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早鳥比夜鶯快樂

Sorry, Night Owls: Early Birds are Happier Than You               organicauthority  by Sara Novak

Science shows that waking up early is about more than just having extra time in the morning, it also means better mental health.

1. You’re more likely to exercise

As mentioned above, if you wake up in the morning you’re more likely to fit in an exercise routine. For some people (including myself), exercising in the morning is better than exercising in the evening because night exercise can disrupt your sleep. And of course, exercise helps with the release of serotonin in the brain. A 2001 study published in Clinical Psychology Review found that aerobic exercise may have antidepressant effects on the brain by increasing serotonin. In some cases, exercise may work even better than medication.

2. Night owls are more vulnerable to depression

A study published in the January 2014 edition of Neuroimage found that night owls had different “white matter (WM) integrity” in their brains, which means that they’re more prone to depression. The study also found that night owls were more prone to abuse alcohol and nicotine compared to early birds.

3. Night owls tend to get less sleep

The reason why night owls tended to be more depressed, according to the study, could be the result of their general lack of sleep. Meaning they don’t have different white matter integrity just because they’re born with it.

In our fast-paced society, we tend to work more than ever before and sleeping in just isn’t an option. Night owls still have to wake up and go to work. This means they end up sacrificing sleep to fulfill their night owl tendencies. Not getting enough sleep is one of the worse things you can do for your mental health. A study published in the May 2016 issue of Journal of Integrative Medicine found that not getting enough sleep posed major threats to mental health and increased your risk of anxiety and depression. Not to mention that those who don’t get enough sleep tend to dose up on caffeine. And when you’re prone to anxiety anyway, this doesn’t help the situation.

4. Early birds are happier

A study published in the June 2012 issue of the journal Emotion found that early birds tended to be happier. Researchers followed two groups of participants. One group ranged in age from 17 to 38 and the other ranged in age from 59 to 79. The study found, unsurprisingly, that the younger group was much less likely to be early birds and that the older group tended to be happier as a result.

“We found that older adults reported greater positive emotion than younger adults, and older adults were more likely to be morning-type people than younger adults,” study researcher Renee Biss, a graduate student at the University of Toronto, told LiveScience. “The ‘morningness’ was associated with greater happiness emotions in both age groups.”

Q:

Why early birds are happier than night owls?            

Pros and cons of being a early bird?

Pros and cons of being a night owl?

How to wake up early?

What happens to your body when you don't get enough sleep?

What is your view point about our fast-paced society?

How to make you happier?

國際刻板印象?

National Stereotype                nationalstereotype

Heck, I’m sure you already have heard or thought one or more of these stereotypes-turned-jokes:

    The Romanians are vampires.

    The Swiss love clocks.

    Japanese men have small dicks.

    (Thus) Japanese women love Caucasian men.

    The French have poor hygiene.

    The Chinese know kung fu. And so on…

To some, national stereotypes may provoke racism. To others, national stereotypes are harmless jokes based on the identity that a certain nation or people has established or projected towards other countries through the years.

Whatever your views are, here are some of the most common national stereotypes and why they are somehow false. Note that these are stereotypes based on nationalities and not race.

The British are violently mad soccer freaks.

They say that British men love football more than they love their wives. Although their affection towards their partners may be very hard to prove, their supposedly extreme zeal for soccer doesn’t need to be measured. The Brits love soccer. It is damn obvious. What should be debunked is the idea that they would always get into trouble for this almost romantic love for the ball.

Americans are very liberal.

Outsiders usually have a very defined vision about the Americans — liberal. In general, many see the United States as the land of the open-minded. But is America really home to the world’s most socially liberal society in the world? The answer is a big “no.”

Americans are a little too conservative. Virtually every country in Europe has a much more open and liberal view of things such as sex and other social relations. For example, in many parts of Europe, nudity is not taboo. You may find naked people at some random European beach or hotel pool. If someone takes off all his clothes in the US, he’ll be making a big scene.

