Most people can tell if a product is real or fake according to a survey. The survey also found that not many people know when a product was made. Almost everyone cares about their marketing rights.
This website provides information about the history and development of the English language, including the different periods of English and details about sign languages like Brallie. Visitors can learn about the history of English and find useful resources about the language.
This document discusses subjective well-being and happiness. It provides a selection of scientific findings on these topics, including that mindfulness, having meaningful goals, exercising, and maintaining a positive outlook are associated with increases in happiness. It then introduces the AmAre framework for assessing well-being, which examines aspects like awareness, meaning, motivation, resilience, and healthy behaviors. Readers are prompted to assign weights and grades to these aspects to calculate their personal "AmAre Index" and identify strengths and areas for improvement.
1. Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is an organizational development process that engages individuals in organizational renewal and positive change through collaborative inquiry.
2. AI was developed by David Cooperrider and Suresh Srivastva in the 1980s based on the assumption that organizations change through positive inquiry rather than by focusing on problems.
3. The AI process involves four stages - Discovery, Dream, Design, and Destiny - with a focus on identifying what works well and envisioning positive potential.
This document provides an overview of concepts related to happiness. It defines happiness as both a state of well-being and contentment as well as a pleasurable experience. Living happily requires making choices that cultivate an attitude of happiness rather than focusing only on pleasure. The document also discusses opportunities, challenges, neuroplasticity, free will, and the AmAre framework for living joyfully by being aware, meaningful, active, resilient, and focusing on health and wellness.
The document discusses the AmAre Way formula for calculating subjective well-being. It provides the formula components of Awareness, Meditation, Activity, Respect, and Eating, each given a weight and grade. It explains how to calculate an overall score and interpret it, with scores from 0.3-0.6 suggesting room for improvement and 0.61-0.9 considered optimal well-being. The document also provides context and sources for the formula as well as suggestions for periodic re-evaluation.
Practicing awareness can increase effectiveness in the workplace. Awareness involves being conscious of facts and circumstances that affect you. While the brain filters out non-essential information, consciously focusing on relevant details improves awareness. Deciding workplace safety is important allows one to better notice potential hazards. Awareness exercises, like identifying sounds and colors, demonstrate how awareness expands with focus. Greater self-awareness of emotions likewise aids effectiveness.
Eckhart Tolle is a spiritual teacher known for his books The Power of Now and A New Earth. His philosophy focuses on transcending the ego and living in the present moment to find happiness. He says pain and unhappiness stem from thoughts about situations, not the situations themselves. Tolle's teachings emphasize transforming consciousness and evolving past an ego-based state to end conflict and find personal happiness and peace.
The document discusses two books by Eckhart Tolle - The Power of Now and A New Earth. It provides details on the books' publication history and success. It also summarizes the key ideas of each book, which promote living in the present moment and shifting human consciousness away from desires and conflicts toward enjoyment and compassion. The document then describes the Amare Way formula for calculating subjective well-being based on factors like awareness, meditation, activity, respect, and eating habits. It provides guidance on using the formula to improve happiness.
This website provides information about the history and development of the English language, including the different periods of English and details about sign languages like Brallie. Visitors can learn about the history of English and find useful resources about the language.
This document discusses subjective well-being and happiness. It provides a selection of scientific findings on these topics, including that mindfulness, having meaningful goals, exercising, and maintaining a positive outlook are associated with increases in happiness. It then introduces the AmAre framework for assessing well-being, which examines aspects like awareness, meaning, motivation, resilience, and healthy behaviors. Readers are prompted to assign weights and grades to these aspects to calculate their personal "AmAre Index" and identify strengths and areas for improvement.
1. Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is an organizational development process that engages individuals in organizational renewal and positive change through collaborative inquiry.
2. AI was developed by David Cooperrider and Suresh Srivastva in the 1980s based on the assumption that organizations change through positive inquiry rather than by focusing on problems.
3. The AI process involves four stages - Discovery, Dream, Design, and Destiny - with a focus on identifying what works well and envisioning positive potential.
This document provides an overview of concepts related to happiness. It defines happiness as both a state of well-being and contentment as well as a pleasurable experience. Living happily requires making choices that cultivate an attitude of happiness rather than focusing only on pleasure. The document also discusses opportunities, challenges, neuroplasticity, free will, and the AmAre framework for living joyfully by being aware, meaningful, active, resilient, and focusing on health and wellness.
The document discusses the AmAre Way formula for calculating subjective well-being. It provides the formula components of Awareness, Meditation, Activity, Respect, and Eating, each given a weight and grade. It explains how to calculate an overall score and interpret it, with scores from 0.3-0.6 suggesting room for improvement and 0.61-0.9 considered optimal well-being. The document also provides context and sources for the formula as well as suggestions for periodic re-evaluation.
Practicing awareness can increase effectiveness in the workplace. Awareness involves being conscious of facts and circumstances that affect you. While the brain filters out non-essential information, consciously focusing on relevant details improves awareness. Deciding workplace safety is important allows one to better notice potential hazards. Awareness exercises, like identifying sounds and colors, demonstrate how awareness expands with focus. Greater self-awareness of emotions likewise aids effectiveness.
Eckhart Tolle is a spiritual teacher known for his books The Power of Now and A New Earth. His philosophy focuses on transcending the ego and living in the present moment to find happiness. He says pain and unhappiness stem from thoughts about situations, not the situations themselves. Tolle's teachings emphasize transforming consciousness and evolving past an ego-based state to end conflict and find personal happiness and peace.
