Here is an another gem from Oliver's article (see previous posts):
"In a study entitled After The Movies, some crafty Australian researchers grilled people leaving the cinema about their views on politics and morality; they discovered that those leaving happy films were optimistic and lenient, while those leaving aggressive or sad ones were far more pessimistic and strict. (They tried to control for the fact that different kinds of people might choose different kinds of movies in the first place.)
I bet you have already guessed what I am going to suggest. That's right. Build up a collection of comedy
DVDs.
I have lots of them. Laurel and Hardy, The Birdcage,
Shakespeare In Love, Jim Carrey etc,.
There was a study done years ago that watching comedy movies helped people who were in extreme pain. It produces chemicals that are good for you.
So you can lift your mood and, at the same, give yourself a health tonic.
I watch them when I'm in a good mood so that I can feel even better. You can't feel too good.
I know people have that saying:
'I felt great but it was too good to last.'
But you can feel great and you can make it last.
All day and every day, when you know how.
:-)
P.S I'll be starting a forum soon. You will be able to explore and discuss all the ideas and techniques mentioned on this blog and over on Squidoo.
T
Wednesday 25 November 2009
Sunday 22 November 2009
More Health, Wealth And Lots Of Love
Here is a link I posted a few days ago. If you haven't read it yet, please read it now.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/oct/31/change-your-life-sudden-exposure
I am going to discuss several important points that he makes. Here is the one that I want mention:-
Oliver writes
"I think of myself as generally happy, but every so often I'm struck by a fleeting mood of unhappiness or anxiety that quickly escalates. On a really bad day, I may spend hours stuck in angst-ridden maunderings, wondering if I need to make major changes in my life. It's usually then that I realise I've forgotten to eat lunch. One tuna sandwich later, the mood is gone. And yet, "Am I hungry?" is never my first response to feeling bad: my brain, apparently, would prefer to distress itself with reflections on the ultimate meaninglessness of human existence than to direct my body to a nearby branch of Pret A Manger."
Let's reduce that to basics.
Your blood sugar controls your mood, controls your thinking and controls your behaviour. One way of making use of this is to eat smaller meals more often.
My eating plan is not to go more than three or four hours without eating. DO NOT use this as an excuse to eat rubbishy stuff like chocolate or crisps or cake.
This is an eating PLAN. Plan it. If I think that I will be out for too long, I take a healthy snack out with me.
You will not buy a healthy snack over a shop counter.
Perhaps fresh fruit.
Small, healthy snacks every three or four hours throughout the day. Don't forget, your first food must be as soon as you get up. When you get up, your blood sugar is low because you haven't eaten for so long. You must get it up as soon as possible. If you don't, it stays low all day. And you will be suffering the low mood that Oliver mentions in his article. Eat as soon as you get up.
Later is too late. You will not get any warning. The effects of low blood sugar will creep up on you and you just lose all the edge and energy and that get up and go that you are going to need for your new life.
:-)
More about diet, food and health soon
T
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/oct/31/change-your-life-sudden-exposure
I am going to discuss several important points that he makes. Here is the one that I want mention:-
Oliver writes
"I think of myself as generally happy, but every so often I'm struck by a fleeting mood of unhappiness or anxiety that quickly escalates. On a really bad day, I may spend hours stuck in angst-ridden maunderings, wondering if I need to make major changes in my life. It's usually then that I realise I've forgotten to eat lunch. One tuna sandwich later, the mood is gone. And yet, "Am I hungry?" is never my first response to feeling bad: my brain, apparently, would prefer to distress itself with reflections on the ultimate meaninglessness of human existence than to direct my body to a nearby branch of Pret A Manger."
Let's reduce that to basics.
Your blood sugar controls your mood, controls your thinking and controls your behaviour. One way of making use of this is to eat smaller meals more often.
My eating plan is not to go more than three or four hours without eating. DO NOT use this as an excuse to eat rubbishy stuff like chocolate or crisps or cake.
This is an eating PLAN. Plan it. If I think that I will be out for too long, I take a healthy snack out with me.
You will not buy a healthy snack over a shop counter.
Perhaps fresh fruit.
Small, healthy snacks every three or four hours throughout the day. Don't forget, your first food must be as soon as you get up. When you get up, your blood sugar is low because you haven't eaten for so long. You must get it up as soon as possible. If you don't, it stays low all day. And you will be suffering the low mood that Oliver mentions in his article. Eat as soon as you get up.
Later is too late. You will not get any warning. The effects of low blood sugar will creep up on you and you just lose all the edge and energy and that get up and go that you are going to need for your new life.