The Chinese eat anything that moves.

They say that the Chinese can eat anything with four legs, except tables; anything on water, except boats; and anything that flies, except airplanes. Although Bruce Lee’s lot actually have a diverse range of foods to choose from, saying that the Chinese eats anything is a downright hasty generalization.

What many fail to realize is that every culture has its own food taboos. Some Asians find eating rabbits gross but it’s normal to Westerners. Moreover, for a culture as diverse as the Chinese, it can be very hard to group over 1 billion people and say that they ALL eat a certain “exotic” food. While some Chinese eat dogs, some don’t. Some like eating meat; some are Buddhist vegetarians.

Q:           

How and why are stereotypes formed?

Why do some people stereotype others?

Do you think that Romanians are vampires, French have poor hygiene and British are violently mad soccer freaks?

Is real that American are more open-minded?

How to get people to overcome their bias?

Do you think that Chinese eat anything that moves?

Your opinion about Chinese eat dogs?

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周六(7/29) 1.大笑瑜珈 2. 名聲/金錢/愛 您要哪一項? 下午4:00-6:00

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Laughter yoga

Laughter yoga (Hasyayoga) is a practice involving prolonged voluntary laughter. Laughter yoga is based on the belief that voluntary laughter provides the same physiological and psychological benefits as spontaneous laughter. Laughter yoga is done in groups, with eye contact, jokes and playfulness between participants. Forced laughter soon turns into real and contagious laughter.

Health Benefits of Laughter     Author: E.C. LaMeaux

1. Lowers blood pressure

People who lower their blood pressure, even those who start at normal levels, will reduce their risk of stroke and heart attack. So grab the Sunday paper, flip to the funny pages, and enjoy your laughter medicine.

2. Reduces stress hormone levels

By reducing the level of stress hormones, you're simultaneously cutting the anxiety and stress that impacts your body. Additionally, the reduction of stress hormones may result in higher immune system performance. Just think: Laughing along as a co-worker tells a funny joke can relieve some of the day's stress and help you reap the health benefits of laughter.

3. Works your abs

One of the benefits of laughter is that it can help you tone your abs. When you are laughing, the muscles in your stomach expand and contract, similar to when you intentionally exercise your abs. Meanwhile, the muscles you are not using to laugh are getting an opportunity to relax. Add laughter to your ab routine and make getting a toned tummy more enjoyable.

4. Improves cardiac health

Laughter is a great cardio workout, especially for those who are incapable of doing other physical activity due to injury or illness. It gets your heart pumping and burns a similar amount of calories per hour as walking at a slow to moderate pace. So, laugh your heart into health.

5. Triggers the release of endorphins

Endorphins are the body’s natural painkillers. By laughing, you can release endorphins, which can help ease chronic pain and make you feel good all over.

6. Produces a general sense of well-being

Laughter can increase your overall sense of well-being. Doctors have found that people who have a positive outlook on life tend to fight diseases better than people who tend to be more negative. So smile, laugh, and live longer!

Q:

What is your opinion about laughter yoga?

Do you know how to do yoga or laughter yoga?

What are the health benefits of laughter?   

Why smile and laughter good for health?

How to reduce stress hormone levels?

How to improve cardiac health?

How to produces a general sense of well-being?

名聲/金錢/愛 您要哪一項?

Fame, Money and Love: What We All Want    Pamela Tanner Boll

We all want to be rich, famous and loved.  But, how often does this happen?  In popular culture, the heroine sacrifices her career for the man she loves; the entrepreneur is so single minded that he ends up with a fortune and maybe fame, but is alone; or the talented young man who can sing becomes a star on the stage, but can’t stay married.

Is there more to life than fame, money and love?

These are the primary drivers for most folks, but, the story is that you can have one or maybe two, but rarely all three.  And yet, I would say that happiness is founded on achieving some measure of each.

But, if love, fame and money are competing goals, how can ordinary folks achieve all of them?  After all, we only have so many hours in the day.

