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wow had some good quick results this time. i have some postive messages about a sport i play on there, and today i played really well!!

just a quick update on this guys. after putting the positive messages into SB i was awarded MVP (most valuable player) in all but one of the games i played! quite the result huh!

another update guys - my sports season has ended now and i thought id let you know that i actually won the award for MVP in my particular teams division out of over 60+ players! im really happy and grateful and am sure the messages on SB helped me achieve this!!

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iloverainbows youre such a source for everything useful and wonderful when it comes to LOA. thankyou for the links. and thankyou everyone else for your wise words the last few posts have been awesome to take in

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sending lots of love, positive and healing vibes your mums way x

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you got this! many positive vibes coming your way for that interview!!

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i concur with ginny, rainbows im so glad youre still contributing on here!!!

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This article was posted on the Positively Positive website the other day and I thought it was awesome. Gives some really sound advice on things to help you feel happy, which of course boosts your vibration and helps things manifest so I thought you guys might find it useful too 

It looks like the author has some good books along the same lines too, ive added a couple to my amazon wish list!

http://www.positivelypositive.com/2012/09/15/instant-happy-quickie-attitude-makeovers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+positivelypositive%2Fpositive+%28Positively+Positive%29

Instant Happy: Quickie Attitude Makeovers

Karen Salmansohn | September 15, 2012 | Living
Instant Happy: Quickie Attitude Makeovers
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About two years ago, I gave birth to a baby boy. Shortly after, I found myself experiencing trouble giving birth to writing a book. I began believing in that much talked about “mommy brain.”

Thankfully, I’ve always loved design. If you know my books (like The Bounce Back Book), you know they’re filled with kinetic images and quirky fonts. Being the positive problem solver that I am, I began experimenting with other ways to express my creativity and began designing inspiring posters. I nicknamed them “Inspirational Flashcards” because their goal was to quickly remind people of important happiness-boosting thoughts and tools. Soon, I began receiving hundreds of emails from people thanking me for my “Inspirational Flashcards”—explaining how they truly were helping them battle depressed emotional states, even when it came to dealing with majorly challenging issues, like bipolar disorder or a loved one’s death.
I wondered: How was it possible for something as quick as a ten-second reading of a poster to change someone’s emotional state?

I discussed it with friends who also write psychologically oriented books. We all came to the same conclusion. My “Inspirational Flashcards” create what’s called a “pattern interrupt”—a psychological tool recommended by practitioners of neurolinguistic programming to help stop limiting beliefs. If you saw the movie Shallow Hal, then you saw a pattern interrupt in action in that elevator scene—albeit a humorously re-enacted example of a pattern interrupt.

If you haven’t seen Shallow Hal here’s a quickie synopsis: Tony Robbins and Jack get trapped in an elevator and begin to talk about dating. Tony speedily discovers that Jack’s character engages in a limited thought pattern—stubbornly only dating stunning women for shallow reasons. Tony helps Jack break his superficial thought pattern by surprising Jack with a clunk on his head and then shouting, “Devils come out!” Sure enough, instantly, a new mental window opens for Jack. He is now able to think about dating with a less shallow lens.

In real life, a pattern interrupt works like this: Let’s say an event happens which puts you in a grumpy mood. If you’re not careful, your negative thoughts about this one solo circumstance can create a downward spiral, where you quickly go from merely thinking “This one thing sucks” to “My whole day sucks” to “My whole life sucks” to “The world sucks” to “Distant galaxies suck.” Basically, without a pattern interrupt, a sad person can get grumpier, and an angry person can get crankier!
There’s a famous Albert Einstein quote:
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

Well, Albert’s philosophy is a good explanation for why a pattern interrupt can snap you out of a negative thought loop. A pattern interrupt changes your brain’s energy state.

Here’s the neuroscientific scoop: MRIs of the brain show that every time a person thinks angry thoughts or imagines worst-case scenarios, they literally send a surge of blood flowing into brain regions associated with depression and anger, thereby refueling depression and anger. Happily, MRIs have also shown that when a person starts to think happy thoughts, they can send a surge of blood flowing into brain regions associated with happiness (the left prefrontal cortex), thereby literally refueling your positivity.

Basically, a pattern interrupt works like a “thought intervention”—creating a jiggling effect upon a person’s tightly held negative beliefs and then jumpstarting a new positive pattern of thought.

Personally, I know how hard it is to find free time in today’s uber-busy, espresso-chugging, hyperactive world. So I began wondering what other “pattern interrupts” (besides inspirational posters) might also help create happier brain neurons. Below are my go-to “Instant Happy” Tools. And please share yours below as well! Love to hear from you!
MY GO-TO “INSTANT HAPPY” TOOLS:

1. Do a Shower Power Meditation

Take a shower and multi-task washing away your stress and anxiety. Concentrate on the feel of the water upon your skin. Envision the power of the shower washing away your negative thoughts! Whoosh! Envision fear, regret, and anger soaping off you and swirling down the drain.

