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By Chantal BeaupreRecently published1 topic

Happiness - What You Think of Me Is None of My Business

The title above is a paraphrase of the Terry Cole-Whittaker best-selling book about how most of us have a strong tendency to believe that we are not valuable as human beings when others reject us. However, let us remember that when we experience the rejection and the contempt of others, it is not because we are bad persons, but simply because we do not suit the preferences and tastes of those others.

Primary topic: Happiness

5,196 views

By Chantal BeaupreRecently published1 topic

Happiness - Is There a Difference Between Thoughts and Beliefs?

Your happiness and emotional wellness mainly depend on the fact that you know, understand, and accept the true cause of your emotions -- whether positive or negative, good or bad. As a matter of fact, I insist heavily on this point because it is the cornerstone of the entire system by which you can learn to modify your own emotions and thus raise your level of happiness and improve the quality of your life.

Primary topic: Happiness

4,912 views

By Chantal BeaupreRecently published1 topic

Book Review - The Power, by Rhonda Byrne

The Power was released on August 17, 2010. Not only have I jumped on the first occasion to grab my very own copy of the book, but it really didn't take long before I finished reading it -- less than 3 workdays! Needless to say I was very excited about Rhonda Byrne's major new book being released to the world!

Primary topic: Happiness

4,362 views

By Chantal BeaupreRecently published1 topic

Happiness - On the Road to Unconditional Self-Acceptance

We can pay ourselves large doses of anxiety if we expect to suffer a failure-especially if we believe that this failure will transform ourselves into a miserable person only worthy of both the sco and derision of others, not to forget our own contempt. While we can always learn to muck about the disrepute of others, isn't there a more acute emotional pain than the one of losing the value and the dignity we have in our own eyes?

Primary topic: Happiness

4,183 views

By Chantal BeaupreRecently published1 topic

Happiness - Love and Affection: Replaceable or Irreplaceable Need?

In my previous article titled, "Happiness - Needs That Make You Feel Anxious Now Defined," we have come to the conclusion that our needs-which are all relative-divide themselves into two categories: replaceable needs and irreplaceable needs. With this thesis in mind, we then asked ourselves the following questions: - Do we absolutely need the uninterrupted, permanent, and exclusive love, approval, and acceptance of anyone to be happy?

Primary topic: Happiness

3,497 views

By Chantal BeaupreRecently published1 topic

Anger Can Lead to Procrastination - Part 1

Among the emotions that can lead us to procrastinate, you will most probably be surprised to see me include hostility or anger. There are basically two reasons why I do this.

Primary topic: Happiness

3,226 views

By Chantal BeaupreRecently published1 topic

Happiness - Is the Affection You Receive Worth the Price You Pay For It?

In my previous article titled, "Happiness - Love and Affection: Replaceable or Irreplaceable Need?," we have seen that we do not have the irreplaceable need for the uninterrupted, permanent, and exclusive love, approval, and acceptance of anyone-and not even some degree of these elements-to live happily on this earth. However, that doesn't mean that we do not attach a more or less considerable importance to this very same love, approval, and acceptance.

Primary topic: Happiness

2,713 views

By Chantal BeaupreRecently published1 topic

What Is the Number One Cause to Unhappiness and Misery?

While I know this is somewhat painful, I invite you anyway to take a few moments to look at the world and the unhappiness and misery that overwhelm it, that overwhelm us all. What do you know notice? Where do all this unhappiness and misery come from? Do you know the number one cause?

Primary topic: Happiness

2,569 views

By Chantal BeaupreRecently published1 topic

Happiness - Anxiety and Your Dire Need to Be Loved, Approved, and Accepted

It is possible for us to feel anxious before two sets of items that we identify as dangerous or inconvenient: Physical dangers and non physical dangers. Let’s explore these two sets of items a little bit further. - Physical dangers: Those dangers or inconveniences that threaten our physical integrity, our survival, or our property (injuries, illnesses, assaults, robberies). - Non physical dangers: Those dangers or inconveniences that threaten our psychological well-being.

Primary topic: Happiness

2,513 views

By Chantal BeaupreRecently published1 topic

Happiness - Can You Really Change Yourself?

When it comes to happiness, not only can you really change yourself, but you can also considerably improve the quality of your life! You can deeply, intensively, and "elegantly" change your disturbances and your disturbability. You can substantially raise your level of happiness-absolutely no doubt about it! And to top this all up: You can make yourself happy and remarkably less disturbable - that is, if you take your personal power and use it! I did it, many other individuals did it... and so can you! Does it mean that you will be able to completely change your personality?

Primary topic: Happiness

2,508 views

By Chantal BeaupreRecently published1 topic

Procrastination - It All Started Out in Our Childhood

Let's talk a little bit again about that so-called need to be loved and approved of by others which can, as we now know, not only cause us to feel important doses of anxiety, but also lead us to procrastinate. As a matter of fact, our debilitating fear of being disapproved of by some people—and thus losing their love—often leads us to procrastinate... and more so if we erroneously believe we simply cannot do without the love and approval of these people.

