40 Tips for a Happier Life
05/03/11 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in:
Happiness
Since the end of the 90s a new branch
of the science, also known as Positive Psychology has been dealing
with the essentials for happiness. In order to help you find out
which happiness potentials are maybe lying idle with you, I have
summarized the 40 most important insights on the subject
“happiness” in an abbreviated format in the following “checklist”.
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Intuition – Knowledge on a Gut-Level
03/13/09 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in:
Personality
Eight of our sixteen personality types in the third
dimension prefer intuition to sensing: All Thinkers (Analytical, Groundbreaking,
Independent and
Dynamic) and
all Idealists (Spontaneous, Engaged, Dreamy and Harmony-seeking). However, what does that actually mean
for their every day life?
Neuroscientists have known this for a long time: Our consciousness is not even close to being able to handle all the information that continuously floods it. Consequently, it focuses on the immediate and important and continuously blocks the majority of external stimuli out. Just now, as you read this, your subconscious receives all kinds of signals which your consciousness deliberately ignores because otherwise you would not be able to concentrate on the text: information about your physical posture (or were you even aware up to now which parts of your body were touching the chair and which were touching the floor? how warm or how cold your hands are right now? or if a little tension in your neck is coming on?), a number of environmental information (brightness, background noises, temperature, the presence of a colleague sitting on the neighboring table…) and countless more things. All these informational units end up in your subconscious and with incredible speed are processed, evaluated, sorted and filtered. They are usually only transferred into the foreground – i.e. your consciousness – when they become urgent (when your chair collapses under you, for instance!). Continue reading ...
Neuroscientists have known this for a long time: Our consciousness is not even close to being able to handle all the information that continuously floods it. Consequently, it focuses on the immediate and important and continuously blocks the majority of external stimuli out. Just now, as you read this, your subconscious receives all kinds of signals which your consciousness deliberately ignores because otherwise you would not be able to concentrate on the text: information about your physical posture (or were you even aware up to now which parts of your body were touching the chair and which were touching the floor? how warm or how cold your hands are right now? or if a little tension in your neck is coming on?), a number of environmental information (brightness, background noises, temperature, the presence of a colleague sitting on the neighboring table…) and countless more things. All these informational units end up in your subconscious and with incredible speed are processed, evaluated, sorted and filtered. They are usually only transferred into the foreground – i.e. your consciousness – when they become urgent (when your chair collapses under you, for instance!). Continue reading ...