Small changes can improve your life
Many unhappy people spend years in therapy with psychologists and psychiatrists, yet they achieve little or no results regarding their problems or even small changes in their modes of behavior. Are there not more direct activities that a person can undertake that will have a more significant impact on their lives and cost much less at the same time?
In fact, there are small changes that a person can make in their daily life to dramatically improve their happiness levels, but before reaching them, heed this WARNING: The tips below are not a substitute for professional treatment of serious health conditions. mental like depression. bipolar disorder, various anxiety disorders, etc. – Always make sure to seek proper care if you feel that you are suffering from any of the aforementioned problems.
Here are twenty activities you can do that will hopefully improve your level of happiness or your overall sense of well-being. Each of them is based (loosely) on the butterfly effect, which is prominent in chaos theory. The Butterfly Effect states that small changes in the initial conditions of a system can lead to extreme variations in behavior later on (a common example is that a butterfly flapping its wings in, say, Brazil can cause a tornado later in Kansas), which shows that in some ‘systems’, the little things can make a drastic difference in overall behavior. The following twenty tips and quotes are based on the same principle and involve doing short, simple activities that are not time-consuming or difficult, but can dramatically improve your life. Don’t expect to be “cured” or “cured”, but it may at least bring you some benefits.
1. If you feel depressed or sad on a certain day and want to feel better, look at yourself in the bathroom mirror and put a big smile on your face, even if you have to force it. Hold on to that smile for at least thirty seconds and you should soon feel a little better about yourself.
2. To keep your personal relationships at their best, whenever you feel critical of your spouse, friend, or family member, balance the criticism by saying five positive things about them later.
3. If you ever lose your wallet and want to make sure it is returned to you, keep a photo of an adorable child in the wallet that is highly visible. Whoever finds your wallet will feel more sympathetic to you when they see the child, and will hopefully return it to you.
4. Compartment the little worries and anxieties that arise during the day by imagining a big black box and whenever a negative thought enters your mind, place it deep within the black box and snap it shut, and then allow the thought to leave. your mind forever. .
5. Quote: “You gain strength, courage and confidence with every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You can say to yourself: ‘I have lived this horror. I can take the next thing that comes. You must do the that you think you can’t do. ” -Eleanor Roosevelt
6. Say that you are talking to someone and you want to convince them of something or persuade them in some way. According to psychologists, an effective way to liven up the conversation and make it seem more enjoyable is to mention your favorite pet or animal (the dumber the better, such as a turtle or hamster), which will “humanize” your personality and help persuade the person you are trying to convince.
7. Learn to embrace the elements of chaos and uncertainty in your life and accept them as natural to achieve your main goals. No one can be sure where your individual journeys will take you, so learn to overcome your fear of the unknown by accepting uncertainty as necessary, and hopefully the results will surprise you.
8. Quote: “Be patient with everything that is unresolved in your heart and … try to love the questions themselves. Do not look now for the answers, which they cannot give you because you could not live them. Live the questions now. Perhaps then gradually, unknowingly, I live in the answer. ” – Rainer Maria Rilke
9. Regarding personal growth, be sure to remove negative thoughts from your brain: instead of allowing harmful phrases to enter, frequently replace them with positive phrases. For example, “I am gaining too much weight” should become “I know I will lose weight soon”; and “I will never find a boyfriend or girlfriend!” will change to “the perfect guy is on his way into my life right now!” Having positive information in your subconscious (or unconscious) mind is extremely important, as the job of that part of your brain is to bring whatever information it contains to fruition.
10. Is there someone you would like to impress or want a particular person to take an interest in you? Psychologists say that the best way to make someone like you is not to give them a gift or do something for them, but to do them a small favor – reverse psychology in action.
11. Experts have stated that “fear” can be translated into FEAR = ‘FALSE EVIDENCE THAT APPEARS REAL’. Excessive fear prevents you from seeking possibilities and new opportunities in life. Don’t let fear control you at any time. Whenever too much fear invades your mind, visualize yourself erasing the fear from your brain. Also take the time to write your fears on paper, then tear the paper up and throw it away.
12. Advice on beautiful women: The true beauty of a woman shows through her personality and how she chooses to live her life and how she treats people on a daily basis.
13. Life Goals Tip: At the end of each day, ask yourself if the daily activities you have been doing are constantly leading you in the right direction to achieve your main goals, or if they are slowly moving you away from them, then make changes respectively.
14. Hygiene advice. To ensure your breath smells fresh and clean during your next appointment, after dinner, have a small serving of green tea flavored ice cream. Green tea will fight any bacteria in your mouth and mask unpleasant odors.
15. When exercising, try using a treadmill for best results. Treadmills are less stressful on your ankles, back, and knees, and instantly list valuable feedback (readings of distance traveled, calories burned, etc.), which will encourage you to complete more work and make you feel good about yourself. .
16. Do you want to lose weight? Drink from tall, narrow glasses to cut calories; and put a mirror in your kitchen to enhance its appearance; Then write down everything you eat in the course of a day.
17. Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers, a recent best-selling book, claimed that the most successful people have practiced their craft for more than ten thousand hours in whatever respective field they have chosen. Start practicing towards your 10,000 hours today.
18. For better sleep, find a comfortable bed and make sure the room is quiet and dark. Excessive light will hinder the production of melatonin. Also avoid stimulants like caffeine and nicotine, and avoid consuming alcohol before bed. Stimulants will last you for hours, and while alcohol will initially relax you, it also quickly empties your body to wake you up after just a few hours of rest.
19. Financial advice: make the right decisions about where to spend your money. If there is a certain store or restaurant whose general philosophy you approve of, be sure to spend a lot of money there to support them. But if there are business establishments whose practices you disagree with, don’t spend your money there. This will make you feel good about doing a small part to improve the world.
20. Instead of being materialistic and buying possession after possession, most of which you may never use, try to gain interesting life experiences that will stay with you forever. Attend a concert you wouldn’t normally see, go to an unusual restaurant, and travel to a country you’ve always wanted to visit. Instead of acquiring new toys, live for unique activities that will provide you with interesting experiences important enough to share with your friends and loved ones.
It may not be a lot, but remember that great things come from small things. You have nothing to lose, so try to see how small changes can end up improving your life.