How to Have Joy and Peace Right Now
By
Dr. Alex Loyd / Source: The
Healing Codes
I want joy and peace now. How about you? And I believe you can have them.
My question is what is keeping you from joy and peace now in your life? The first thing to look at is what is blocking them.
I have seen that there are two things blocking joy and peace in almost every situation. They are a focusing too much on the past or focusing too much on the future in a negative way.
Studies have come out in the last number of years that talk about how traditional counseling and therapy often make people worse instead of better. Let me be very careful here to explain that this is the kind of therapy where you're basically just going back to your problems and rehashing them over and over and over. Research is indicating that a lot of times that makes the problem worse. I don't have any trouble at all believing that.
We have a dear friend who is horribly depressed right now. She's horribly depressed for a number of reasons, but two of them are that she has a negative focus on the past and a negative focus on the future. She goes back to the past in her mind, reliving painful, harmful things. And she goes to the future in her mind, living out bad things that haven't even happened yet.
You may be saying, "Loyd, how can she live things that haven't happened yet?" She can because the heart does not differentiate between what is real and what is imagined. When you imagine something happening in the future, whether it's finances or health or relationships or the car breaking down, to your heart that is actually happening. Imagining an event releases all the same chemicals as living the event right now, which puts you into stress mode.
Anyone who has worked with The Healing Codes for very long knows that stress is the cause of almost any problem you can have, at least on a physical level. So it gets us into big trouble emotionally and physiologically when we focus on negative things from the past and negative things from the future.
I want to share with you something that can help you stop doing that. I want to explain how to stay focused in the present time in truth and love.
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Laughter Yoga, Serious Benefits
By
Lizette Alvarez / Source: New York Times
I was in a vile, despicable mood when I arrived at laughter yoga.
It was Wednesday, and my brain felt torn in one too many directions; the usual, only worse. Laughter seemed a remote possibility.
I waited patiently inside a nondescript office at 40th Street and Broadway among a group of wildly divergent strangers, with only my skepticism to keep me company.
"There are some simple rules," Vishwa Prakash, the laughter therapist and coach who runs this group, told us at the start of the session, which is free. "Let's be as joyful as we can. Let's look at each other directly in the eye. And if you don't know what's happening, fake it till you make it."
An hour later I floated out onto Broadway, ready to break into song and speed-dial a few friends to sign them up for the next class. This stuff worked.
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Dreams Make You Smarter & More Creative, Studies Suggest
REM sleep boosts memory, creativity, and more, experts announce.
By
Rachel Kaufman / Source: National Geographic
Here's more evidence that sleep, including napping, can make you smarter. Dreaming may improve memory, boost creativity, and help you better plan for the future, new research suggests.
In a recent study, people who took naps featuring REM sleep -- in which dreams are most vivid -- performed better on creativity-oriented word problems. That is, the REM, or rapid eye movement, sleep helped people combine ideas in new ways, according to psychiatrist Sara Mednick, who led the study.
Part of the experiment's morning round involved a word-analogy test, similar to some SAT problems. For example, given "chips: salty::candy:_____" the answer would have been "sweet."
At midday, after the first round, the subjects were given a 90-minute rest period, during which they were monitored.
Some participants took naps with REM sleep, which typically begins more than an hour after a person falls asleep. Others took an REM-less nap. A third group rested quietly but didn't sleep.
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Meditation vs. Medication: Your Path to Happiness?
 By
Laura Silva / Source: The
Silva Method
As Silva students, we're fortunate enough to have tips and techniques that can naturally help us achieve happiness. This of course, include meditation, which is the key ingredient used in all of Silva Method's exercises.
Meditation helps us to relax our mind and body while giving us physical as well as inner peace. It heals stress, anxiety as well as depression.
We already know that engaging in activities that relieve you from stress, anxiety and depression, such as meditation, can reduce the negative energies in our system leading to happiness.
Unfortunately, there are still so many out there who have yet to experience its wondrous benefits.
So, in their quest to achieve happiness, they try various methods that may include medication, drugs and other adrenaline-rushing activities which just aren't healthy in the long run.
For this reason alone, I am very happy to see that meditation is being recognized more and more in the medical world for its natural and permanent benefits.
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