There are huge loads of books that tell one how to be happy, mindful, but not why and don´t show in such immense detail the unbelievable impact of becThere are huge loads of books that tell one how to be happy, mindful, but not why and don´t show in such immense detail the unbelievable impact of becoming the Buddha. Such a cool God, tells one to search for errors in his ideas he calls not perfect, that´s a rare occasion.
Buddhism, neuroscience, psychotherapy,... tell one quite the same as Shawn does, but he does it in such a thrilling, understandable and astonishing way and mixes all approaches together to a laughing amalgam.
Positive psychology is the interdisciplinary idea and new science field of not just using the, often criticized, methods of psychology and psychotherapy, but to substantiate and fuse the good ideas with meditation, mindfulness, introspection, and self(mind)control.
Of course there are limits, horrible things that happened to people can´t be laughed or meditated away, in those cases the self-help has to be accompanied and mixed with psychotropic drugs and therapy. But for each lucky person who hasn´t suffered or is suffering from abuse, violence, illness, mobbing, loss of loved ones, poverty, mental disease,... there is truly no reason to be something else than happy.
Not any other person, a memory, the world; the opposite, adversarial political, ideological point of view consensed in annoying humans, other drivers, whining kids, nagging partners, lazy workmates, parents-in-law, newspapers,... make one angry, unmotivated, hateful, misanthropic, disinterested,... It´s oneself who cuts inside her/his own flesh by letting those outer impulses and past memories and future sorrows occupy the current state of mind and so the chain reaction kicks in.
Anger breeds hate, violence more violence,... What should a toxic person do it she/he recognized that you never get angry, stay calm and friendly, make them even angrier because you openly show them that you just smile at them, don´t care, ridicule them instead by not reacting in a negative manner to their provocations.
Leaving the circle is so easy by first just doing nothing and automatizing and perfecting the mantras and methods of meditation, mindfulness, autogenic training, laughter yoga,… We are creatures of habit and cultivating the dark or light side hundred to thousand times a day forms a life. One can see the last time consequences and whose side they devoted their lives to in elder peoples faces and differentiate if the lively eyes bursting from creativity are outlined by laugher lines or if it are dull eyes with worry lines, making them look like a turned around joker face with huge labial angel wrinkles hanging as deep as possible. Both epic monuments of a life lived happily or miserably.
And because happiness comes with huge health benefits, it´s very possible that the positive grandpa may still be laughing while grumpy old men have already killed themselves a long time ago, by not just opening the doors to their minds for each negative emotion, but their physis for much more illnesses and directly self-induced stress-related health problems.
A description of how adults and parents can awake the fascination, love and interest for nature in kids and how mindfulness and sustainability can be A description of how adults and parents can awake the fascination, love and interest for nature in kids and how mindfulness and sustainability can be taught to the smallest that will grow to the decision-makers of the future.
As I like to say, this is a positive example of "Give them to us when they are young and they belong to us forever." and what lies closer, what is more logical, natural and self-explaining than to go outside in the wilderness and just be, examine, walk, hike, wander and absorb all those impressions, smells and unique panoramas and settings. Go, in contrast, in anything manmade, clinical, cold and empty and there is nothing, just the space filled with inanimate objects.
The research of the future will show how strong and important the environments we used to live in since just a few hundred years ago were for our health and how the lack of nature around us influences our mind, body, soul and evolution, what senses we lose and which one we might get. For kids, who are much more sensitive and openminded and live in the ever bigger and faster-growing cities, it might have consequences we don´t even consider yet. We already know much about the general health benefits and the ones for recovering patients, but nothing about the long term health and mental effects of a lack of nature, besides allergies and a much higher rate of psychological problems in cities.
Greening cities, new city planning concepts that include vast amounts of trees and bushes to fight overheating, air pollution and other consequences of climate change, is a great step in the right direction. Could be combined with including animals in those areas and an infrastructure and net of more conservation areas, national parks and city parks so that nature doesn´t have to stay an abstract something one has to drive hours to for a short visit or a holiday, but something omnipresent referring to the fact that we came from there and are nothing without out.
And it hasn´t to be focused just on kids, nobody is too old to learn to love the planet and each individuum whose mind has been opened is a strengthening of the civil society that has to promote a change to an eco-social focus in all regards.
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