Maybe, we are going about this in the wrong way. Instead of thinking of love, fame and money as competing for our time and our energy, maybe we have to find the common thread that allows all three.

Three years ago, I began to make a documentary film that asks what is a “good” life.  The film is called A Small Good Thing.  It follows five stories of people in the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts who have changed their lives so as to be happy and to live well.

What’s more important than money, love and fame?

Happiness is what we are all after and has something to do with having love, money and fame.  But, we can only achieve the Big Three when we have done the work of figuring out what we value, what we are here for:  purpose.  Stephen Cope, yogi and author, says inA Small Good Thing that happiness is finding “what lights you up.”

If you are doing work that makes you miserable, even though it might pay well, you won’tbe much good to others.  Miserable work is exhausting, making it hard to be presentfor family or friends.  Or say you have work you love—if it doesn’t pay, then how long can that last?  And fame is tricky—if it comes from doing the work you were meant to, okay.  If not, fame won’t last.

So, what to do??

The folks featured in the five stories in A Small Good Thing each wrestle with this question of purpose in their work and with others.

Jen and Pete Salinetti started out as a young couple by working in landscape design.  Both are hard workers and soon built up a client base for their ornamental gardens.  The money came in and they had two babies. But, they found themselves stressed, exhausted and at odds.

Why?  Well, they thought it might be because working for others was too demanding.  And yet, how could they take care of their growing family without clients?

They decided to get out of the landscaping business and to concentrate on family.  They grew a small plot of vegetables—just enough for their own needs.  Through these actions, they realized that what mattered most to them was to nurture their family and loved ones.  Growing the best food in the healthiest soil was part of this nurturance.

Q:

Fame, money and love: What do you want? 

Is there more to life than fame, money and love?

Do you want to be rich and famous?

Why is valuing material things bad?

What to do if you are doing work that makes you miserable?

Do you want to growing food in a garden by yourself?

Can money buy happiness?

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週二(7/25)1.沙發馬鈴薯 2.冷血 不救人好嗎?

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Being a Couch Potato is Detrimental to Your Health          collegenews

Heart disease

Your muscles burn less fat when you sit idle for a long time. Blood flows more sluggishly, ultimately allowing the fatty acids to clog your heart.

Moreover, sitting for long periods of time can cause high blood pressure and higher cholesterol. People spending their time inactively are more likely to have cardiovascular diseases than their active counterparts.

Colon cancer

Extra sitting time increases chances of getting colon, endometrial and breast cancer, studies have revealed. The reason is that sitting for prolonged periods of time builds up excess sugar and insulin levels which can be detrimental to health.

Vague brain

When you are in a state of motion, your body is able to drive fresh oxygen and blood through the brain which triggers the release of endorphins, including dopamine and serotonin—the pleasure and happiness receptors.

But idle muscles slow all bodily functions which can damage the brain. With a lack of endorphin produce, there’s a chance that sitting for a long period of time may increase levels of anxiety.

Regular pain in shoulders and back

Slumping forward overextends the back and shoulder muscles, especially the trapezius, which connects the shoulder and neck.

Stressed neck

If you are sitting for a long time, craning your neck forward strains the cervical vertebrae and this leads to everlasting imbalance.

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Poor blood circulation to legs

One of the primary symptoms of leg disorders is poor blood circulation that occurs because of fluid retention from idle sitting. Problems range from swollen ankles and varicose veins to dangerous blood clots (deep vein thrombosis).

Disk damage & inflexible spine

Being a couch potato means there is a greater risk of developing a lumbar herniated disc. The muscle psoas, is a muscle that travels through the abdominal cavity and, if tightened, pulls the upper lumbar spine forward. This can be harmful as a result because the weight of the upper body is totally on the sitting bones with half of your weight supported along the arch of your spine.

Q:

Why being a couch potato is detrimental to your health?  

Why being a couch potato is a vicious cycle? How to stop being a couch potato?

