"Happiness"

Happiness does'nt go hand in hand with other emotions.It's a bad boy who doesn't play well with others.You will never achieve him if you are friends with any of the other emotions ,for he is a sore loser,a loner.Happiness can only stay with you for a little while.Those of you who have him know he's quickly gone as soon as another emotion takes over.Before having his place taken , sometimes,he might linger in anticipation that you may want him back.Happiness is a fleeting emotion.Some are lucky to hold him for long amounts of time.But they are usually by a chosen few,the very young who are sheltered from the other emotions ,or,someone with optimism caused by an underlying condition.It's a bad bedfellow.

In dreams it is often washed away upon the light of day.Upon the waking of reality.Happiness doesn't get along with pride.Pride holds him back.Happiness never liked vanity.For as looks fade,years can erase the smile of nacissism and happiness is gone.Happiness doesn't work well with the poor,the hungry,the lonely,or the depressed .The sick, the dying,the weary, and the troubled.This emotion is never called upon in these circles.When you find happiness,tell him he needs to visit people more often.To put aside all the others within someones heart and look for the good,give a cheer,lend it's helping hand in a world that so desperately needs him.For if we erase all other emotions,happiness will embrace each one of us..

"Attitude Is Your Tool To Success"

Attitude- Keep your thoughts positive, because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive, because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive, because your behaviors become your habits. Keep your habits positive, because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny. If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative.

How to Let Go of Past Loves.

12 Ways to Let Go of Past Loves

Come unstuck with these techniques and discover yourself, happy and free.

At a recent dinner with five friends, my friend Julie mentioned that she had been unable to stop thinking about a former boyfriend she hadn’t seen in years. In fact, she confessed, she thinks about him every day.

As she glanced helplessly around the table not one person appeared surprised. By the time dessert was served, every woman present admitted a persistent emotional attachment to a former relationship. Most surprising? Every woman at the table was happily married!

If you are stuck in an emotional tie that no longer serves you, it’s time to set yourself free. Here are 12 fool-proof ways to enjoy the present and release your past.

Learn how to move on now.

Get Real About What Was

According to Harville Hendrix, we are most magnetically attracted to people who embody the characteristics of our parents or early caretakers because we unwittingly seek in a partner someone who will re-injure our childhood wounds. Our adult selves can finally heal those wounds, but the more negative those characteristics are (from critical and controlling to charmingly irresponsible) the more intense the attraction we feel.

We can get relief from our nostalgia for a passionate love by remembering the intensity of the memory does not hold some great truth about the relationship’s sacredness. Remember, what fueled the attraction may not have been love, but your soul’s desire to heal the past.

Purge the Merge-Urge

Subliminally, people in love promise they will meet all of each other’s needs while having none of their own. (Like mommy did!) Listen to the language of lovers and you will hear the echoes of that infantile bliss: “Baby, Sweetie, Honey, Darling.” We long for the feeling of fullness again, of merged egos. Getting free means understanding that the completeness you felt with your past love echoed a memory from infancy. It was an illusion and temporary and in reality it was not love.

Had the relationship continued, you would have seen boundaries snap back in place with the inevitable reestablishment of reality. No one would have made you feel that high forever.

Are You Romanticizing?

Brain scientists now recognize that nearly 20 percent of us suffer from “complicated grief.” According Rob Stein of the Washington Post, “One of the hallmarks of complicated grief is a persistent sense of longing for the lost one and a tendency to conjure up reveries of that person.”

The persistence of a romanticized memory contains an addictive element but the element is not in the former relationship, it’s in you. For the 20 percent of us that stuck-ness has a biological source, an actual difference in brain processing. It can help to know the connection you still feel may be more biological than spiritual in origin.

So trade in your rose-colored glasses. Chances are you are romanticizing weaknesses as strengths. Was he self-employed because of his independence or his inability to accept authority? A realistic assessment is empowering. Keep a cheat sheet of unflattering truths and refer to it when you slip into dewy daydreams. It is easier to let go of a human than a hero.

