As there is more to be said for "what works" as opposed to "what's wrong"; I'd like to sumarize the case for Happiness:
1. Gratitude
2. Creating a feeling of efficacy, control, in one's life.
3. Reframing. Being open to alternative explanations.
4. Setting goals and problem solving.
5. Creativity/flow
6. Spirtual connection
7. Social connections
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Protest!
I really feel I must protest, not being able to format this blog.
I am obliged to a chronological format. No matter what.
So...I'll try to work with that. Rather, I'll have to work with that.
Having registered my complaint, not that it makes me feel better, really; not that anyone at this blogging website will notice...
Somehow, registering something, in a "cloud of witnesses" somewhere, makes a difference.
I am obliged to a chronological format. No matter what.
So...I'll try to work with that. Rather, I'll have to work with that.
Having registered my complaint, not that it makes me feel better, really; not that anyone at this blogging website will notice...
Somehow, registering something, in a "cloud of witnesses" somewhere, makes a difference.
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Greeting the stranger who is yourself
Love After Love
The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
Derek Walcott
[emphasis my own]
The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
Derek Walcott
[emphasis my own]
I'm back
The gardens have been put to bed.
I'd like to continue where I left off. Previously, I was trying to summarize a Psychology of Happiness book I was reading earlier this year.
We often have a "pathology" approach to figuring things out. i.e. What went wrong? Rather than, what goes right. What are the practices of happy "normal" people?
Entries from January to March were an attempt to address those ideas. I wish there was a way I could file them under that topic; rather than have this chronological format.
Since I've last posted, I've been through a couple of treatment programs and living situations. I'd like to speak to both. Please refer back to the Durham Region Resource (January 15, 2011) entry. I will keep updating that as I find/experience new information and situations.
I'd like to continue where I left off. Previously, I was trying to summarize a Psychology of Happiness book I was reading earlier this year.
We often have a "pathology" approach to figuring things out. i.e. What went wrong? Rather than, what goes right. What are the practices of happy "normal" people?
Entries from January to March were an attempt to address those ideas. I wish there was a way I could file them under that topic; rather than have this chronological format.
Since I've last posted, I've been through a couple of treatment programs and living situations. I'd like to speak to both. Please refer back to the Durham Region Resource (January 15, 2011) entry. I will keep updating that as I find/experience new information and situations.
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