2. Send the Universe Some “Muah!”

Gratitude is often the antidote to depression. And that’s a researched fact. A study done by the University of California showed that when people took time each day to think about five things that made them happy, they increased their overall joy and improved some health issues as well. With this in mind, send five “muahs!” to the universe. Literally. Think up something you’re grateful about, then pucker up and blow the universe a kiss! Then do it again! Appreciate. Blow a kiss. Repeat. Appreciate. Blow a kiss. Repeat.

3. Sniff Your Way to a Happier Mood

Studies from the University of Miami School of Medicine report that lavender is a major olfactory happiness tool—shown to improve mood, soothe anxiety, and even help to reduce some physical pains. If you don’t have lavender around your home, grab a bottle of Vanilla Extract from your kitchen cabinet. This yummy scent is also considered a powerful aromatherapy happiness booster.

Added Bonus: Studies also show the scent of vanilla arouses men, so considered yourself forewarned!

4. Get Lit

Studies show that sitting in dark rooms can lead to darker thoughts and that, alternatively, spending time in bright light (from being outside in the sun or inside in very well-lit rooms) can create happier brain chemistry. With this in mind, the Princeton Theological Seminary recommends something called “happy light bulbs,” which is either 60- or 100-watt daylight bulbs.

5. Have Some Punch

Punch a pillow. Punch a teddy bear. Punch some dough. Get the negative energy out of your system through energetic action.

6. Do Some Heavy Petting—With a Dog or Cat

Lots of studies repeatedly show how pets are a powerful furry form of stress relief. They lower blood pressure and reduce harmful stress hormones like cortisol. Plus, hugging and playing with pets has been shown to increase happiness-inducing oxytocin. One Grimshaw study specifically showed that patients who spent a short amount of time with a dog right before undergoing an operation experienced a thirty-seven percent reduction in their anxiety levels.

7. Go Fish

A Duncan study showed that watching a fish tank for thirty minutes lowered blood pressure significantly.

8. See Your Problems from a Headstand Position

Many yoga passionistas (including celebrity yoga guru and fellow Positively Positive contributor Jennifer Pastiloff) recommend doing headstands to release stress. MRI studies even back up a headstand’s mood-boosting benefit—showing how regular headstands literally improve brain function.

9. Get Doodle Happy

Grab some magic markers and doodle lots of heart icons. Big heart doodles. Small heart doodles. Give some of the heart doodles smiley faces. The silliness of this doodling action combined with the repeated visual stimuli of seeing icons representing love will cheer you up.

Extra Feel Good Bonus: Doodle your heart icons on a plain white card and mail it to a friend/loved one with a note expressing your adoration of them.

10. Ride or Read Your Way to a Happier You

Either ride an elevator with Tony Robbins and hope you get stuck with him or look into purchasing my newest book Instant Happy—offering up a collection of “Inspirational Flashcards” that’ll give you quickie ten-second attitude makeovers! Perfect to keep in your handbag, briefcase, or la toilette for a quickie mood picker upper. (Sorry for the shameless self promotion, but I’m truly excited about my new book coming out and fully believe in its power to create happier, peppier moods!)

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looks like the start of something awesome for you! haha thats so cool!

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bella you are right, its so so hard. i know how youre feeling, because i was feeling the same way just a few months ago. indeed i do sometimes still feel those pangs, but thats because when we think about these things we always glorify them and always remember the good parts, the bad parts seem to be erased from memory! but eventually you realise it was the right thing. right now i realise my break-up was the absolute making of me. i am such a better person. i am so much more enjoyable to be around than i was before. ive really come out of my shell. i can tell that the people around me feel the same as well, i feel so well connected now to people whereas before i allowed my life to revolve around one person. everything is so much more balanced now, and ive learnt so much that i wouldnt have learned if i hadnt gone through all this. look forward to the fact that this will make you a stronger, and better person!

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i think sometimes we cling onto relationships we know arent for the best because it is so scary to think ive trying to get over that person and start afresh and find someone new. but ive started looking at it like this is it better to have short term gain and then long term pain or short term pain and long term gain. though its hard at first we do heal, and we move on to bigger and better things. you deserve the best, dont ever forget that

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what i find when i do RS is that my intuition goes through the roof, and the amount of synchronisities in my life, not just related to the person im using RS on but in general increases, its so cool! so i know its definitely doing something!!

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sometimes i think its better to do nothing if thats the way you feel, than to do things when your feeling isnt in it! as long as you still believe i dont think it'll harm it. in fact one of the biggest things for me that happened so far was when i had not been as dedicated to doing certain exercises and stuff, so in some ways it might even help as i guess its a form of detachment if youre happy enough knowing what you want is in motion, without feeling the need to do anything.

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wow had some good quick results this time. i have some postive messages about a sport i play on there, and today i played really well!!

just a quick update on this guys. after putting the positive messages into SB i was awarded MVP (most valuable player) in all but one of the games i played! quite the result huh!

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thats beautiful news that he has woken up and is well. so glad to hear it 

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you will be massively missed ILR. your posts certainly brighten my day and have helped me immensely in my own LOA journey. i wish you nothing less than all your dreams coming true x

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what i tend to get is that i'll get a sign out of nowhere, or a feeling, and then think - wow i havent thought about that desire for a while and then bam it manifests! its kind of like a realise ive forgotten about it and then it materialises! another thing that shows to me that letting go is really the key in all this.

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