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Live Stronger, Happier: Get your Feet wet

Explore the power of mindfulness in stress reduction and increasing happiness. Learn how to develop resilience and choose love over fear. Discover the brain's two modes and the impact of attention and thoughts on our well-being.

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Live Stronger, Happier: Get your Feet wet

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  1. March 4, 2016 Live Stronger, Happier:Get your Feet wet Ronelle Langley, Ph.D.

  2. Objectives • Focus on two modes of the brain in our quest for mindfulness. • Learn that we have choices in terms of: What we pay attention to > Our thinking > Our feelings > Our reactions in our body. • Understand how mindfulness in these choices can affect stress and happiness. • Learn how resilience can help us develop inner strength.

  3. Our Brain’s Two Modes

  4. How Attention Black Hole Develops Imagination Thought Suppression Rumination

  5. Where Do We Focus Our Mind? B. Present in the Moment C. Fear of the Future A. Pain of the Past

  6. Two Primary Emotions “There are only two emotions: love and fear. All positive emotions come from love, all negative emotions from fear. From love flows happiness, contentment, peace, and joy. From fear comes anger, hate, anxiety and guilt. It's true that there are only two primary emotions, love and fear. But it's more accurate to say that there is only love or fear, for we cannot feel these two emotions together, at exactly the same time. They're opposites. If we're in fear, we are not in a place of love. When we're in a place of love, we cannot be in a place of fear.” ― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Swiss-American Psychiatrist Author On Death and Dying

  7. Two Choices: Love or Fear • Paying attention • Thinking • Feelings • Reactions in body

  8. Two Fundamental, Opposing Hormonal Responses: Fear or Love

  9. Paul Zak’s Top 10 Ways to Boost Oxytocin • #10: Listen with your eyes • #9: Give a gift • #8: Share a meal • #7: Meditate • #6: Soak in hot tub • #5: Use social media • #4: Ride a roller coaster/jump out of plane • #3: Pet a dog • #2: Use the ‘L’ word (Love) • #1: Share 8 hugs a day

  10. Contribution from Team Brazil on the Power of Hugs Let's go down cause I need to work.Yes, me too.See you later?Of course.

  11. What is Resilience? Resilience

  12. Four Domains of Resilience

  13. DQ1: Brain’s Focused and Default Modes • What do you enjoy doing when you are in the focused mode? What feelings do you experience when your mind is in focused mode? • What % of a day is our mind wandering in default mode? What feelings do we experience when we are in default mode? • Where would you choose to spend most of your waking time: focused or default mode?

  14. DQ2: Cortisol or Oxytocin • Do you prefer your body to experience more cortisol or oxytocin responses? • Which of Body, Mind or Spiritual teachings do you find most helpful in making your choice between Fear or Love as a fundamental response?

  15. DQ3: Top 10 Activities • As a coaching circle, put your own list of Top 10 activities together that will help to increase your oxytocin levels. • Post that on Facebook in our closed group: Global Community Wellness.

  16. DQ4: Resilience • Discuss ideas how we can increase our: • Physical resilience • Cognitive resilience • Emotional resilience • Spiritual resilience • Share with others about a person whose resilience is inspiring to you.

  17. Resources • Articles: • Top 10 ways to Boost Good Feelings • Happiness Chemicals • Books: • The Mayo Clinic Handbook for Happiness: A 4-Step Plan for Resilient Living (Sood, 2015) (pp. 9 – 40) • The Moral Molecule (Zak, 2013) • Videos: • Paul Zak • How to Make Stress Your Friend • Dogs and Oxytocin • Research: • http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11682-015-9411-7#/page-1 • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006322314007951 • https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/oxytocin-in-humans/

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