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Depression & Facebook: the banes of my existence...
Candy replied to davidwilcox1982 's topic in Mental Health Forum
Hi, David. You're definitely not alone! I often a take social media hiatus for the same reason. It elevates my states of dissatisfaction and I go days and weeks without feeling good, especially the Instagram devil haha As soon as I take a break though, I notice how I slowly begin to open up and blossom again and live in gratitude rather than fear, frustration and lack. I, too, rely on social networks to communicate with my friends and family as most of them are scattered all over the world, so I can't ignore it completely, but it helps me a great deal knowing there are other platforms I can visit to replenish my soul needs ☺️ I'm so glad you've joined us and find this community helpful. If you haven't already done so, may I suggest browsing the happiness Academy? There might be a course or two that interests you. Some of them are free I look forward to hearing more from you in the days and weeks to come. -
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Lizzie replied to josedev 's topic in Introduction Circle - A warm welcome to happiness!
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Hello one and all!
Lizzie replied to davidwilcox1982 's topic in Introduction Circle - A warm welcome to happiness!
Welcome to happiness David! We hope you'll find our little community useful, and look forward to 'seeing' you contribute in any forum conversations on the environment and sustainability. ✨ -
I hope you find our community helpful on your journey ✨ Have a great day!
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Dear Worthy Members, Greetings of the day!!! I am Abhinav Sharma, current working as a Freelance CorporateTrainer for a decade or so and I bring on table a rich experiential learning of more than nineteen years spread across different industries and academic institutions. I am a pet lover and a nature enthusiast. I love meeting new people, making friends and learning on the process. Mountains and long drives drive me crazy and a cup of tea in a natural surrounding is like a turbo charger for me. I love being an empath and strongly vouch for a like minded community. Am always there to help when it comes to training & development and over coming obstacles. Do count on me as a friendly neighborhood coach!!! Stay Blessed and Stay Connected ???
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At the dawn of the third decade of the 21st century, the existence of humankind has become highly perilous. We are cutting down our forests, exhausting our fresh water aquifers, and losing our vital top soils. We are stripping the life from our oceans and replacing it with hundreds of millions of tons of plastic waste. We are flooding our environment with toxic industrial chemicals. Our pollution is driving climate change that causes heat waves, droughts, and wild fires that shred the fabric of life on the continents. And we are bringing new generations into the world, millions who require access to the resources of a dignified existence. The scope and breadth of the threats to life are increasing day after day. This is not a sustainable mode of development.Goodreads, alexis karpouzos official siteThe root cause of our ills stems from a mistaken way of thinking. What exactly does this mean? it means that we have been thinking of ourselves mainly as material beings, while denying our spiritual nature. Because we think that we exist as material beings and nothing more, we place first importance on protecting our bodies from harm and prolonging our material existence. Our spiritual nature, if considered at all, is treated as a secondary aspect of our physical being—something not to be taken seriously. To us, the only things that matter are the phenomena that appear in the material world—things that can be seen, or heard, or touched, or measured, but we know that our senses deceive us, the senses are a construction of the brain. What we consider a real world is an illusion. The domination of the positivist and materialist thought leads to irrationality and destruction.IMDB, alexis karpouzos official siteYet where has this approach led us? Has it brought us a sense of happiness and fulfillment? Rather than living each day in a spirit of joyful cooperation, with our hearts filled with bright hope and happy anticipation, we have isolated ourselves from others and viewed them as rivals or enemies. Our thoughts are flooded with suspicion, fear and greed, leading to an endless cycle of war, poverty, starvation, and environmental destruction. Unless we wake up soon and pay attention to our spiritual nature, there will be no future for humanity on Earth.Words are life. Words are light. Words are power. Words are energy. Words are truth. Words can enliven and words can also kill. Words can give hope, or plunge us into despair. People use words to build peace, and use words to make war. Words can create walls between cultures, religions, and nations. And words can also build bridges. The existence of an individual, a family, a community, a country, and our planet is being led to good or to evil through the power of the words we speak. The words we speak are responsible for everything that happens in this world. We, therefore, must be responsible for the words we speak. On behalf of future generations, I hope that each of us will do all we can to speak only bright, light-filled words, so that one day, our descendants will be born into a world filled with light. There is no time to lose. Starting at this very moment, I hope all of us will take a close look at the words we have been using and make constant efforts to fill them with brightness.Amazon, alexis karpouzos official site No one is going to change our lives for us. No one is going to change the world for us. It is time for each of us to recognize the prodigious, creative power that is unleashed by each word we speak, and to consciously speak only words filled with gratitude, encouragement, and good intention. From this moment forward, let us choose words that resonate with love and forgiveness for ourselves and others. We can certainly do it if we take just one step forward. One step at a time, one word at a time, we can uproot the germs of tragedy and of isolation in our consciousness and convert them into waves of happiness and conciliation. For the sake of ourselves, for the sake of Mother Earth, and for the sake of future generations, let us use words that contribute to the positive evolution of humankind on Earth. alexis karpouzos, visual art1.mp4 alexis karpouzos_ The world in the flames.mp4
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Hello and welcome to happiness! We're glad you found us and hope our community can be helpful on your journey. Please feel free to start a new topic in the forum if you want to discuss any of your newly discovered interests :)
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Introduction
Lizzie replied to bielawskial 's topic in Introduction Circle - A warm welcome to happiness!