There’s No Such Thing As One and Only

Repeat this 20 times. Ask yourself whether deep down you believe that remembering the relationship preserves it in some way. Embrace the reality that longing does not connect you and write a new belief code, such as: “I have never left a relationship that would have made me happier than I am now.” “This is a person of great worth, but not to me.”

Each of us probably has 10,000 people we could feel a similar connection to---don’t mythologize as “one and only” someone who actually might have been unremarkable.

This Is Me, Free!

Visualize yourself as free without requiring that you know how that will be accomplished. Just imagine you have already arrived at a place in the future where you are. Imagine yourself saying to a friend, “Oh my gosh, I haven’t thought about x in years!” Absorb how fantastic you’ll feel, how happy and energized, and say thank you for that.

Remember that visualization is not about vision. It’s about what you feel when you envision. Feel into your freedom and cement it with gratitude.

Your Brain Speaks Body Language

Your brain believes your body, sort of a reverse of the placebo affect. You begin to feel free of the past when you act free of the past! Don’t talk about the old relationship, don’t ritualize it, don’t note anniversaries, or send mental messages. Your brain will notice how healthy you are and deepen those neural networks until they become routine.

Turn to Creativity

One of the best balms for emotional wounds is creativity, which is different from staying busy. Doing something creative, whether it is writing, drawing, composing lyrics, changing your hairstyle, planting a garden, thinking of a great gift, or redecorating a room, connects you to yourself and a power greater than yourself. Doing something kind for someone else is also a good idea but let’s face it, you can brood the entire time you are doing a good deed. Creativity is deeply engaging. It fills you from the inside out.

Read it Right

Swap longing reverie for gratitude—by whatever means you can. A photo of your dog or cat. Photos of your kids, an upbeat song without a history to it. Something to look forward to—a ritual you enjoy. Try having a book on tape to stop the tape in your head. Books work better than music because they are intellectually captivating and pull you into the moment. Music can do the opposite, drop you right into the past.

Keep a tape in the car, which is a place we’re particularly vulnerable to romanticizing. The left- brain act of driving puts your “logic brain “ into neutral and gives your right brain a chance to wander down memory lane. Best book to get on tape? “How to Break Your Addiction to a Person” by Howard Halpern.

Exercise to Exorcise

Go to the gym regularly, or go for a run. Regular exercise keeps your endorphin levels high and keeps you from falling into melancholy memories. (This is a place where you can use music, upbeat and invigorating.)

Shut the Door on the Uninvited Guest

Practice separating your “self” from your “thoughts.” It does not matter whether or not your thought is “true.” It only matters whether the thought interferes with your happiness.

Think of persistent thoughts as you would a neighbor who drops by without calling to tell you your car is parked in front of your house. Say, “Thanks, Mind, for the boring and obvious update.” In other words, respond without resistance—a mental yawn.

Disarm with Charm

When thoughts come unbidden replace them with neutral, factual thoughts, again offering no real resistance or mental gymnastics. Replace the tape in your head with, “Trees are growing,” “People are talking,” “Rain falls.”

Or, put distance between yourself and persistent memories as Russ Harris (author of “The Happiness Trap”) recommends: add words in front of them like, “Oh, I’m having that thought about __again.” “Would you look at that! I’m aware that I’m thinking about ___again.”You are neutralizing your own knee-jerk reaction.

Swap Melodrama for Goofy — Literally

Harris also suggests replaying the voice in your head in a cartoon character’s voice.

Try replaying “I wonder what ____ is doing today…” in a silly voice—like Mickey Mouse or Goofy. Likewise, try singing your memory to a silly tune like “Happy Birthday.”

Find Freedom Today

You can become unhooked with practice. Don’t mythologize the ordinary. Don’t assume a connection is sacred just because it persists. Don’t revere the teacher when it was the relationship that provided the chance to grow.

Picture this: You. Happy and free.

