Meditation *Tibetan monks and lay practitioners who have practiced - - PDF document

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Pleasurable Meaningful Engaging

What Behaviours Improve Happiness?

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Nature Nurture

Behavior

“Human agency is operating in the context of three-way mutual influence

Albert Bandura (1997)

‘triadic reciprocal causation’ ”

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a view called

the external environment internal personal factors

Happiness

Ha Happines ppiness is is a a choice hoice, not a condition.

You need to make a deliberate choice to be happy in spite of challenges and

• difficulties. Karl Pillemer. “30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest

Americans”.

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If you want a quality, act as though you already have it. William James (1884)

Meditation Taming Tech Mind & Body Gratitude Acts of Kindness What behaviors improve your happiness?

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Meditation

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Meditation

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Expert meditation* increased brain activation linked to empathy

*Tibetan monks and lay practitioners who have practiced meditation for a minimum of 10,000 hours

You Can Change Your Brain!

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Mind

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Body

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Taming Tech

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• Dr. Sandra Bond Chapman

Founder and Chief Director, Center for BrainHealth, The University of Texas at Dallas

The brain was not built to Multitask!

5 texts

to send to your partner every day

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Thank hank You

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Thanks for picking me up from work last night. I know you were tired. Thanks for being so accommodating when my friends came over the weekend. Thanks for that chocolate cake you made me for my birthday.

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Shar haring ing Joy

I had the best time hiking in the woods with my friends. The new customer signed the contract – so excited! I really enjoyed spending time with my parents today.

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Compliment

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I love your enthusiasm for life! You’re great at getting our kids

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the morning. You’ve got the best smile.

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to send to your partner every day Fond

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emory

I was thinking about that time we went to Paris for dinner after the reunion. Wasn’t that a fun night? We should do that again soon. I had so much fun with you at last year’s New Year’s 5K. Let’s do that again.

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Cur urious ious Ques Question ion

Where would like to go for vacation this fall? If you had to choose one spot that you love the most in this city, what would it be? What movie would you want to see that’s

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FOR EMBAs Only Do Not Shar FOR EMBAs Only Do Not Share with MBAs e with MBAs

One e One extr xtra te a text you should send to your par xt you should send to your partner as needed (Dah) tner as needed (Dah) Sex$ng

It’s too bad you’re not here right now. I had such a good dream about you last night. I thought of something I want to do with you tonight. I just got out of the shower. I love staring at your [fill in the blank]. I love the way you make me feel. I’ve never felt as aHracted to anyone else as I am to you. I can’t control myself when I’m near you. The anJcipaJon is killing me. What are you wearing right now? Tell me more. I love when you talk like that. Your messages have me so distracted.

Sex$ng Guidelines

Incorporate any inside jokes or personal memories that the two of you share. Be discrete, being less explicit can actually be more sJmulaJng Be playful not pornographic (the headline test) Always be suggesJve rather than revealing with photos or words

Perform anonymous acts of kindness

Find opportunities at home, work and in public to do so without attention or recognition Giver benefits the most: Strengthens you as person* Weekly commitment to do so increased subjects' happiness Study shows using a variety of kindness acts help sustain higher levels of happiness

Sonja Lyubomirsky. Positive Psychology Studies on Happiness (December 10, 2008).

*Only you know what you have done

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Mom, Thank you for being loving and a strong person. Love, Inari

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Showing Gratitude

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