What you eat is a prayer; your conversations are prayers; how you spend your money is a prayer; your work is a prayer; self-care is your prayer; your driving is a prayer; your thoughts are prayer — in short, your life is your prayer. Stopping to question our negative thoughts, and thereby stopping them in their tracks, will lead you to your inner self. When I first selected the name of this blog as PDA Parenting (and I wasn’t sure what was the most apt title to pen) I only ever considered that I was using the technique for my eldest demand avoidant child. I mean, if people who are paraplegic can be just as happy as those who won the lottery than what excuse do I have not to be happy? This study by de Neve et al (2012) found that genetics accounted for only about 30% of the participants’ happiness.

Well, watch Dan Gilberts TED talk for some really fascinating studies that show this ‘synthetic happiness’ is a real thing. Putting my thoughts and ideas out into the world brought up so much self-doubt — that I was almost frozen in fear. I'd also check out Haley McGee on Instagram because there's a lot of stuff about like people pleasing here. I really think it's at least worth trying the free sample on Kindle to see if you like her particular style.I love everything about learning: books, binders, papers, folders, chalkboard, white boards, classrooms, conference rooms. Unfortunately, people are often unaware of other persons life events, absorbed as we are in “our story”. Since watt is just joules per second, this is roughly equal to the energy given off by a 100 Watt light bulb. Choose to move into love and compassion for yourself and others and gratitude for what you are and discover your happiness in this present moment.

Today, choose to be aware of what you are attaching your happiness to, and consciously limit the thoughts about what you believe you need externally to be happy. By increasing the intensity, the duration and the felt sense of happiness in your body each time you are in a positive experience, you are essentially creating new neural circuits to build in your brain.

By focusing on these internal factors, we can take steps to enhance a positive mindset and find happiness within ourselves. The feeling of happiness is the result of being present with ourselves, with Spirit, with others and with nature. You cannot fix them and that's kind of part of this super romantic thing like that comes with that ride or die bullshit that like you can fix somebody and you can— it's a nice feeling because you feel in control. It's simple practices, really, but practices that are all deeply grounded in habits developed over hundreds of years.

Split into sections on equanimity, wise effort (and speech), mindfulness, and concentration it uses anecdotes and examples in every day life to illustrate how to put this philosophy of compassion into practice. Her primary focus is on questions relating to mental health, stress-management, self-development and well-being. I need them to understand that it’s more than likely they are all neurodivergent and that they are not copying their older sister because she’s autistic.You can become their internal unconditional loving support, and they're just gonna look at you and appreciate you for all that you are another and it feels empowering.