Is mordent life style make people lazy?

How to prevent colorectal cancer?

How can be more energize?

What to do if suffer from pain in shoulders and back?

What to do for curing disk damage & inflexible spine problems?

冷血 不救人好嗎?

Teens filmed, mocked and laughed at a man slowly drowning     yahoo.com

Florida police said a group of teenagers filmed the dying moments of a disabled man last week, with the teens cursing, laughing at and mocking the man as he drowned in a fenced-off pond.

Jamel Dunn, 32, drowned in a retention pond on July 9, and his body wasn't recovered until July 14. Shortly after, a friend of Dunn's found a video of the incident online and sent the footage to authorities in Brevard County.

In footage of the incident published by the Florida Today newspaper on Thursday, teens -- ages 14 to 16 -- can be heard laughing off-camera as a man screamed in the distance, splashing futilely in the water as he called for help.

"Get out the water, you gonna die," one teen yelled in the minute-long video, while another yelled "ain't nobody fixing to help you, you dumb (expletive)." As Dunn submerges into the water, one of the teens said, "Oh, he just died."

"They just laughed the whole time," Cocoa Police Department spokeswoman Yvonne Martinez told the newspaper. "He was just screaming ... for someone to help him."

The Brevard County State Attorney's Office called the incident a "tragedy" and said the teens had "no moral justification" for not acting while the man drowned and added that the teens are unlikely to face charges as their lack of action is not a violation of any laws.

Q:

What do you think the news reported that teens filmed, and laughed at a man slowly drowning?    

How to rescue an active drowning victim

Do you have to rescue someone in danger?

Do we live in an ignorant society?

Why is it important to know how to swim?

Is it a crime not to help someone in danger?

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周六(7/29) 1.大笑瑜珈 2. 名聲/金錢/愛 您要哪一項? 下午4:00-6:00

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大笑瑜珈

Laughter yoga

Laughter yoga (Hasyayoga) is a practice involving prolonged voluntary laughter. Laughter yoga is based on the belief that voluntary laughter provides the same physiological and psychological benefits as spontaneous laughter. Laughter yoga is done in groups, with eye contact, jokes and playfulness between participants. Forced laughter soon turns into real and contagious laughter.

Health Benefits of Laughter     Author: E.C. LaMeaux

1. Lowers blood pressure

People who lower their blood pressure, even those who start at normal levels, will reduce their risk of stroke and heart attack. So grab the Sunday paper, flip to the funny pages, and enjoy your laughter medicine.

2. Reduces stress hormone levels

By reducing the level of stress hormones, you're simultaneously cutting the anxiety and stress that impacts your body. Additionally, the reduction of stress hormones may result in higher immune system performance. Just think: Laughing along as a co-worker tells a funny joke can relieve some of the day's stress and help you reap the health benefits of laughter.

3. Works your abs

One of the benefits of laughter is that it can help you tone your abs. When you are laughing, the muscles in your stomach expand and contract, similar to when you intentionally exercise your abs. Meanwhile, the muscles you are not using to laugh are getting an opportunity to relax. Add laughter to your ab routine and make getting a toned tummy more enjoyable.

4. Improves cardiac health

Laughter is a great cardio workout, especially for those who are incapable of doing other physical activity due to injury or illness. It gets your heart pumping and burns a similar amount of calories per hour as walking at a slow to moderate pace. So, laugh your heart into health.

5. Triggers the release of endorphins

Endorphins are the body’s natural painkillers. By laughing, you can release endorphins, which can help ease chronic pain and make you feel good all over.

6. Produces a general sense of well-being

Laughter can increase your overall sense of well-being. Doctors have found that people who have a positive outlook on life tend to fight diseases better than people who tend to be more negative. So smile, laugh, and live longer!

Q:

What is your opinion about laughter yoga?

Do you know how to do yoga or laughter yoga?

What are the health benefits of laughter?   

Why smile and laughter good for health?

How to reduce stress hormone levels?