Hi Anna, welcome to happiness ? It sounds like MBSR could be a great tool for the students! I hope you find our community useful on any parts of your journey ? Have a lovely day!- 1 reply
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I'm so sorry to hear about you losing your father, grief is something so difficult to go through and I'm sending you lots of strength and positive energy. I hope you can find support in our community, and perhaps you would find our Grief MOOC course in the happiness Academy helpful too. ?
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Embracing our oneness with nature be key to our survival. The unity is the invisible Intelligence and is embedded in the rhythms and relationships that observed in nature, we are the work of this cosmic intelligence. What is good for the whole system? On Earth, to the web of life on the planet, what is good for the whole system is good for us all. However, what may be good for a few of us in the short term is not necessarily good for the whole system. Because a few can distort the dynamic, the structure of the whole, by biasing it to work for their immediate benefit, for greed, selfishness and vanity. So, let’s look at the whole system, let us act as if we are part of it—because we are. We are part of nature, and nature is part of the universe. This recognition is probably the deepest guidance we can have. AMAZON, alexis karpouzos official site The open Oneness doesn’t mean that we lose our individuality. The open Oneness means that we are joined together, each of us bringing something to the whole system, we are the whole system, we are all the others. This is what we need to understand; that we can, we must be, one with nature, without losing our individuality. We are not separate mechanical elements outside of nature. Every individual is a complex system running on the same information that orients all of nature. By following the intelligence implicit in the laws of nature we are not losing anything. We are gaining everything, because the secret of our health and wellbeing is to be one within ourselves, and to be one with others. Every event, every action impacts the whole system. If we know that, then we can freely choose to act as part of the whole. Every living system is alive and healthy when all its elements, every one of the trillions and trillions of cells, are working together with and for the whole system. If in the human body there is a group of cells that is out of step, moving on its own, if it just grows and multiplies on its own we have the condition of disease. Every disease is basically a condition where some parts of the body do not cooperate with, are not fully aligned with, the whole. All of us, all of the web of life on Earth, on Universe, must come together to form the symphony of oneness. That is the purpose of our existence. It is our contribution to the world. When we use our mind, our spirit, our consciousness the natural way, the way they were born to be used, we will find our way to oneness in our family and community, on Earth, and in the universe. Alexis karpouzos alexis karpouzos, iam the universe (1).ogg
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Welcome to happiness ✨ I hope you will enjoy our community ?
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Yea I am new here! I am excited to join this community. ? Hey everyone!