:-)
More about diet, food and health soon
T
Saturday 21 November 2009
Deep down Health, Wealth And Lots Of Love
Here is a link I posted a few days ago. If you haven't read it yet, please read it now.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/oct/31/change-your-life-sudden-exposure
I am going to discuss several important points that he makes. Here is the one that I want mention:-
"The first, as Schwarz points out, is the forgetting: knowing there's a simple fix doesn't mean you'll remember it when you need to."
This is of tremendous important. We have all had this experience. You make up your mind that, in future, you will NEVER do a certain thing again. Have too much alcohol, smoke a cigarette, eat chocolate. Whatever!
However, suddenly you find yourself half way through doing it again! Your plan has crumpled.
This is a a key point in all plans for self improvement.
All those plans, promises and vows you made to yourself just slip your mind. You forget about them.
There is a lot of wise, old sayings for this. Such as:
If you fall off the horse, you have to get back on.
This may work with horse riders but it doesn't seem to work with people who want to make changes in their
life.
Nearly everybody who wants to make improvements
in their lives, falls into the 'just forgot for a moment' trap.
BUT they don't get back on the horse. They give up. There are many complicated reasons for this. The behaviours that I mention. Alcohol, overeating and smoking may be very simple behaviours but they are very powerful. The roots are buried deep inside you.
There are physical, mental and social connections.
They are buried deep inside your psyche and you have to be able to go down to that level in order to stop them. Your plans to make all changes in your life, all your plans for more health, wealth and lots of love, have to be at that level.
There are ways to make this happen. Ways to embed your plans, wishes and desires deep inside your persona.
They will not just be easily forgotten thoughts in your head.
They will be strong forces working deep inside you all the time.
They will be a real part of you.
The real you.
The new, real you.
:-)
The first, as Schwarz points out, is the forgetting: knowing there's a simple fix doesn't mean you'll remember it when you need to.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/oct/31/change-your-life-sudden-exposure
I am going to discuss several important points that he makes. Here is the one that I want mention:-
"The first, as Schwarz points out, is the forgetting: knowing there's a simple fix doesn't mean you'll remember it when you need to."
This is of tremendous important. We have all had this experience. You make up your mind that, in future, you will NEVER do a certain thing again. Have too much alcohol, smoke a cigarette, eat chocolate. Whatever!
However, suddenly you find yourself half way through doing it again! Your plan has crumpled.
This is a a key point in all plans for self improvement.
All those plans, promises and vows you made to yourself just slip your mind. You forget about them.
There is a lot of wise, old sayings for this. Such as:
If you fall off the horse, you have to get back on.
This may work with horse riders but it doesn't seem to work with people who want to make changes in their
life.
Nearly everybody who wants to make improvements
in their lives, falls into the 'just forgot for a moment' trap.
BUT they don't get back on the horse. They give up. There are many complicated reasons for this. The behaviours that I mention. Alcohol, overeating and smoking may be very simple behaviours but they are very powerful. The roots are buried deep inside you.
There are physical, mental and social connections.
They are buried deep inside your psyche and you have to be able to go down to that level in order to stop them. Your plans to make all changes in your life, all your plans for more health, wealth and lots of love, have to be at that level.
There are ways to make this happen. Ways to embed your plans, wishes and desires deep inside your persona.
They will not just be easily forgotten thoughts in your head.
They will be strong forces working deep inside you all the time.
They will be a real part of you.
The real you.
The new, real you.
:-)
The first, as Schwarz points out, is the forgetting: knowing there's a simple fix doesn't mean you'll remember it when you need to.
Wednesday 18 November 2009
Health, Wealth And Lots Of Love?
Here is a link to a great article. It was in an earlier blog. I want to talk about it some more. Here is the link again:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/oct/31/change-your-life-sudden-exposure
There are lots of important facts in this new research.
Ones that show that a lot of the wisdom that has been
put out in this area are real facts.
People read a book, watch a tape or go to a lecture to learn how to make changes in their quality of life. They try the advice and lessons given and somehow nothing happens.
The article explains that these pieces of knowledge do work. And there been many, other, different research programmes This article only mentions a couple.
So what goes wrong?
Why don't the books and tapes and lectures work?
Why aren't you enjoying health, wealth and lots of love?
These findings do work. The scientists and researchers have proven it time and time again.
So why aren't they working for YOU?
The reason they don't work for you is that you are not working with them in the right way.
The people who advise you on WHAT to do, do not tell you HOW to do it.
When they are doing their work they have an exact, easy, perfect way of doing it so they that they make good progress and get good results. Researchers all over the world use the same methods.