How to improve cardiac health?

How to produces a general sense of well-being?

名聲/金錢/愛 您要哪一項?

Fame, Money and Love: What We All Want    Pamela Tanner Boll

We all want to be rich, famous and loved.  But, how often does this happen?  In popular culture, the heroine sacrifices her career for the man she loves; the entrepreneur is so single minded that he ends up with a fortune and maybe fame, but is alone; or the talented young man who can sing becomes a star on the stage, but can’t stay married.

Is there more to life than fame, money and love?

These are the primary drivers for most folks, but, the story is that you can have one or maybe two, but rarely all three.  And yet, I would say that happiness is founded on achieving some measure of each.

But, if love, fame and money are competing goals, how can ordinary folks achieve all of them?  After all, we only have so many hours in the day.

Maybe, we are going about this in the wrong way. Instead of thinking of love, fame and money as competing for our time and our energy, maybe we have to find the common thread that allows all three.

Three years ago, I began to make a documentary film that asks what is a “good” life.  The film is called A Small Good Thing.  It follows five stories of people in the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts who have changed their lives so as to be happy and to live well.

What’s more important than money, love and fame?

Happiness is what we are all after and has something to do with having love, money and fame.  But, we can only achieve the Big Three when we have done the work of figuring out what we value, what we are here for:  purpose.  Stephen Cope, yogi and author, says inA Small Good Thing that happiness is finding “what lights you up.”

If you are doing work that makes you miserable, even though it might pay well, you won’tbe much good to others.  Miserable work is exhausting, making it hard to be presentfor family or friends.  Or say you have work you love—if it doesn’t pay, then how long can that last?  And fame is tricky—if it comes from doing the work you were meant to, okay.  If not, fame won’t last.

So, what to do??

The folks featured in the five stories in A Small Good Thing each wrestle with this question of purpose in their work and with others.

Jen and Pete Salinetti started out as a young couple by working in landscape design.  Both are hard workers and soon built up a client base for their ornamental gardens.  The money came in and they had two babies. But, they found themselves stressed, exhausted and at odds.

Why?  Well, they thought it might be because working for others was too demanding.  And yet, how could they take care of their growing family without clients?

They decided to get out of the landscaping business and to concentrate on family.  They grew a small plot of vegetables—just enough for their own needs.  Through these actions, they realized that what mattered most to them was to nurture their family and loved ones.  Growing the best food in the healthiest soil was part of this nurturance.

Q:

Fame, money and love: What do you want? 

Is there more to life than fame, money and love?

Do you want to be rich and famous?

Why is valuing material things bad?

What to do if you are doing work that makes you miserable?

Do you want to growing food in a garden by yourself?

Can money buy happiness?

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週四 (7/20)1.學習關懷他人 2.沒能殺死你的 讓你更強壯!

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How to Be Caring      wikihow

Being caring allows you to have empathy for others and to live a life based on affection, love, and compassion for the people around you. It can be tempting to fall into a life of selfishness and to focus only on your own goals and desires, but your days will be far more rewarding if you think about what the people in your life are thinking and feeling. Being caring means providing a listening ear, noticing when someone needs help, and helping your community without asking for a reward.

    Be sensitive to the feelings of others.

    If you want to have a more caring perspective, then you have to spend more time thinking about how other people are feeling. Be on the lookout to see how the people around you are reacting to a given situation, or just how they're feeling when they walk in the door. People who are caring are attuned to the moods of others and can tell when someone is feeling down or upset, and take measures to do something about it. The next time you are around other people, whether you're in class or hanging out with friends, pay attention to how they are feeling in a given situation.

        Even if you're not the one causing the hurt feelings, be aware of how others around you are reacting to a given comment or a piece of news. If you're in a meeting and notice that many people are visibly upset when your boss explains the objectives for a new project, you may want to talk to your boss about it.

    Think about how your actions affect other people.

