On The Emotions

What Lies Behind Your Anger?

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“Anger is the emotion that destroys what it fears.” – Anonymous Experiencing anger is like losing control of a fast car – people get hurt, and you’re powerless to stop it. Although we all get angry with someone or something and take it out on them (or any unfortunate person in the wrong place at the wrong time), we rarely stop and ask why our anger gets the better of us. Why do we get angry so much? What is our anger really telling us? The outbreak of an emotion is the result of a long time of mental activity which can often go undetected. It’s similar to a volcano

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7 Ways To Feel Satisfied With Your Life Right Now

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“I can’t say I want to earn a particular award or sell a certain number of records, because even if I do that, the satisfaction only lasts five minutes.” – Chantal Kreviazuk That feeling of satisfaction, of deep contentment that makes you feel wonderful inside – I believe you can feel it right now. It’s the human condition to want to feel amazing. No-one likes despairing about life, feeling depressed and rundown, and no-one likes feeling helpless and frightened. This is why so many people actively seek to reach that goal, yet they fall down time and time again. But it’s entirely possible to feel completely content with your life

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When Life Gets In The Way

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*NOTE: A big THANK YOU to everyone who took the time to comment on my previous post, Redundancy And The Things It Brings. It means a lot to read such kind words.* “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans” – John Lennon Routines are there to keep us in order, right? And order helps us out, it provides us with a set system to follow, things to do, and we get a sense of accomplishment because things have gone to plan and we feel good about it. “That was a productive day yesterday, I felt good about it, because I got to check off most things on

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The Force That Drives

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“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And Today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.” – Babatunde Olatunji I recently questioned the value of life. I don’t say this because I’ve been thinking of taking my own life, or anything else in that extreme, far from it. I’m happy, I’m healthy, and I generally feel good about life. But these past few days, I’ve been having new thoughts, new forms of thinking enter my head and I’m not sure where they’ve come from. They seem pretty new to me, yet it feels like I’ve known them for a long time. I’ve been thinking a lot

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B.E.

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Do you find yourself restless and lost? Do you find yourself without focus? Have you lost yourself? Just be. Just be free. Be yourself. Be true. Be true to you. Be happy. Be carefree. Be whoever you want to be. Be sad. Be angry. Be frustrated. Be the emotion. Be all that you can be. Be curious. Be lively. Be interested. Be intrigued. Be innovative. Be the question. Be the answer. Be what you want to do. Be your goal. Be your passion. Be your desire. Be desire. Be passion. Be truth. Be you. Be you every day. You are you. You are who you are, because you are. Be

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My Experiences With Life And Death

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“Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis There’s been a lot going on with birth and death in my life recently. In a nutshell, my grandma passed away on the 13th March, and my girlfriend’s sister had a baby on the February 20th. But what was the deciding factor for this post was a message received on Facebook from an university friend, who had seen my website, asking me if I could write something to do with bereavement, as her mother had passed away last year. So I have now

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Let’s Talk About Happiness

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“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.” – Eleanor Roosevelt Can you honestly say that you’re happy? No worries if you can’t, I don’t think I’m that happy all in all. I may seem happy, and there’s a lot of stuff in life that I have positive feelings about, but deep down there’s still a few things which I’m not happy about. I still have childhood memories that haunt me, I still have insecurities about not being good enough. I’m human, after all. Least I think I am, last

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Ways To Make Valentine’s Day More Lovable

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“Who, being loved, is poor?”  – Oscar Wilde *I will be in Paris on Monday! The next article will appear next week, and any comments will not be answered until I return. Sorry about that.* Valentine’s Day. The day of love, of romance, of spending lots of time with your loved one and cherishing the special moments. As Christmas is about family, and your birthday is about you, Valentine’s Day is about your other half. Yet, how many of you will spend the day focusing on your partner? Do you set aside time to be with them, or do you treat the day as normal and carry on what you

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