Tips for Happiness in Daily Life

Bringing Happiness In Your Life

Daily life can be made happier. It is a matter of choice. It is our attitude that makes us feel happy or unhappy. It is true, we meet all kinds of situations during the day, and some of them may not be conductive to happiness. We can choose to keep thinking about the unhappy events, and we can choose to refuse to think about them, and instead, relish the happy moments. All of us constantly go through various situations and circumstances, but we do not have to let them influence our reactions and feelings.

If we let outer events influence our moods, we become their slaves. We lose our freedom. We let our happiness be determined by outer forces. On the other hand, we can free ourselves from outer influences. We can choose to be happy, and we can do a lot to add happiness to our lives.

What is happiness? It is a feeling of inner peace and satisfaction.

It is usually experienced when there are no worries, fears or obsessing thoughts, and this usually happens, when we do something we love to do or when we get, win, gain or achieve something that we value. It seems to be the outcome of positive events, but it actually comes from the inside, triggered by outer events.

For most people happiness seems fleeting, because they let changing outer circumstances affect it. One of the best ways to keep it, is by gaining inner peace through daily meditation. As the mind becomes more peaceful, it becomes easier to choose the happiness habit.

Here are a few tips for increasing happiness in daily life

1) Endeavor to change the way you look at things. Always look at the bright side. The mind may drag you to think about negativity and difficulties. Don't let it. Look at the good and positive side of every situation.

2) Think of solutions, not problems.

3) Listen to relaxing, uplifting music.

4) Watch funny comedies that make you laugh.

5) Each day, devote some time to reading a few pages of an inspiring book or article.

6) Watch your thoughts. Whenever you catch yourself thinking negative thoughts, start thinking of pleasant things.

7) Always look at what you have done and not at what you haven't.Sometimes you may begin the day with the desire to accomplish several objectives. At the end of the day you might feel frustrated and unhappy, because you haven't been able to do all of those things.

Look at what you have done, not at what you have not been able to do. You may have accomplished a lot during the day, and yet you let yourself become frustrated, because of some small things that you did not accomplish.

You have spent all day successfully carrying out many plans, and instead of feeling happy and satisfied, you look at what was not accomplished and feel unhappy. It is unfair toward yourself.

8) Each day do something good for yourself. It can be something small, such buying a book, eating something you love, watching you favorite program on TV, going to a movie, or just having a stroll on the beach.

9) Each day do at least one act to make others happy. This can be a kind word, helping your colleagues, stopping your car at the crossroad to let people cross, giving your seat in a bus to someone else, or giving a small present to someone you love. The possibilities are infinite. When you make someone happy, you become happy, and then people try to make you happy.

10) Always expect happiness.

11) Do not envy people who are happy. On the contrary, be happy for their happiness.

12) Associate with happy people, and try to learn from them to be happy. Remember, happiness is contagious.

13) Do your best to stay detached, when things do not proceed as intended and desired. Detachment will help you stay calm and control your moods and reactions. Detachment is not indifference. It is the acceptance of the good and the bad and staying balanced. Detachment has much to do with inner peace, and inner peace is conductive to happiness.

14) Smile more often.

"Importance Of A Smile In Everyday Life"

SMILE>>>SMILE>>>SMILE>>>SMILE>>>

There’s a simple, easy step you can take that will exert a positive, powerful influence in a variety of situations.

That simple act is a genuine smile from the heart.
Smile, and not only does it improve your appearance, it improves all of you.
Smile, and you cannot avoid being more positive toward life.

Smile as you speak, and your voice will be more confident, enthusiastic and convincing.
Even when you’re talking over the phone and the person at the other end can’t see you, a smile adds noticeable value to the conversation.

Give a smile to others, and you instantly improve the quality of each encounter.
Smile to yourself, and new positive possibilities come clearly into view.
A smile costs you nothing, and yet it can bring so very much.

Take a look around, and you’ll see that the most successful and fulfilled people are those who smile the most.

Even when you can’t think of a reason to smile, smile anyway.
Smile, and you’ll surely create plenty of good reasons.

Even when you can’t think of a reason to smile, smile anyway.
Smile, and you’ll surely create plenty of good reasons.

The gift of being single

BEING SINGLE?

