Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Power of the Mind: Positive Thinking

Keeping positive thinking can bring a great amount of rewards. And bring many qualities to people.  By thinking positively makes the person wanting more what they want to achieve therefore they will fight for it more eager. Most people’s problem is that they lack of this attribute which makes them weaken on their path to their goals.
                People who think negatively usually do not accomplish what they want by themselves, most of the time they need help of other and that is because, they do not have the power to go through  the whole process of completing the task they put on. Negative thinking is malicious to the person not only because it put a barrier in their way, but also because your mind and your body get use to failure. And it does not let you move on.
Positive thinking puts you in a state of mind in which you go against the odds to achieve what you to succeed the tasks you put on the to-do list, also it can bring a lot more satisfaction when you know what you want and you can think through  chances are you will not hesitate one second. Positive thinking is healthy because it can lead to many other beneficial attributes in your life, for example instead of just getting a few goal such as a good job, but also it can give you the boost to try other stuff such as a healthy body, creating a healthy diet, join a gym, help others or start a new business.
Whether you can or you cannot the only difference between achieving it or not is your mind and how you put it in shape to accomplish your goals.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Happiness and Antidepressants

   Does the road to happiness needs a shortcut when people can’t control their mood states? Sometimes people have to realize that there is a difference between being happy and felling happy. That’s how some people can do something about their situations and thinks what’s best for them, but when they lose control of their emotions and this is when most of the time pharmaceuticals play an important role in some people’s life. And sometimes it can become a state of mind. Depression leads to the use of pharmaceuticals, it causes the person fall into chemicals to calm their feelings. The people who suffer this issue should be aware of the problem that this causes, the ways they could solve the problem, what role do the doctors play, also what happens in other cultures when this problem seems to affect the environment of people who suffer depression. Knowing before you act is what can make you use a prescription or to look for a solution on your own
            Depression is a mental disorder which is cause by felling sad or thoughts of not achieving. And when this feeling grows bigger and affects the mind, then the person sinks in a state of mind which causes him/her to lose control of what to think about their own life. Depression could happen to anyone, from children to adults. Most of the time people get depressed when they are going through emotionally hard times such as, break ups, the deaths of relatives or the feeling of not getting what you would like to get. Sometimes depression is not cause by this problem, sometimes is part of you genes, some people inherit these issues. And they are more prone to suffer from this illness. Depression in small quantities could be just the feeling of failure on achieving something you set your goals on to it and it can be solve by just distracting your mind. Doing activities that involve the person doing something that increases their desires of success, there is no reason for this people to use antidepressant due that they can manage their feelings by other methods. Meanwhile people who suffer extreme cases of depression usually are hard to distract, they tend to have strong feelings of failure and desires of ending their lives, their emotions are hard to control, and sometimes hard to understand, and they need an extra help to their problem that is when antidepressants have to play a role in their lives. The chemicals that control their mood changes need an extra help from these pills.
            In the U.S the use of antidepressants is very common. Sometimes it is easier to prescribe a pill than finding other solutions to the issue. In some other cultures depression is an issue in which the whole families have to take part, where the farthest relative lives a neighborhood away. In this cultures it’s easier to share time with the people who have depression they tend to help them overcoming depression, families are close and share a stronger bond and usually they ignore the problem is called depression and give the support unconditionally in ways that are possible to their reaches. They ignore the use of antidepressants because they have only time to think about celebrations and parties or just because they ignore the uses of these pills. To the contrary in the U.S where the closest relative lives states away from the person, everyone is use to live on their own in a big city by themselves when there is no time for celebrations if it is not a big holyday. Most people have to resort to antidepressants to solve their problem.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Things that I’m grateful to Have

            One of the things I’m grateful for is with my mother. She brought me to this country and even though I was not happy about the idea at the moment, now I’m sure it was the best decision ever, I have experience a lot of great things here. I have met a lot of friends, done many things I would not have done back in my country.
            I am grateful for the daughter I have, she just started pre K this September and her teachers say that she is really smart, and anger to learn stuff, which makes me happy because that does not seems to be something she got from me. At least not at this point in my life maybe when I was younger.
            Finally I am grateful for the father I have, he has not been every moment in my life but the little he has been has made a big impact in my life and the way I am and the plans I have for my life. He is a great man who made lots of mistakes and he recognizes them, which help me to become a better person.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Friends for the Sake of a Happier Relationship

