothing to look for as for goals and dreams. People tend to forget about their Core self and start to see others Core self and try to imitate that instead of their own. They do this so they can become known to the other person and gain acceptance. In the future they tend to regret doing this because they lose a sense of self and feel detached from the world and their life.
Human lifestyle is to gain acceptance from anyone. Commonly from friends, people tend to choose the wrong type of friends. At first they think that the people they call friends are really there for them because people choose to show themselves in a way that they know they would be accepted and once they show their true self that’s when you really know who your real friends are. People that choose to accept you for who your really are the people you need to surround yourself and once you have done that you would become truly happy. As spoken in the chapter “Happiness and Relationships” , once you know your core self and who you represent then you will really find your true friends.
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