The pleasure/happiness gap

Pleasure is short-term, addictive and selfish. It’s taken, not given. It works on dopamine.

Happiness is long-term, additive and generous. It’s giving, not taking. It works on serotonin.

This is not merely simple semantics. It’s a fundamental difference in our brain wiring. Pleasure and happiness feel like they are substitutes for each other, different ways of getting the same thing. But they’re not. Instead, they are things that are possible to get confused about in the short run, but in the long run, they couldn’t be more different.

Both are cultural constructs. Both respond not only to direct, physical inputs (chemicals, illness) but more and more, to cultural ones, to the noise of comparisons and narratives.

Source: Seth’s Blog: The pleasure/happiness gap

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@DavidAmerland on How Neuroscience Is Helping Us Understand Ourselves Better

Here’s a truism: If you can’t analyze it, you can’t measure it. If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it. If you can’t improve it, you can’t understand it. Apply this to pretty much anything, it is probably applicable to everything and never more so than when it comes to the brain. Long regarded as a hermetically sealed black box we could never hope to peer into the brain has turned into the latest arena where established companies, hot startups and even national armies, look to for a competitive advantage. The reason for this is because we have finally understood that everything is data. What your senses report is data. What your brain makes of the world around you is data. What you do and how you do it is data. And the impact your every action and inaction has is data too. This page, how it was created and how it is being transmitted is data. Your accessing it is data and what you will do after you have finished reading it is, you guessed it, data. Source: David Amerland on Google

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Week From Hell? 3 Ways To Stay Resilient When You Just Want To Curl Up & Hide

Maintain your work-life balance and stay resilient during rough patches with these three pillars of wellness. Source: Week From Hell? 3 Ways To Stay Resilient When You Just Want To Curl Up & Hide | Peaceful Dumpling

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Blackout

David Kanigan always shares the BEST music…

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23 year-old Londoner Freya Ridings released her debut single Blackout in May 2017.

Liked this? Don’t miss Freya Ridings’ hit single: Maps

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Find her 2017 album on iTunes: Live @ St Pancras Church

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Toddler pretending to talk on phone will make you question your life

What’s the big deal about a toddler babbling into an a phone? How could that lead to an existential crisis? Just think about this: she’s mimicking adults. This is what we sound like. Source: https://streamable.com/4k87k

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This Japanese milk commercial is extremely unsettling

We don’t want to give anything away, because without the element of surprise this commercial isn’t that disturbing. But don’t worry––it’s safe for work.

Source: This Japanese milk commercial is extremely unsettling – Holy Kaw!

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The roots of forest bathing

Power suits, meet “Power Forests.” In Japan, Nissan and Mazda maintain agreements with a Forest Therapy Base. Source: The roots of forest bathing | GreenBiz

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Handmade off the grid cabin in western Maine…

Handmade off the grid cabin in western MaineSubmitted by Lynn Jennings. Source: Cabin Porn – Handmade off the grid cabin in western Maine…

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Sometimes you have to walk away

Sometimes you have to walk away. Source: Sometimes you have to walk away by Bryant McGill

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Triangle Solo :-D

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Rabbit rabbit rabbit

“Rabbit rabbit rabbit” is one variant of a superstition found in Britain and North America that states that a person should say or repeat the word “rabbit” or “rabbits”, or “white rabbits”, or some combination of these elements, out loud upon waking on the first day of the month, because doing so will ensure good luck for the duration of that month. Source: Rabbit rabbit rabbit – Wikipedia

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Is the soul solid, like iron?
Or is it tender and breakable, like
the wings of a moth in the beak of an owl?

— Mary Oliver

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How to go Forest Bathing

Lovely thoughts on #forestbathing from another lovely blogger…

A lazy Girl Goes green's avatarA Lazy Girl Goes Green

Yup, you heard right: Forest Bathing. It’s an actual thing, and people are doing it all over the world.

Just the same way you would bathe in water or bathe under the sun, Forest Bathing is the practice of lying, or walking, amongst the trees to enjoy the benefits they bring to your physical and mental wellbeing.

The practice, which originated in Japan (where it is called shinrin-yoku) is actually quite familiar to us. Though it may not have an official name here in the UK, walking in nature  has long been an favourite pastime; with most of us enduring family woodland strolls as children, only to revert back to them eagerly as wildlife loving adults.

And it’s not just a fun day out. Spending dedicated time in the company of trees has been proven to be good for our health. Trees are the Earths original air cleansers; soaking…

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Always In Chaos Mode? Let Japanese Forest Bathing Melt Your Stress Away

The world may be getting crazier, but you *can* set your phone down and reconnect with nature by practicing forest bathing. Source: Always In Chaos Mode? Let Japanese Forest Bathing Melt Your Stress Away | Peaceful Dumpling

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Forest Bathing: The New Meditation Trend

Source: Forest Bathing: The New Meditation Trend – Crixeo

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Goodbye, Sugar Addiction!

It’s Friday, everyone! And that means another Primal Blueprint Real Life Story from a Mark’s Daily Apple reader. Source: Goodbye, Sugar Addiction! | Mark’s Daily Apple

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Minimal Maxims

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Go to the source for more: Minimal Maxims | The Minimalists

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‘Forest Bathing’

Source: ‘Forest Bathing’

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