The Power of Laughter

Some born with naturally and developed it early in their childhood due to their family and environment, some haven't had a normal childhood but were wise enough to realised the power of laughter and developed the skill to laugh easily and more often in their adulthood and benefited from its benefits.

Laughter has an enormous power in making yourself happier and stronger spiritually and making others around you happier as well. Develop the sense of humour.

Laughter also releases the stress and tension. It helps you enjoy life and release the joy.

Laughter boosts your confidence.

Laughter is healthy and boosts your immune system, reduces your blood pressure.

Laughter triggers our right side of brain which helps releasing creativity.

Laughter helps you sleep well at night.

Children laugh 200 times a day and adults 4 times a day in average. Be like a child, laugh easier and more often.

Laughter has a great healing power.

Laughter helps strengthening our relationship with other people, with our partner and our family.

If you have done something silly or dumb, be willing to laugh at yourself!

Do not allow life pressures and stresses make you forget to laugh!

Every time you laugh, you get stronger and happier.

Every day, look for opportunities for having fun, read funny books, watch funny movies and laugh easier, more often and openly.

Building Blocks of Self-Esteem

One of the fundamental factors in having substantial happiness in our lives is taking care of our self-esteem.

According to Dr B. Bodenhamer, the are 3 main building blocks for Self-Esteem:

1) Self-Acceptance

Self-Acceptance means accepting and loving yourself for who you are AS YOU ARE while acknowledging the strengths and weaknesses that you have. Separation of Identity from Behaviour, Skills or even Lack of Skills.

What I'd like to add here is that this element seems to be more complex than the other 2. The reason is that Our Childhood plays an important role in shaping our subconscious and automatic thoughts and feelings with regard to self-acceptance.

Did you receive Unconditional Love in childhood from whom were important to you? don't worry if you didn't. You're not alone; many didn't either!

There were expectations from us to behave or say things in certain ways from:

• Our parents
• People who were important to us e.g. a school teacher, family
• The society in which we were grown up
• Religion
• Our school
• Even ourselves

What happened if we did not meet those expectations? Have we lost, whether temporarily or permanently, the Unconditional Love that we deserved in our childhood? if so, that could hugely impact our subconscious self-acceptance now and consequently our self-esteem.

The Good News is that Reverse Engineering can work as good as Direct Engineering! What do I mean? if this is not natural/automatic for you for any realistic or unrealistic reason e.g. childhood lack of unconditional love and support, this element can be developed like any other skill.

2 main ingredients which help speeding up this development are:

1. Self-awareness; which helps identifying and being conscious about our thoughts, feelings, behaviours, memories from the past that come to mind subconsciously.
2. Once you're self-aware, then practice loving and accepting yourself as you are and unconditionally; simply because you are a Human Being and You Deserve it! separate your identity from the behaviour. Practice makes it a habit.

Why identity should be separated from behaviour?

Because identity consists of so many things and is way above 1 behaviour. It's like an ocean to a drop! our identity consists of our core beliefs, past experiences and skills, language, collection of so many different behaviours, potential for growth and success, creativity, values and so many endless great characteristics!

2) Self-Appreciation

Appreciating yourself for all the life/everyday achievements and skills you already have; seeing and remembering them.

3) Self-Awe (your potential)

Seeing and acknowledging your range of potential to change for better, achieving your goals, developing new skills and improving existing skills.

Hope these tips help building up your self-esteem and happiness and making the world a better place.

Instant Anxiety Relief at Home and Work in 5 minutes!

There are numerous articles why we may get anxiety from time to time and I'm not willing to go into the reasons and roots, just quickly to the simple solution which works in all scenarios!

Strategy at home:

1. Find a quiet room, sit on a chair or on the ground
2. Drink some water
3. Close your eyes to avoid any distraction
4. Smile widely and relax and feel good
5. Breathe deeply for 20 times while focusing on your breathe and freeing your mind from thoughts. At first, it may be difficult to focus on your breathe only but with few practices you certainly can!
6. Say aloud about 5-10 positive/hopeful sentences and beliefs against whatever worries you; there are so much power in spoken words!
7. Breathe deeply again for 10 times while focusing on your breathe and freeing your mind
8. Repeat this as many times as you wish during the day
9. When this is done, stand up and focus on doing only 1 positive action at a time and live happily. Remember, only focus on 1 positive action at a time. Positive actions bring positive thoughts and words automatically.

