Laugh to Get Better

The world-famous Norman Cousins did a research on the biochemistry of human emotions, which he believed were the key to human beings' success in fighting illness. When later on he was diagnosed with a form of arthritis and he was given little chance of surviving, Cousins followed his own treatment p

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Emotions and Habits

You have probably noticed that us, humans, are very habitual beings. We get used to things very easy and once we establish a routine, it is a lot easier to stay within the routine than change it. If you are used to somebody in your life, for instance, and at the same time you are highly unhappy in t

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Who Is in Charge of Your Emotions?

Most people feel that their emotions are like the weather. If they feel sad, they believe that the sadness needs to be experienced fully, like a cloud of rain that needs to rain itself out before the sun can start shining again. If they feel angry, they feel it was a result of outside circumstances

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Why Is It Important to Be Happy?

Most of us, through our life experiences, have lost our inner peace and balance. And because this was a gradual change, we don’t even notice that we don’t have the necessary stability, we are just accepting our inner turbulence as part of who we are. After all, everybody else is like that, so w

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