THE POSITIVITY MOVEMENT

☺ THE POSITIVITY MOVEMENT ☺

Happiness is a Choice! Let's make this world a better place by choosing to be happy and making the people around us happy. Let’s spread the Love and the Good Vibes!

Happiness is our birthright as human beings. There is no doubt that life can be hard — living in today’s world is not always easy especially with the overwhelming amount of negativity around us.

So say YES to happiness! Make a conscious decision to be happy. You can be happy right now. It’s all up to you.

Be a steward of happiness and good vibes! The happiest people are those who have given the most to others. Do a random act of kindness everyday. It doesn't need to be big; it could be a small deed or a gesture that will brighten up someone's day!

• Hold the door for someone
• Compliment a friend
• Let in a merging motorist
• Carry groceries for a senior
• Say good morning to a co-worker
• Phone an old friend
• Bring cupcakes to the office
• … Or just give someone a friendly smile

There are countless possibilities! The smallest good deed is better than hundreds of good intentions without action.


START TODAY!


"Be the CHANGE that you want to see in the world" - Gandhi

People Share News Online that Inspires Awe, Researchers Find

Findings

By JOHN TIERNEY

Published: February 8, 2010
The New York Times

People preferred e-mailing articles with positive rather than negative themes, and they liked to send long articles on intellectually challenging topics.Perhaps most of all, readers wanted to share articles that inspired awe, an emotion that the researchers investigated after noticing how many science articles made the list.

... More emotional stories were more likely to be e-mailed, the researchers found, and positive articles were shared more than negative ones. Longer articles generally did better than shorter articles, although Dr. Berger said that might just be because the longer articles were about more engaging topics.

... “Emotion in general leads to transmission, and awe is quite a strong emotion,” he said. “If I’ve just read this story that changes the way I understand the world and myself, I want to talk to others about what it means. I want to proselytize and share the feeling of awe. If you read the article and feel the same emotion, it will bring us closer together.”

Tips on Feelings and Thoughts

Excerpt from "Life's Missing Instruction Manual"

"Your feelings are hidden thoughts"

The idea here is to master your feelings, to do so, you have to become aware.

"Your feelings are from your thoughts. Change your thoughts, and you'll change your feelings."

"You can't stop your thoughts but you don't have to listen to them, either"

It takes time to make changes to your thinking habit. So meantime, we take this as you should mute out the noise as best as we can.

Meditate helps us to do that by keeping us calm and peace. Try. It's hard in the beginning, but everything is hard in the beginning, isn't it?

"Be Not Afraid"

"...there is nothing to fear. This will be hard to accept because of your mind, which will terrify you with scenarios to make you afraid."

not be afraid, walk through the fear.

"What to do when you are afraid"

"Whenever you are afraid, uncomfortable, nervous, or worried, do the opposite of what you would naturally do."

"Confusion is the wonderful state before clarity"

"At times in your life you will become confused.
It's okay."

"How you feel really does matter"

"How you feel is up to you."
"Your emotional experience of life is so important. When we feel curious, grateful, loving, or happy, life seems like a precious gift. But if you are ridden with guilt, filled with fear, so angry that no love can enter your heart, or so resentful that joy is only an irritating word, then life is more like hell on earth."

"Exercising your emotional options allows you to experience life on your own terms in the most real way possible. It's like magic. You can create the result first. You can be happy even before you change all of those things you want to change."