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Reduce Risk Of Dementia Dramatically With This Happy Habit

Regular dancing can reduce the risk of dementia!   Dancing may be one of the most powerful ways to boost your memory. In a 2003 New England Journal of Medicine in a study of people over 75 for 21 years showed that the benefits of dancing were almost double of reading and even doing crossword puzzles. If you don’t like dancing or…

Brain Food

Move your body. It’s good for your brain.   Exercise, and not necessarily strenuous exercise is GOOD for your immune system and your brain. One study in Vermont showed that just 20 minutes of exercise can boost your mood for up to 12 hours. We tend to think that we have to commit to some elaborate exercise plan with classes and a…

Smile: Our Happy Habit Secret Weapon

Smile! It triggers happy chemicals in your body. If you are not using your smile, you are like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook. Les Giblin I absolutely love this quote. Imagine a world where we all smile more. And it turns out its really good for you! Smiling is FREE, and we can all do…

Happiness One Tiny Delight At a Time

When tiny things give us BIG joy!   Gretchen Rubin on her podcast called Happier last week talked about tiny delights. She was talking about small objects that bring us joy. Don’t we all love little things that spark joy, as Marie Condo says? What do you have at home that brings you joy when you look at it?   I have…

We Are Not Our Thoughts!

We are the observer of our thoughts.   “It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once the gap is there, you are in for a surprise, that you are not the mind, you are the witness, a watcher.”       Osho They call it our monkey mind. It is all of the 60 thousand…