Straighten Up
You’ve likely heard that certain power stances—standing like Super Woman, for example—instantly boost your self-confidence, making you look mighty when you feel puny. It turns out, you don’t even need to leave your chair to strike that pose: Simply sitting up straight and lifting your chest can make you feel more confident than slouching over, science says.
Stress and Anxiety
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ Make Sleep a Priority
When we sleep, our brains recharge, ensuring we wake up alert and clear-headed. Without enough rest, our energy, attention and memory are reduced and stress hormones go through the roof. Thus, happy people make sleep a priority.
🍎 Health Hack ~ Don’t Let Emails Rule You
Urgent” Emails
E-mails cause more stress for women than men because women feel greater pressure to respond immediately. So try turning off your e-mail alerts, and check your inbox when the timing is right for you.
Stress happens—chalk it up to the holidays, work, or gloomy weather persisting. Next time you’re feeling stressed, keep tension in check by exercising, catching up with a friend, or devoting a few minutes to your favorite hobby.
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🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ LOL and Laugh a Lot
Laugh!
What makes you laugh? Do it! Sometimes watching a comedy or even a YouTube clip can take you out of you slump. So can recalling a funny experience in your life and re-telling it to the friend or spouse you shared it with. Laughter keeps things light and real.
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ It’s Okay to ‘Sweat It’
Sweat it Out: When we exercise, our bodies release chemicals called endorphins. These endorphins interact with the receptors in the brain and trigger a positive feeling in the body known as a “runner’s high.” This natural high has a profound effect on mental health, relieves stress and improves memory.
🍎 Health Hack ~ Thanksgiving Tips
- The holiday season is a time for celebration. With busy schedules and so many extra temptations, this is a good time to strive for weight maintenance instead of weight loss.
- Focus on Family and Friends
- Thanksgiving is not just about the delicious bounty of food. It’s a time to celebrate relationships with family and friends. The main event should be family and friends socializing, spending quality time together, not just what is on the buffet.
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ Start The Day Right
Every day is a clean slate. Once it gets going, though, it can get away from you, and the next thing you know, it’s time for bed, and you didn’t focus on what you planned to. Avoid this by starting every day writing down one thing you’re grateful for. Write down and reflect on what’s good. It’s simple, but it starts off your day on the right foot before you jump back into the daily grind.
🍎 Health Hack ~ Take a Nice, Big Yawn – It’s Good for You
Yawning
Yawning isn’t just a not-so-subtle signal to your friend that their story is boring you. This natural bodily inclination actually helps to regulate the temperature of your brain, according to the experts at the Smithsonian Institute.
“When we stretch our jaws, we increase the rate of blood flow to the skull,” they note. “And as we inhale at the same time, the air changes the temperature of that blood flow, bringing cooler blood to the brain.” And given how much work the brain does each and every day, this is a very important—and protective—function.
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ Ignite the Dopamine
Jump Start Your Dopamine With Exercise
Dopamine, a chemical that plays a role in happiness, is a neurotransmitter in the brain that’s necessary for feelings of pleasure and happiness.
Many studies suggest that as we age, we’re constantly losing our stores of dopamine, which is why we need to constantly seek out experiences that release dopamine.
The best way to increase your brain’s dopamine production? Exercise. So run, lift, jump, play — and get happy.
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ You Really Are Strong
Remember How Far You’ve Come
While most advice you hear says that if you want to be happy you need to forget about the negative things in the past, researchers at the University of California, Davis found the opposite to be true. When you take time to remember the challenges you’ve overcome, it can heighten your feelings of gratitude in the present. The key is to focus on being grateful for the progress you’ve made instead of resenting the ways difficult times have held you back.