Primary topic: Happiness

2,345 views

By Chantal BeaupreRecently published1 topic

Happiness - The Dire Need to Be Loved: A Misguided and Dangerous Idea

Now that you've read my previous article titled, "Is the Affection You Receive Worth the Price You Pay for It?," and done your math, let's explore together the time when the misguided idea of the dire need to be loved, approved, and accepted becomes the most dangerous for us. Let's begin with the fact that when we truly need an irreplaceable element to achieve an important goal of ours, we are hardly critical of the price.

Primary topic: Happiness

2,313 views

By Chantal BeaupreRecently published1 topic

Book Review - Align, Expand and Succeed

Building a business of fulfillment, purpose, honor, and integrity, as well as financial abundance, health, and spiritual well-being has always been a top priority for me. And to help me stay inspired and keep a steadfast focus on my goal of being a conscious entrepreneur running a conscious business, I have always made sure to surround myself with plenty of books, audio programs, DVDs... well, anything to support my learning from successful and conscious entrepreneurs who have blazed the trail for others to follow.

Primary topic: Happiness

2,255 views

By Chantal BeaupreRecently published1 topic

Procrastination - Why Does Anxiety Hinder or Block Our Action?

Let’s talk about anxiety—an unenjoyable emotion that is inevitably in close connection with our self-defeating tendency to procrastinate. It is clear that anxiety, particularly when we feel it at high levels of intensity, can hinder or block our action.

Primary topic: Happiness

2,195 views

By Chantal BeaupreRecently published1 topic

Unconditional Acceptance: A Roadmap for Happiness

If you’re like me, then you most probably find that practicing unconditional acceptance is often much easier said than done. Even if we know very well that our resistance to reality only adds to our unhappiness and misery and that no difficulty or problem is ever solved by fighting "what is," unconditional acceptance often seems to be so out of our reach. And yet, there is only one way to happiness and that is to cease resisting things which are beyond the power of our will and control.

Primary topic: Happiness

2,038 views

By Chantal BeaupreRecently published1 topic

Happiness - Kill Stubborn Weeds While Leaving the Carrots Intact!

When it comes to happiness, it is clear that no one wants to control their emotions in such a way that it would make them all disappear-including the good or positive emotions. After all, what fun would there be to live a life without joy, without enthusiasm? The good news is this control can be selective, as these products that kill stubborn weeds in your kitchen garden while leaving the carrots intact. As a matter of fact, not only do carrots grow best when they are not cluttered by weeds, but so it is with human emotions.

Primary topic: Happiness

2,011 views

By Chantal BeaupreRecently published1 topic

Happiness - Where Do Our Thoughts Come From? (Part 1)

Where do our thoughts come from—particularly the ones that poison our minds and can sometimes cause us so much trouble? First and foremost, we make them. It seems that we are born without any preconceived idea in mind. We are supplied with five senses with which we perceive the outside world and, possibly, ourselves included in this world. We are also equipped with a brain with which we make interpretations about what we perceive.

Primary topic: Happiness

1,985 views

By Chantal BeaupreRecently published1 topic

Happiness - Changing Our Unhealthy Thoughts and Ideas - Simple, But Not Easy! (Part 2)

Another source of difficulty lies in the way we often go about changing our thoughts and ideas. Indeed, many of us try to accomplish this with mere sporadic and scattered efforts. What really happens here is that even if we repeat to ourselves a few times a day new healthy thoughts and ideas, we still continue—at least, much of the time—to speak the original "language of rubbish" that we have already learned so well.

Primary topic: Happiness

1,851 views

By Chantal BeaupreRecently published1 topic

Happiness - Where Do Our Thoughts Come From? (Part 2)

In the first part of this article, we have seen that not only many of our thoughts are from our own making, but that we have also learned a panoply of them through the contact of our parents and/or immediate environment. Let's continue our exploration of the origin of our thoughts and ideas. For most of us, we started out school around the age of five. And if school often teaches children knowledge that is useful, it often conveys unhealthy prejudices as well -- alas, it does! After all, teachers are also human beings reared in the same way as their students.

Primary topic: Happiness

1,850 views

By Chantal BeaupreRecently published1 topic

Happiness - Two Mistakes to Avoid in the Control of Your Anxiety

Of all the unenjoyable emotions that darken our lives, anxiety is certainly the most widespread... and perhaps even the most painful. Like all human emotions, anxiety can manifest itself at various degrees of intensity. The English language has attributed numerous names to these different degrees, which can lead us to believe that we are in front of as many distinct emotions. As a matter of fact, whether we talk about fear, panic, anguish, apprehension, terror, dread, fright, worry, concern, phobia, insecurity, or timidity, we are always refering to anxiety—with only some nuances.

Primary topic: Happiness

1,836 views

By Chantal BeaupreRecently published1 topic

Happiness - Changing our Unhealthy Thoughts and Ideas: Simple, But Not Easy! (Part 1)

When it comes to changing our unhealthy thoughts and ideas, there are several factors that—most often than not—stand in our way. And the first one is undoubtly the tenacity of the habits we have acquired in our youth. For example, we all know how difficult it is to learn to speak a new language. The habit of speaking our native language—which we have learned without too much effort given that no previous linguistic habit really interfered with our learning process—makes the learning of a new language more difficult.

