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Happiness Strategies
Be Happy

Looking Into Love and Depression
 
AUTOMATIC NEGATIVE THINKING (ANT) - The Killer of Happiness
 
1.   "Always/Never" Thinking
 
2.   Focusing on the NEGATIVE
 
3.   Fortune-Telling

4.  Mind Reading


5.  Thinking With Your Feelings

6.   GUILT BEATING

7.  LABELING

8.  PERSONALIZING

9.  BLAMING
 
PRESCRIPTIONS - The Way to Happiness

*****You Must Make Conscious Choices Every Day to Contest and Combat Automatic Negative Thinking Until You have Developed the New Habit of Positive Thinking*****

1.  Kill the Automatic Negative Thinking (ANT)

2.  Surround Yourself with People Who Provide POSITIVE BONDING

3.  Build People SKILLS to Enhance LIMBIC BONDS


4.  Recognize the Importance of Physical Contact

5.  Surround Yourself with GREAT SMELLS

6.  Build a Library of Wonderful MEMORIES and ACCOMPLISHMENTS

7.  Try Physical EXERCISE

8.  Watch Your Limbic Nutrition

Quoted from Change Your Brain, Change Your Life by Daniel G. Amen, MD

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