TOO often people want what they want, or think they want at the moment, which is usually "happiness" right now. The irony of their impatience is that only by learning to wait, and by willingness to accept the bad with the good do we usually attain those things that are truly worthwhile.

I have a blessing which is sometimes seen as a curse. I am blessed with the gift of being single. For most of us twenty something young professionals, or simply single people it seems the world has already come up with its own set of expectations on how we should live life. The world expects us to finish school in our early twenties, get a job, find the love of our lives by the time we reach our mid-twenties, marry and have kids. But the thing is, not everyone sees their dreams come true in the same way.

In this entry, I shall try to endeavor to change the way the world looks at being single.

The Art of Contentment. For most of us, being single will be more of a phase than a final destination. This is the best place to practice the art of contentment. Someday, I'm sure most of us will fall in love and get married. But the thing is, love will always be tested. Someone more handsome, more charming, richer, funnier, sweeter would come along. If you have not practiced the art of contentment as a single person, chances are you would be tempted to want that and not cherish your chosen one. Practicing the Art of Contentment as a single person means that you take what life gives you, good or bad, you're willing to see it through. It means you don't walk away every time things get tough because it builds in you patience, perseverance,understanding and a hundred different virtues that people in a hurry will never have. Being single means you would find how it feels to be alone thus, allowing you to cherish every moment you spend wit! h your chosen one. The art of contentment means you wouldn't mind if life had to make you wait for so long to find the love of your life, because you know that the waiting would only make the finding much sweeter.

A Time to Know Yourself Better. Being single is a time of your life when you can get to know yourself better. You can pursue different interests and passions without having to ask another person's approval. It is a phase when you can keep focus on other things, discover your potentials and talents, and see yourself become more than what you expect to be. Allow yourself to surprise you. Stop wasting precious energy trying to figure out why you're still romantically unattached. It's all in the mind. Take the time to go see your friends, spend time with your family, do charity work and you will realize that you are not, and never for one moment, was alone. Try to get to know yourself first before you try to get to know other people. To be truly loved means to be known and accepted for who you are. How do you expect other people to know you and to love you, when you don't know who and what you really are?

A Choice between Good and Best. Sometimes the dilemmas we face are not between what is absolutely bad and absolutely good. Sometimes, it's between good and best. Treat this stage of your life as a phase to evaluate who is good for you and who is best for you. Sometimes, you won't hear music, or feel magic to know who's best for you. The heart just knows and it doesn't need any romantically charged scenario to decide on the matter. Trust in your heart, and trust that time will eventually lead you to, not to the perfect partner, but to the most suitable partner for you. Being single is a phase of life that we need to be thankful for, because being single means our hearts have yet to choose the best one for us. *there's nothing wrong with being single...time will come...and you'll see...

"The Power Of Music In Our Lives"

How Music Affects Your Life

Music is a human activity which involves structured, audible sounds and is used for artistic, entertainment or ceremonial purposes. Music is a major part of our environment. Music is often referred to as "The International Language" - a simple thought with vast implications behind it. Even if you cannot speak the language of a foreign country, you can move, dance, and most of all, enjoy the music of that country. While we may not understand the words to a particular song, we do understand the beauty of the music.

The making of music predates man's use of the written word and is deeply tied to the development and uniqueness of various human cultures. Music has influenced human beings since the dawn of civilization. Music is written and performed for a variety of purposes, including human pleasure, religious or ceremonial functions, or as entertainment products for sale in the marketplace.

Music greatly affects our personal moods. Music can calm and revitalize us in a variety of ways. It can elevate our moods above our personal fears and doubts and even reduce stress and pain levels.

Try listening to a classical music score for a sense of power. Soft, soothing music can help you unwind. And listen to medium-fast to fast music for exercising and house cleaning. Putting additional music in your life can be a powerfully enriching tool.

As with everything created by humans, there is an elemental basis for the composition of music. The basic essence of music lies with its harmony, rhythm, melody and dynamics. Harmony is the relation of notes to notes as they are play simultaneously. Rhythm, by the most simple definition, is musical time.

