Apart from brightening up a room, flowers can also brighten up your mood. A floral fixture may reduce feelings of pain and anxiety while boosting positive emotions. One study also shows that looking at flowers first thing in the morning leads to increased happiness and energy and decreased anxiety. Not only that, but being surrounded by blooms can also positively affect your 9-to-5—it’s been shown to boost creativity and make workspaces feel more pleasant.
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🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ Know Your Boundaries
Know Your Boundaries & Keep Them
Know your boundaries and stick to them. Having boundaries will work to keep you emotionally safe and happy.
A mentor passed along this guide to me in defining my boundaries. My mentor suggested I make a list under two headings: Heading 1: I Am This. Heading 2. I Am Not This. Work at it and you’ll instinctively know what belongs in each column.
🤗Feel Good Hack ~ Reclaim Your Space
Reclaim a bit of personal time and space each day. A small block of time away from the pressures, chaos, and responsibilities of the day will recharge you. Don’t feel guilty about taking care of yourself!
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ Your Strengths Are Amazing
Identify and Use Your strengths
We all have different strengths and weaknesses but finding out what you are really good at and using those talents can increase wellbeing. Using your strengths to help others or contribute to the community creates a sense of meaning and purpose.
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ Let It Go
The past is the past. It’s gone. Detaching from mistakes, worries, and regrets may lead to more lighthearted times. Letting go of resentment and hurt feelings is a decision to stop suffering. Choose to be happy.
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ You Are Stronger than you Realize
Summon the strength you have inside. Learn to access and direct your strengths to the highest good for all concerned. Believe that your strength and intelligence can help you deal with anything. Remember that you have survived worse.
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ Life is on Your Side
Be friends with life. Remember that the world is not out to get you and it does not punish you. You do that to yourself. Learning to focus on other opportunities or in another direction can give you some perspective.
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ Grateful, Grateful, Grateful
Offer Gratitude
Whatever you have in life and wherever you are, you can find some reason to be grateful. Today, you may be anxious, but you showed up, for instance. Acknowledging your own good fortune—no matter how seemingly slight or minimal at the moment—can actually enhance your overall well-being.
Researchers have found that being truly grateful for what you have can yield important physical benefits—we sleep better and enjoy better relationships! Researchers have also found that your level of gratitude is inversely proportion to your level of depressed feelings or sadness. The more grateful you are in life, the better the chances are that you will actually enjoy what you have!
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ Beat the Blues
When You’re Feeling Lonely, Do This …
Did you know that simply imagining that you are being smiled at by someone you love is just as powerfully healing as having that person present?
Close your eyes for a moment. Now, imagine being with someone you love and who cares about you and who isn’t here with you today. Now, imagine this person offering you a warm smile. Once you’ve locked that image in place, take a deep breath and slowly open your eyes. Did you find you were smiling just thinking about that special person’s smile? Did you feel warmth around their heart, like a hug, as you imagined that person? Yep, it works almost every time!
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ You Can Do It ~ Smile
Make Cheerfulness Your Default Demeanor
There are plenty of old songs that encourage us to “put on a happy face” or “smile when your heart is breaking,” or “don’t worry, be happy.” Many of us may feel a little confused about why we are always encouraging people to “lie” to themselves.
Actually, there is a Zen koan or saying that states simply, “Practice smiling while peeling carrots.” My yoga instructor always encourages us to smile during the most difficult poses. She asks the question, “Are you smiling because you are happy or are you happy because you are smiling?”