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Week 6 informal practice: Communication Calendar
Candy replied to Tine 's topic in The MBSR Course Forum
And we're very grateful to you and your beautiful contributions within the community. Thank you for your kind words and support. It means the world to us. -
Hello everyone. My name is Navy and I just joined this community. I am a seeker of light, and all things spirituality. If anyone likes a good read, I would check out, “The Power of Now,” by Eckhart Tolle. its important to be present, and I can’t stress that enough. We are so stuck in our heads about the past and future. But all we have is now. If we aren’t creating the lives we keep envisioning for ourselves now, the future will always be just these thoughts without the actions of putting what we want into action now. Time is an illusion, and we are more powerful then this illusion. we must be mindful of our thoughts and actions. Enjoy the little things in the now. Look at what is around you. Focus on your senses, be full of gratitude. if anyone is interested in having deep conversations, wants someone to talk too, whether it’s just to vent, or for advice, or just to explore ideas back and forth, I am here for you all. stay mindful. Focus on your life path. Find yourself. You are not alone. We can do this together. Stay present, and always be the best version of yourself, for you should want to be the change you want to see in the world. You have a purpose. you are more than your thoughts. Let’s embrace our inner soul and manifest the life we desire. all love, Navy☮️
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This year has definitely given me perspective on pretty much everything, which I'm tying to see as a silver lining. I think I've learned to appreciate and value things I have been taking for granted previously, and also realised what is actually important for me and my happiness. There has been many not so great moments, and I have had to go through emotions and feelings that I've been fortunate not to have had before. I think it's also made me realise I'm strong and resilient! There have been a lot of great initiatives to bring people together which I think it's such a lovely sign of how so many of us are kind and caring. I've joined live workouts on Instagram for example, and that little community has been so supportive and positive it sometimes really made my day. it's definitely been a huge example of how life throws us curve balls when we think we're in control, and that, as @Tine said, what matters most is us being kind to one another. ?
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Hey everyone!
Lizzie replied to Joy-3993 's topic in Introduction Circle - A warm welcome to happiness!
Hello and welcome to happiness ? I hope you find the forum and our community to lift your spirits - we're glad you found us! Have a great week ✨ -
Hi to everyone!
Nika replied to Aura137Angel 's topic in Introduction Circle - A warm welcome to happiness!
A very warm welcome to both of you Yakira & RebLinn! Enjoy the happiness community and happiness itself -
Hello! Hallo! Привет!
Lizzie replied to joesvetz 's topic in Introduction Circle - A warm welcome to happiness!
Hello, and welcome to happiness! ✨ We're glad you found us and hope you'll find our community helpful on your journey. Sounds like you're already on a good path in finding yourself, who you want to be, and what makes you happy, and I'm sure others will find your introduction inspiring ? -
New Here Today
Lizzie replied to JDMSP69 's topic in Introduction Circle - A warm welcome to happiness!
Hi Joe! Welcome to happiness ✨ Please have a look at both the Interest pages and the Magazine where we have lots of content that might fit your interests ? Thank you for sharing about yourself and I hope you'll find our community to be a safe place to connect with likeminded people and both learn and share from experiences. Have a lovely day you too!- 1 reply
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Greetings from Africa
Candy replied to awesomengoni 's topic in Introduction Circle - A warm welcome to happiness!
Hello, fellow African! Thank you for joining our little community! -
Hi there! Great to meet you all!
Lizzie replied to Hollie75 's topic in Introduction Circle - A warm welcome to happiness!
Welcome to happiness Hollie! ✨ We're glad you found us and hope you'll find our community helpful on your journey ? -
I'm not really great at introductions and interpreting myself postively, I'm a young lost soul with severe anxiety and bipolar issues. I'm am seeking to find and provide happiness for myself and the world. I feel I have so much to show and give but I just need help tapping into happiness. Thanks for being such a great community.
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Hi this place seems like home
Lizzie replied to Roadtohappiness 's topic in Introduction Circle - A warm welcome to happiness!
Welcome to happiness, and thank you for your kind words ? I hope you find our community helpful, and please feel free to the Forum to start new conversations if you have any questions or need support from others ✨ You will also find a lot of great resources in the Magazine, there's one article about 11 steps to finding happiness, for example, so make sure you check it out! Have a lovely week! ☀️ -
This is me
Lizzie replied to tomthelifecoach 's topic in Introduction Circle - A warm welcome to happiness!
Welcome to happiness Tom, and thank you for sharing a bit about yourself and your goals ✨ We look forward to seeing you around the forum, we're a small but welcoming community and a space to ask for advice, share experiences, and help each other out. ? -
This a question I got asked, and I'd like to open it up to the whole community to gather more ideas. What's you take on this? My idea would be that there is a subtle yet profound difference. You know - inside your head. When you see your thoughts, there's a distance between the one who sees and what is seen. To me, it emphasizes the experience that you are not your thoughts when seeing them. Here's the take of the 12-year-old Emma I asked about it over breakfast: Thoughts you know are logic, like knowing an answer to a math problem. Thoughts you see are fantasy and memories.