Category: Happiness and other emotion

Drama

As much as minds love to solve problems, compare and contrast, pro and con, and create “someday” carrots to dangle in front of us with the promise of lasting fulfillment, perhaps the thing they do most naturally and most often is dramatize.buy cenforce online buy cenforce no prescription no prescriptionIronically, the drama can be hard

Bean Boozled

Have you heard of this game?It’s disgusting.You spin a wheel that lands on the color of jelly bean you’ll eat. Maybe you spin yellow with red specks. That means the jelly bean you’ll eat is either strawberry banana smoothie…or barf.Yes, a barf flavored jelly bean. And it’s DISGUSTING. These jelly bean makers nailed the gross

Awesome

I say the word awesome way too much. I grew up in the 80’s, what can I say?I definitely call things awesome that don’t exactly induce “awe”. I mean, awe is big. It’s huge. My favorite greek salad is delicious, but I’m not sure beets and tomatoes are truly awesome.I’m not sure it’s truly awesome

Gratitude

We’re about halfway through the Fall 2020 LSBC course and I’m so full of gratitude.This is where things start to get real.This is where people who have spent the first couple weeks worried and comparing themselves to others, begin to relax and let things unfold as they will.This is where things often really begin to

Giddy

I love the word giddy. I love the feeling of it too. Who doesn’t?When’s the last time you felt giddy?Giddy is the feeling of so much energy–the energy that creates worlds–bubbling to the surface.So much pure, wild energy that you wiggle and bounce. Your face does funny things like Willow’s in this picture. You giggle.

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It was maybe my most meaningful gig ever. Sharing ‘how we work’ with a troop of 9-year old Girl Scouts.I asked so many questions.What do they know about their thoughts, feelings, and why they do the things they do?Where do feelings come from?How do they know things? Not the things they learn in school, but

Misread Signs (It’s The Opposite of What You Think)

I knew someone with a very sensitive stomach. The tiniest bit of worry and she’d instantly feel sick.She cursed her stomach. Saw it as a weakness, a flaw.She wanted her stomach fixed. Her mind was full of potential ways I might help her toughen up her wimpy tummy. Could we train it to not react

The Time Song Showed Up

Feeling unhappy is a habit.What else could it be?It’s not your nature. It’s not a feature of your conditions or surroundings. It’s not dictated by your DNA.It’s simply where your mind goes.You unknowingly picked it up at some point, the way you unknowingly pick up an accent or a virus.It’s where your mind goes so

What is So Horrible About a Feeling? (Or, Cute, Cuddly, Adorable Panic.)

There are a few students in The Little School of Big Change who experience panic in large crowds. We’ve been exploring this on our forum. The LSBC students have seen quite a bit about where their experience comes from.They have gotten personally curious about who they are—they aren’t anxious; they aren’t afraid of people. They

Sadness, Humiliation and Depression

I’m not typically sad. Of course I experience up and down moods like anyone, but depressed isn’t a feeling that visits very often.Except for this past summer.Off and on, here or there. There was a depth to my moods that I can’t remember experiencing in the past. A flat feeling that I recognized in theory, even