The document discusses two books by Eckhart Tolle - The Power of Now and A New Earth. It provides details on the books' publication history and success. It also summarizes the key ideas of each book, which promote living in the present moment and shifting human consciousness away from desires and conflicts toward enjoyment and compassion. The document then describes the Amare Way formula for calculating subjective well-being based on factors like awareness, meditation, activity, respect, and eating habits. It provides guidance on using the formula to improve happiness.
This website provides information about the history and development of the English language, including the different periods of English and details about sign languages like Brallie. Visitors can learn about the history of English and find useful resources about the language.
The document discusses the concepts of awareness and acceptance, which are the first parts of the AmAre method for well-being. It defines awareness as assessing one's current situation by being conscious of how they perceive it. Acceptance is defined as accepting things that cannot be changed and how other people are. Cultivating awareness involves meditation practices, while cultivating acceptance has advantages like higher energy, lower stress, and making it easier for others to accept us. Loving-kindness meditation is presented as a way to direct love towards oneself and others.
This document discusses how to use social media for social change. It recommends defining goals, analyzing different social media platforms, being active on platforms like Twitter and Facebook by regularly posting content aligned with your mission, being respectful of your audience, and continuously learning about developments in social media. The overall approach is to ignite social change by empowering people as content creators rather than just consumers.
This document discusses the origins and spread of Chan/Zen Buddhism. It began as the Dhyana tradition in India and was brought to China by Bodhidharma in the 5th century. It grew into the independent Chan school in China and later spread to Korea, Japan, the West, and now online. The straightforward, non-dogmatic approach of Chan/Zen has made it appealing to laypeople over centuries by offering a practical yet intuitive way to practice Buddhism suited to the present moment.
This document discusses methods for measuring subjective well-being and happiness at the national and city level. It notes that countries are often ranked by their levels of happiness and cities by their livability. Some of the top ranked countries for happiness over 2000-2009 were Costa Rica, Denmark, Switzerland, and Finland. Some of the most livable cities according to an intelligence survey were Vienna, Melbourne, and Vancouver. The document then provides more details on calculating a subjective well-being index using the AmAre framework.
The document discusses motor and sensory homunculi, which are pictorial representations of the divisions of the primary motor and somatosensory cortex. The homunculi depict body parts disproportionately large or small based on the density of motor or sensory nerves in that body part. Areas with more complex movements or finer sensation, like the hands and face, are depicted larger than less dense areas. The document includes images of motor and sensory homunculi and explains what they represent in brain mapping.
Tal Ben-Shahar is an author and lecturer who taught courses on positive psychology and leadership at Harvard University. He provides six tips for happiness: 1) Accept human emotions, 2) Find pleasure and meaning, 3) Happiness depends on mindset not status, 4) Simplify your life, 5) Consider mind-body connection, 6) Express gratitude. The AmAre Way formula proposes measuring happiness as a combination of awareness, meditation, activity, respect, and healthy eating.
This website provides information about the history and development of the English language, including the different periods of English and details about sign languages like Brallie. Visitors can learn about the history of English and find useful resources about the language.
The document discusses the concepts of awareness and acceptance, which are the first parts of the AmAre method for well-being. It defines awareness as assessing one's current situation by being conscious of how they perceive it. Acceptance is defined as accepting things that cannot be changed and how other people are. Cultivating awareness involves meditation practices, while cultivating acceptance has advantages like higher energy, lower stress, and making it easier for others to accept us. Loving-kindness meditation is presented as a way to direct love towards oneself and others.
This document discusses how to use social media for social change. It recommends defining goals, analyzing different social media platforms, being active on platforms like Twitter and Facebook by regularly posting content aligned with your mission, being respectful of your audience, and continuously learning about developments in social media. The overall approach is to ignite social change by empowering people as content creators rather than just consumers.
This document discusses the origins and spread of Chan/Zen Buddhism. It began as the Dhyana tradition in India and was brought to China by Bodhidharma in the 5th century. It grew into the independent Chan school in China and later spread to Korea, Japan, the West, and now online. The straightforward, non-dogmatic approach of Chan/Zen has made it appealing to laypeople over centuries by offering a practical yet intuitive way to practice Buddhism suited to the present moment.
This document discusses methods for measuring subjective well-being and happiness at the national and city level. It notes that countries are often ranked by their levels of happiness and cities by their livability. Some of the top ranked countries for happiness over 2000-2009 were Costa Rica, Denmark, Switzerland, and Finland. Some of the most livable cities according to an intelligence survey were Vienna, Melbourne, and Vancouver. The document then provides more details on calculating a subjective well-being index using the AmAre framework.
The document discusses motor and sensory homunculi, which are pictorial representations of the divisions of the primary motor and somatosensory cortex. The homunculi depict body parts disproportionately large or small based on the density of motor or sensory nerves in that body part. Areas with more complex movements or finer sensation, like the hands and face, are depicted larger than less dense areas. The document includes images of motor and sensory homunculi and explains what they represent in brain mapping.
Tal Ben-Shahar is an author and lecturer who taught courses on positive psychology and leadership at Harvard University. He provides six tips for happiness: 1) Accept human emotions, 2) Find pleasure and meaning, 3) Happiness depends on mindset not status, 4) Simplify your life, 5) Consider mind-body connection, 6) Express gratitude. The AmAre Way formula proposes measuring happiness as a combination of awareness, meditation, activity, respect, and healthy eating.