They know exactly what they want to work with. They take notes on what they are doing, they ignore the poor results. They concentrate on the good results. In other words they have a PLAN to succeed. If they don't get successful results, they get fired.
And this is what you did not get from those books, and tapes and lectures. They tell you what you should be doing but they don't tell you how you should be doing it. The stuff they give you is good stuff but you find that you just don't know how to use it. You try it, you get some results and then it falls away.
This is why I have designed my Better Life Plan. To provide what these other methods don't.
You will work on your life, the way those researchers do.
Let me repeat what I said above:
"They know exactly what they want to work with. They take notes on what they are doing, they ignore the poor results. They concentrate on the good results. In other words they have a PLAN to succeed. If they don't get successful results, they get fired."
And you will succeed.
My plan will take you from where you are now, and it doesn't matter where you are now, to where you want to be, and it doesn't matter where you want to be.
If you really want it, you will get it.
All you have to do is follow the plan.
:-)
Friday 13 November 2009
This Will Change Your Life
Here is a great article. It contains information and advice that will let you lift your life to the next level.
My next blog explore how you can use it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/oct/31/change-your-life-sudden-exposure
My next blog explore how you can use it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/oct/31/change-your-life-sudden-exposure
Sunday 8 November 2009
Study The Back Posts
Sorry that I haven't posted for a few days. I have been working on my Squidoo page ( link is near the top on the main blog page). I hope you spent the time looking back over the stuff that I have already written here.
This is important. You must read it, soak it up and make it part of your thinking. As I have already told you, you have to understand the thinking, you have to believe that you can do it and then, and only then, will you get the sort of life that you would really love to have.
Keep going over the back posts and my Squidoo link.
And post your questions, comments and criticism both here and on Squidoo. On Squidoo they are called Blurbs(???)
This is important. You must read it, soak it up and make it part of your thinking. As I have already told you, you have to understand the thinking, you have to believe that you can do it and then, and only then, will you get the sort of life that you would really love to have.
Keep going over the back posts and my Squidoo link.
And post your questions, comments and criticism both here and on Squidoo. On Squidoo they are called Blurbs(???)
Great Quote
"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experiences to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences"
Eleanour Roosevelt
This is exactly what we have to do. To learn how to reach out, take hold of and love every moment of our lives. We have to learn how to deal with any problems that come to us. The tougher the problem, the sweeter the satisfaction when you overcome it.
Eleanour Roosevelt
This is exactly what we have to do. To learn how to reach out, take hold of and love every moment of our lives. We have to learn how to deal with any problems that come to us. The tougher the problem, the sweeter the satisfaction when you overcome it.
Friday 6 November 2009
Progress
Hi
Sorry that I haven't posted for a time. I've been laying out an overall view of just how you will be able to power up your life.
Please go to my Squidoo page to have a look.
Click on the Squidoo link at the top of this page.
www.squidoo.com/betterlifenow
When you have read it, come back here and read some of the articles etc.,that I mention.
Here is my latest post:
My first book is about a third finished. It will be a collection of articles, essays and instructions. This book will not be about what I THINK, it will be about YOU. With your feedback I can write the book so that it deals with what YOU want to know, it answers the questions that YOU want to ask and it gives you the guidance that YOU need. This will not be like the last book you read. This will be the book that YOU want to make the improvements in YOUR life that YOU really want. As I write it it will be free to read here. Just click on the archives on the right to read all of them. Please give comments or ask any questions freely. When it is finished it will be a free ebook for a time. And then I will start a second, more advanced book. The second book will be all based on what you will want.
Please let me know your views. You can post here or over on Squidoo.
More soon.
Sorry that I haven't posted for a time. I've been laying out an overall view of just how you will be able to power up your life.
Please go to my Squidoo page to have a look.
Click on the Squidoo link at the top of this page.
www.squidoo.com/betterlifenow
When you have read it, come back here and read some of the articles etc.,that I mention.
Here is my latest post:
My first book is about a third finished. It will be a collection of articles, essays and instructions. This book will not be about what I THINK, it will be about YOU. With your feedback I can write the book so that it deals with what YOU want to know, it answers the questions that YOU want to ask and it gives you the guidance that YOU need. This will not be like the last book you read. This will be the book that YOU want to make the improvements in YOUR life that YOU really want. As I write it it will be free to read here. Just click on the archives on the right to read all of them. Please give comments or ask any questions freely. When it is finished it will be a free ebook for a time. And then I will start a second, more advanced book. The second book will be all based on what you will want.
Please let me know your views. You can post here or over on Squidoo.
More soon.
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