Many relationships end in failure before both people can start the process of knowing each others likes or dislikes. what would be a way in which one person gets to know the other? in a perfectly way that they could avoid the long arguments and the many attempts that end up failing?. Friendship ensures that a romantic relationship will be stronger. cultivating friendship in a romantic relationship is what guaranties a happier relationship. a healthier relationship is not easy, and requires equal effort from both person, and many characteristics, which include communication, honesty, gratitude, the desire to support each other in every situation, trust and sincerity; characteristics that are mostly found in friends.
Honesty in a relationship is one of the most difficult values to cultivate in a love relationship, because is something that depends on many other qualities that have to be build up by time. Friends are honest to each other, and they tells what is right and wrong about something. “honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom”-Thomas Jefferson. when one person shares what is bothering him/her with the other person that brings them close to one another. friendship and honesty go together therefore a relationship with honesty means that at some point they were good friends or are working on this skills. if a relationship is full with dishonesty is intended to end in failure; lies hurt the relationship to the point in which one person can’t stand the other and thinking that everything that person says it’s a lie will bring the relationship to decay. a way in which partners can practice being honest it’s to tell everything that comes to their mind, not sharing small information can become not sharing important aspect of life. you got to remember honesty is the doorway to the human soul and heart.
In order for the love an passion in a relationship to grow over time, both partners must be willing to be known , and this means gradually disclosing their innermost selves, their desires, fears, fantasies, dreams....values passions, concerns and hopes” The Pursuit of Happiness (120) encouraging communication is something that a couple have to work on is not easy, and requires equal effort from both sides. “communication works for those who work at it.” good communication is the foundation of a rich relationship because is what determines whether the couple is ready to undergo any situation they have to face in life, for example one of the partners is experiencing family difficulties and requires a huge amounts of trust from one to the other to communicate this issues, but at the moment necessary because in a relationship one person is suppose to help the other, and give support. the time passes and the one that experiences family difficulties get stress out by this issues while the other gets frustrated because does not know what is going on; not understanding whats going on decides to terminated the relationship, by the time the other partner decides to explain the problems is going to be late because the communication has gone from poor to mean nothing. a healthy communication leads the relationship to be full of support to one and another, which in the example given is not a factor that helps the relationship to be successful because there is no communication therefore there is no support, if there is no support the relationship will fall to it’s foundation which it is only strong depending on how each one is able to handle this issues that hurt the relationship making it vulnerable to any other problems.
Having fun is one of the characteristics friendship has and why should it end after the first date or the many years together. happy couples are the ones that experience many activities together because they get to know the likes and dislikes of both, they know what to do what not to do and can know they will enjoy what the other proposes, also knowing what passionates your partner can give you hints on what or how satisfy your partner, take for example sports or traveling this are activities that shared together can add valuable moments which will increase the passion one feels for the other. as is said on The Pursuit of Happiness (121) “we cultivate intimacy by knowing and being known.....engaging activities that are meaningful and pleasurable to ourselves as well as to your partner.” after five years of relationship one partner does not want to find him/herself not knowing what the other partner likes, that’s why  first few years are to get to know the other person and sharing good moments; at one point is very meaningful that your partners surprises you with a plan of activities you enjoy doing and this will ensure the increase of love both partners share, also takes them out of the monotony and break them free from the routine.
In conclusion how you share your love is determine by the trustfulness in the relationship, and this can be only done by having communication, honesty, gratitude and the desire to support each other. that is why building a good friendship with you partner is important because you need to be able to have all this qualities to share and live important aspect in your life, also to ensure that the overcoming of obstacles can be fun and interesting to both partners. cultivating communication and honesty while spending time together creates a healthier relationship that will long last. “the love you give is equal to the love you receive.”

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Relationships and Happiness

Spending time with people you love and care is probably the most important phase to build a good relationship with others, by having a conversation face to face is how you get to know the person deeper than by phone calls or text messages, thats how you learn their expressions, their laugh and many other qualities that are only visible when that person is next to you. also it's the moment to show affection and communicate many other feelings that have no words to explain. I always make sure that at any moment of the week I spend time with everyone who is important to me and sometimes when I am not able to have that time with them Its a very bad feeling because sometimes I get to let all the stress out by having fun with friends and family.

when it comes to sacrifice something that it is important to you in my opinion you  will have to have a moment alone and think whether that you are sacrificing is for a better future or if it is something uncertain. sacrifice its only called when you giving something up that its fundamental to you in some way, therefore it has to be something wrong for you to give up, but if the change you are making makes you happier then it is not a sacrifice but rather a change for a greater good.

There is no better way to cultivate a goos relationship that communication!! and honesty, those two things are not something that you kind of create but something that you have to give and watch it grow or see it in lower amounts, for example a parent and his or her child when they ask permission for something and they give a set of rules and ways to do things, if the child does not follow them and do something wrong parents immediately will have to increase a set of rules and regulations to make sure their child does not do something wrong again, in some way they do not trust the kid, but if the kid does what he is suppose to do he is cultivating a better relationship with his parents and they will trust him with greater responsibilities. 

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Happiness in Education

Education is one of the most important tools for happiness because it not only satisfy our needs to expand our know knowledge about whats unknown or what’s far from our sight, but it also opens our minds and makes easier for humans to makes decisions on what would be better for a single individual or multiple if the case is that your happiness is with many others.

the transition of ideas about happiness changes from the moment you start the first day of school in first grade to the higher levels. I myself used to say that I only wanted to go to school for lunch and play, later on in high school I used to wake up early to get to school everyday i found every aspect of school interesting and amazing; it was my 4 years of school in New York and it was a totally different experience than when i was in my country, then at my senior year I was always late but i never lost my interest to what i wanted to learned and experienced in high school, then I went to the point to my first semester at LAGCC to be the better than many of my school years, but i came again to the point in which I have a lack of what they called in soccer “discipline” to do what I'm suppose to do.

Sometimes i wonder if I'm mature enough to be at this level of education when sometimes i waste my time and then i end up doing homework really late or sometimes not even doing them, but at some points I realize that this is the best for me and everyone around me, even if sometimes if difficult to overcome obstacles school brings a moment of peace and calms you down to the point in which people can start seeing things in a better perspective.

If you do not find a way to learn at some point in your life you going to start wondering what would have had happened if you were just a little interested on learning that little thing and College or any other way, you find to educate yourself is a way in which everyone can begin building their path, life brings opportunities to those who learn how to take advantage of them but at any point of your life education will also teach you how to create opportunities instead or waiting for them to come, and i got understand that every day i see a new opportunity which appears to many in my surroundings that only few can take advantage, but i have not yet become an expert on this because my education is not over its still far from over.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

I just create an account

Is so confusing i'm planning on play around with the links and setting on my freetime