    You may be too busy trying to further your own needs to always think about the impact that a certain thing you do or say can have on a person. The next time you do something, whether it's leaving the kitchen for your roommate to clean up because you're having a busy day, or ignoring your best friend's phone call about her breakup, ask yourself how this person would react to whatever it is you did. If the answer is "not well," then you should think about changing your actions to something that would better suit people.

     

    Pick your battles.

    Caring people tend to focus on maintaining positive, healthy relationships. Sometimes, this means having arguments or engaging with conflicts with others in order to resolve an issue. However, if you want to be caring, you can think more about cutting people some slack, and about maintaining positive, healthy relationships instead of fighting all the time. The next time you begin an argument or conflict with someone, ask yourself if it's really worth having or if you just want to get some anger off your chest. If you don't think an argument or confrontation can lead to anything productive, then you're better off skipping it.

        Caring people do voice their concerns when they are having a problem in a relationship or situation. But they tend to focus on keeping things positive instead of fighting if they can avoid it.

    Appreciate the people in your life.

    If you want to be a more caring person, then you have to appreciate the people in your life as much as you can. Be thankful and grateful for your family members, your friends, your significant other, or any of the people who make your life more meaningful and positive. Don't focus on the things that you're missing or the rude comments you have to deal with sometimes, and think about all of the joy and happiness that people bring to your life instead. This will not only put you in a better frame of mind, but it will make it easier for you to care about the people around you more.

Q:

How to be caring? Ways to be a caring person?

How to noticing when someone needs help, and helping others?

Is it ok asking for a reward after helping others?

What to do if you ignoring your best friend's phone call about her breakup?

How to deduce the chances that having arguments or engaging with conflicts with others?

How to fix the situation that if you were the one causing the hurt feelings?

How to appreciate the people in your life?

沒能殺死你的 讓你更強壯!

So Nietzsche WAS right: What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, scientists find   www.dailymail.co.u

Indeed, a lot of solid psychology research shows that having miserable life experiences is bad for you.

Wise man: Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher has been proven right

‘Serious events – like the death of a child or parent, a natural disaster, being physically attacked, experiencing sexual abuse, or being forcibly separated from your family – can cause psychological problems.

‘In fact, some research has suggested that the best way to go through life is having nothing ever happen to you. But not only is that unrealistic, it’s not necessarily healthy.’

He suggested that those who go through difficult experiences are given a chance to develop an ability to cope with such situations in the future.

‘The idea is that negative life experiences can toughen people, making them better able to manage subsequent difficulties,’ he said.

Although he stressed that ‘negative events have negative effects’, Dr Seery added: ‘I really look at this as being a silver lining. Just because something bad has happened to someone doesn’t mean they’re doomed to be damaged from that point on.’

What does "what doesn't kill you make you stronger" mean?    answers.yahoo.com

Best Answer:  It's just a saying. It means that you will run into many obstacles in life. If you overcome them, then basically, you become stronger. For instance:

People make fun of you when you're little. You develop a thick skin and toughness. You've become stronger.

Your boyfriend left you for another girl. You learn to use better judgment in the future. You've become stronger.

Your co-workers gossip about you behind your back. You learn to confront them and express your displeasure in their immature behavior. You've learned to use your voice. You've become stronger.

Your teenage son lashes out against you and gets in trouble with the law. Instead of just getting angry at your son, you learn compassion and try to understand him. You try to make your son a better person instead of shunning him. You've learned more productive ways to deal with problematic behaviors. You've grown stronger.

There is a death in the family. A loved one is now deceased and they played a major role in your life. You learn to move on and cherish your time on Earth. You've grown stronger.

Basically, if the obstacles "kill you", you've basically made no growth or progress. But if it doesn't kill you, you've grown stronger. 

Q:

Do you agree the saying that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger? 

Why being miserable is good for you?

Is that negative life experiences can toughen people?

How to manage subsequent difficulties?

How to be mentally and emotionally strong?

How to learn to use better judgment in the future?

How to endure and overcome the worst of life's hardships?

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