Strategy at work:

At work, perhaps, you often can't find the quiet room and space as mentioned above so you may need a different strategy.

To be continued...

How To Everlastingly Live In Peace and Happiness?

Peace doesn't mean inactivity. In contrast, living in peace means that we're able to be, live, move and grow in our Most Active State with all our Power and Capacity Mentally and Physically without allowing anything or any situation disturb us.

Peace is a key ingredient for achieving any success.

The only way to live in peace and happiness is to "Live In Positivity", which is a habit; you do it in every second of your life consciously until it becomes automatic and unconsciously.

Living in positivity means 3 things:

• Take positive and constructive actions.
• Think positive and constructive thoughts and visualizations.
• Say positive and constructive words.

This becomes more vital to be committed to specially when we're in any challenging situations.

This results in staying in peace while staying in happiness. Moreover, this means constant growth which brings us joy and fulfilment.

Living in positivity doesn't mean being too optimistic and naive in our life situations. It means making the most positive and constructive decision possible in every second of our life in words, deeds and thoughts.

3 Golden Questions:

• Now, what is your next positive action?
• Now, what is your next positive thought?
• Now, what is your next positive sentence you can speak?

Goal-Oriented Positivity

Another important point is that when you have a clear goal, you can direct this wisdom towards your goal which results in being in peace and happiness constantly while achieving your goal more effectively.

Ask yourself:

• Now, what is your next positive action to help you reach this goal?
• Now, what is your next positive thought to help you reach this goal?
• Now, what is your next positive sentence you can speak to help you reach this goal?

Challenge-Oriented Positivity

Life has challenges and they sometimes can disturb us mentally or physically but we can choose not to allow this and still live in peace and joy.

Ask yourself:

• Now, what is your next positive action to manage this challenge properly?
• Now, what is your next positive thought to manage this challenge properly?
• Now, what is your next positive sentence to manage this challenge properly?

Stop Believing in Your Dreams!

Some of us may dream and their dream may come true which may result in believing in their dreams!

This is not true or right and indeed it can be destructive rather than constructive. Believing in something which can impact your thoughts, actions and feelings without having you control over it.

What we dream 99% is the result of our own thoughts and feelings not necessarily foreseeing the future.

We should take responsibility for our every day of our life rather than seeing it as a dream come true.

Stop believing in the dreams; they're just the result of your own thoughts, worries and feelings. Shape your life with your own hands and always seek what good thing can be done now.

If you saw a bad dream, don't think it's an anticipation of future; just pray for it, forget it and focus on what possible positive actions you can take now.

I went through the cycle of believing in my dreams that they always come true and then came out when realized that I am the one who shapes my destiny with my actions rather than my life has to happen according to my dream; I've paid a very heavy price to learn this lesson that won't be forgotten.

Shape your life with your own actions; live by design!

Let Your Brain Brainstorm Ideas Freely

Our brains have powers more than we know and are used to it.

We're all creative but not everyone use their creativity.

Just let it brainstorm ideas quickly and limitlessly and you'll be surprised how creative you can be.

Just let your brain flow without concerning about boundaries and limitations.

Practice Daily Brainstorming until it becomes part of your character and it helps making decision what to action next.

Top Good Habits for Work and Life

Always Smile, Feel good and Enjoy

• Simple but so powerful
• Smile even when walking down the street, when you're at home or leave home, when working with computer, when talking with others, when looking at yourself in the mirror
• It makes you and people around you feel good
• It takes far fewer muscles to smile than to frown

Look for the Best

• Look for the best in every situation
• Look for the good in people and what they do.
• Be less critical and more tolerant about people.

Compliment Others

• It’s a great and highly valuable habit
• The greatest human desire is to be appreciated.
• Let your compliments be genuine

Treat Everyone as Important

• Hand out admiration and respect for people; whatever we hand out, we get back.
• The most important person for every person is himself; so treat everyone as important.

Believe In Your Success

• Act and believe as though success is inevitable.
• Picture success in your mind.

Be Always Eager to Learn

• There are always good things to learn from people, books, etc.

Be Humble to See and Accept Your Faults And Be Self-Assured!

• You can't correct your mistakes if you're not humble enough to see them honestly.

Be Action Oriented

• Set deadlines for your actions, don't wait too long.
• Action is Power but be aware it can be both constructive and destructive.
• Know when you should act and when you should just ignore or wait.