Help me, help yourself

It is scientifically proven to help others produce emotional wellbeing and improves our physical and mental health. Consider a Buddhist meditation mode, based on compassion and helping others to greatly improve our mood and our mind works.

A study conducted by epidemiologist James House, University of Michigan about 2700 social volunteers, concluded with surprising result that people who perform altruistic activities are healthier and live longer than the rest. Other several scientific studies determine that develop voluntary work reduces stress, chronic pain and insomnia.

In the factory: the quote of the day (23-jan)

"The greater the feeling of inferiority experienced by a person more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation"

Alfred Adler

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Control your emotions

All humans feel emotions, this is normal, sometimes beneficial and others detrimental to the achievement of our goals. Let's talk about the importance of emotional intelligence.

Many people of great intellect have accomplished little or nothing in life, while other people of half intellect have gone much further, what is the reason?

In the factory: the quote of the day (16-jan)

"You are like the diamond: a jewel, precious and unique. And as such, only a true expert can evaluate you. Why go through life pretending that anyone discover your true value?"

Jorge Bucay

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In the factory: the quote of the day (10-jan)

"We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We're going to put words on ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day"

Edith Lovejoy Pierce

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Happy 2013!

Another year ends and with this end most of the people we stop and think for a moment at least, to take stock of what happened in the ... after realizing, between sorrow and melancholy, how quickly it has passed, many of us are not fully satisfied with the course of our lives and we see that the actions taken during the last 365 days have not been entirely successful or some of the cases we have done absolutely nothing to take us to the life we ​​want ... that is when the greatest number of people think that that's life, is what I happen to live, certainly next year 2013 brings me better things, to see if it changes my luck ...

In the factory: the phrase of the day (28-dec)

"Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. Cherish peace and generosity and have mercy is to understand the true meaning of Christmas"

Calvin Coolidge

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Christmas is love

Now we are engaged again at Christmas time, which usually means holidays for children, also for some of us, decorations and Christmas atmosphere, family reunions with intense and succulent bingeing, gifts and surprises from Santa Claus and Magi ... But what is the true meaning of Christmas?

But the truth is that Christmas in "advanced" countries, creators and cultivators of the consumer society, is increasingly distorted, losing its true meaning, hidden behind a cloud of opportunistic consumerism that all he seeks is increasing more and more our spending, or rather, more things to sell us that in most cases we do not need, making us believe that the more you give away and more expensive, more we love our family and friends.

Self-esteem: Top of beauty

After speaking, at the last entry, of the unconditional acceptance of our lives and of ourselves, time to talk about self-esteem and some tricks to make it grow.

This post is based on the content of the play "The six pillars of self esteem" by psychologist Nathaniel Branden who has studied this topic in depth.

In the factory: the phrase of the day (05-dec)

"Men always forget that human happiness is a disposition of mind, not a condition of the circumstances"

John Locke

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Without conditions

Our happiness depends largely on the acceptance of which we speak in a past post, we will now develop a little more this topic, as there are two ways to accept: conditionally or unconditionally. Let's see.

According to Gandhi the way to pacify the other begins in learn to self pacified. Besides him, there are many philosophies who argue that our inner peace depends to a great way, of knowing unconditionally accept ourselves and people around us. Find we the problem that affects us the majority.

In the factory: the phrase of the day (25-nov)

"Not is richer, who has more, but who needs the least"

Augustine of Hippo

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Do you really need it?

Often people have a value scale​​ somewhat distorted about what we think we need in our lives in order to be fully happy. Let's talk about it.

    In the countries of the so-called "first world" where reigns the voracious consumer society of capitalist character, have taught and instilled by the media and from very young, neurotically to need things, and more material things, many of which we use once before corner them into oblivion, in other cases we can not even use them ever, others acquire just a whim, "buy to feel good." In the spiritual and emotional level also tend to need certain situations or events, also imposed by the environment in which we live, not to be happy, but rather to at least be comforted, just as a baby needs his pacifier. Is this healthy?

In the factory: the phrase of the day (15-nov)

"Man becomes what he thinks of himself. If I keep telling myself I can not do a certain thing, it is very likely to end up turning me into a incapable to do it. By contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, surely I will acquire the ability to do it even if I could not do it in the beginning"

Mahatma Gandhi

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Courage! Yes, it's possible!

From Happiness Factory I defend a completely happy life is possible, to change our lives and what we feel is within reach of everyone. Let's review the tools available to us to change our world.

    Love is a feeling so powerful and beneficial than for me is not the result of being happy, but rather an essential element in order to become one. Although one is not happy, you can feel real love for yourself, people in his life or certain elements of the world. Feeling love, and make it grow even more, let help us in creating our happiness: Love, love and ......Love!, and Do you know about love? are the post's than guide you.

In the factory: the phrase of the day (31-oct)

"Perhaps the suffering and love have a capacity of redemption that men have forgotten or at least neglected"

Martin Luther King

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Transforms suffering in peace & love

Suffering and illness, unfortunately, exist in this material life, but as we saw in the last post about the acceptance, there is no obstacle that can destroy our happiness and love that dwell within. Let's look more practically how to transform suffering.

This practice will greatly help in times of diseases that cause great suffering. We must start from the certainty that our being is not only material, in this life is composed of soul and body, but we must admit that our real existence is outside of  psychological time created by our material mind, we are eternal as is the energy and the universe itself. This life is only one stage in our lives, know it.

In the factory: the phrase of the day (02-oct)

"Concentrate is to keep the mind fixed on a form or object for a long time. To get rid of the oscillations of the mind and some other obstacles that are in the way, should be practiced concentration on one thing"

Swami Sivananda

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Happiness Exercises: Concentrate your alertness

Those who ordinarily follow the blog know very well that what is promoted here is enjoy a life full of love and happiness, and it is therefore very important to have a healthy mind and educated. The simple practice of which we speak then help us, for sure.

Our mind is a very powerful tool, but like all great tool if not used properly, can harm us. Since this blog does not just want to help promote happiness and love among all mortals, but also learn to better understand and shape our mind, so necessary to our life here.

In the factory: the phrase of the day (26-Sep)

"In a higher world could be otherwise, but here below to live is to change and to be perfect is to have changed often"

John H. Newman

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