Primary topic: Happiness

1,806 views

By Chantal BeaupreRecently published1 topic

Happiness - Are We Worth Something As Human Beings?

If we can make ourselves anxious about the rejection and the absence of love of various people, we can also do it about another so-called danger: That of losing our value and our dignity, to miserably find ourselves at the level of idiots, fools, imbeciles, stupids and twits, and to act in ways that confirm-in our eyes as well as in the eyes of others-our worthlessness.

Primary topic: Happiness

1,775 views

By Chantal BeaupreRecently published1 topic

Guilt and Its Ability to Lead Us to Procrastinate - Part 1

If anxiety and anger can easily lead us to procrastinate, the same thing can also be said about guilt—an unenjoyable emotion that shares many features with anxiety. Let’s explore together how guilt can lead us to put off till tomorrow what we would better do today.

Primary topic: Happiness

1,704 views

By Chantal BeaupreRecently published1 topic

Self-Affirmation Without Anger: A Simple Matter of Understanding the Laws

Do you believe that you must absolutely have recourse to anger when it comes to stand up for yourself or for what you believe is right? In other words, do you believe that self-affirmation is inseparable from anger? What if I told you that not only is it possible for you to stand up for yourself and assert your rights with calm, serenity, and unconditional acceptance of others, but that you can also do all of this without making yourself miserably angry? That it is all a simple matter of perspective, a simple matter of understanding the laws? Let me explain.

Primary topic: Happiness

1,696 views

By Chantal BeaupreRecently published1 topic

Anger Can Lead to Procrastination - Part 2

The most powerful argument to challenge the irrational thought that causes our anger is to observe the following critical facts about human beings: - They behave according to the emotions they feel;rn- Their emotions are caused by the presence in their minds of specific thoughts, ideas, and beliefs;rn- None of them can make themselves think in one way or another.

Primary topic: Happiness

1,682 views

By Chantal BeaupreRecently published1 topic

Procrastination and Our Dire Need to Be Loved

We already know that anxiety can lead us to put off till tomorrow things that we would most probably be better to accomplish without delay. We have seen as well that our anxiety-creating belief in some potential danger or inconvenience is responsible for our procrastination.

Primary topic: Happiness

1,675 views

By Chantal BeaupreRecently published1 topic

Happiness - Needs That Make You Feel Anxious Now Defined

In my previous article titled, "Happiness - Anxiety and Your Dire Need to Be Loved, Approved, and Accepted," we came to the conclusion that in order for us to spare ourselves from feeling oppressive doses of anxiety, we would better understand the various meanings of the word "need" and draw specific distinctions between these different meanings. In this particular sense, I suggest we continue the exploration of our alleged "need" to be loved, approved, and accepted by anyone in order to be happy.

Primary topic: Happiness

1,671 views

By Chantal BeaupreRecently published1 topic

Happiness: What Needs to Change So That We Feel Better, Get Better, and Stay Better?

Imagine for a moment that you're sick and you go see a doctor to explain what you are suffering from. After having listened to you carefully, the doctor says, “All right. I have interpreted your symptoms. Do you know what we are going to do? I will prescribe medication to your neighbor!” – Thanks a million, doctor. I already feel much better,” do you say.

Primary topic: Happiness

1,633 views

By Chantal BeaupreRecently published1 topic

Procrastination Is All About Emotions - Part 1

So where do our emotions come from—particularly the ones that make us act or, on the contrary, lead us to put off till tomorrow what we'd better do today? Let's start by first considering the following question series: What makes us angry? What makes us anxious? What makes us calm, serene, and peaceful? What makes us sad? What makes us joyful? In short, what is the prime cause of our emotions—both enjoyable and unenjoyable?

Primary topic: Happiness

1,625 views

By Chantal BeaupreRecently published1 topic

Procrastination Is All About Emotions - Part 3

To discover the prime cause of our emotions, all we have to do is acknowledge that when different people before a single event—for example, a movie—do not feel the same emotions, it is inevitably because they do not interpret the movie in the same way or, in other words, they do not think about the movie in like manner.

Primary topic: Happiness

1,606 views

By Chantal BeaupreRecently published1 topic

Procrastination Is All About Emotions - Part 2

Let's explore now the second reason why the prime cause of our emotions cannot be found in the events of our lives. Once an event has occurred, you will most probably admit that it never disappears. For example, if Mary loses her job, although it will be possible for her to find another one the next day, it will never be true to claim that Mary didn't lost her job.

Primary topic: Happiness

1,581 views

By Chantal BeaupreRecently published1 topic

Procrastination - More Than a Simple Act of Avoidance

First and foremost, procrastination is all about emotions. In fact, it is because we feel this or that emotion that not only do we put off till tomorrow what we can do today, but also that we can no longer decide ourselves. Similarly, it is because this or that emotion disappears and is replaced by another one that we finally stop procrastinating, reach a decision, and take action. At this point of our discussion, it is not my intention to introduce you to some technical definition of human emotions. Doing so would certainly be useless: you know very well what human emotions are.

Primary topic: Happiness

1,551 views

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