Melody is a musical line of single tones or pitches, heard by the
listener as a single unity. Dynamics provide the emotion behind the musical thought. Dynamics tell the performer when to play a piece softly or when to play loudly--music ranges from a mere whisper to the fullest of sound.

Just as there are a multitude of definitions for the term "music", likewise there are many divisions and groupings of music, many of which are caught up in the argument over the precise definition of music. Among the larger theme areas are classical music, popular or commercial music (including rock and roll), country music and folk music. Some genres such as bebop-era jazz, rap, punk rock and electronic music are often discounted as "real music" by member music lovers.

As world cultures have grown closer, their particular musical styles and instruments have often merged. For example, U.S.-American bluegrass music contains elements from Anglo-Irish, Scottish, German and some African-American instrumental and vocal traditions. American music is truly product of the multi-ethnic "melting pot" society.

Whatever style of music you prefer, take the time regularly to enjoy your special musical composition. Music is good for your soul!

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music. Music is the key to the female heart.

How To Look and Feel Young

Live Life , Enjoy Life

Luckily for us in this day and age, we all look much younger than did people our age fifty, or even thirty, years ago. The great advances made in our knowledge of nutrition and their application by most of the population are in part responsible.

The same factor has a lot to do with our feeling younger. Another contribution to our ability to look younger is our increasing knowledge of how to use makeup, clothing, cosmetics and other things to help achieve our ends.

Your philosophy of life is the most important single factor in determining the way you look and feel. It is, after all, the basis of everything you do, whether you've consciously formed such a philosophy or not.

One cannot exist without it, but many people are unconscious of having one.
First, decide what's important to you and what isn't. This philosophy of yours goes into every area of your life and affects every member of your family. It should, therefore, in most instances, be a family-shared thing.

You and your husband and children can well work out a family plan for living together. Some families would rather leave a bit of dust on the furniture and under the rugs if it means they can have junkets together to the beach in summer and the skating rink in winter.

Others would rather never go anywhere than occupy a dusty house for one minute. Each attitude is very much the business of the person who adopts it, though frequently neither person has the slightest understanding of the other.

In our quite proper eagerness to look and feel younger, do not let any one of us lose track of the fact that maturity is a condition greatly to be looked forward to and desired. Maturity is a state of mind. It does not mean old age.
It can happen to people at almost any stage of life. And immaturity is a sign of a lack of development for the chronological age one happens to have achieved. When you reach maturity you are self-disciplined, thoughtful, understanding, self-confident, and most of all loving - of yourself and other people, despite acknowledged faults.

The way you decide to keep your mind lively and stimulated is up to you, but do realize that the best way is to encompass as must of the world around you as you possibly can. One of the best ways to be stimulating and interesting and thus attractive and desirable to others is to decide what work you'll do in our community - and do it.

What about your participation in community activities? In other words, it's an absolute certainty that there are all sorts of interesting things going on around you; to become involved in them will not be at all difficult and will add variety and spice to your life as well as to that of others.

There's another characteristic of youthfulness - optimism. You needn't be a pollyanna to be optimistic. You need only to have the happy faculty of looking on the bright side of things, which is really a habit of mind. Pessimism puts wrinkles in your forehead, draws down the corners of your mouth and makes you very unhappy, usually for no reason at all.

Looking and feeling younger is first of all an attitude of mind. But it is a great deal more than that. You might try to just think yourself younger in appearance and in spirit and find that nothing much happened at all. It takes real work and enthusiasm in a variety of areas to gain the end results!

"A Smile Makes Someone Else Day Bright"

H A P P I N E S S I S C O N T A G I O U S

A smile is a language that everybody understands
It costs nothing but creates much.
It happens fast but its memory may last forever.

Keep Smiling

"Laughter is the best Stress Reliever"

"LaUgHtEr Is CoNtaGiOuS"

Laughter...What is laughter? What is laughter?It is God waking up! O it is God waking up!It is the sun poking its sweet head out.From behind a cloud.You have been carrying too long,Veiling your eyes and heart.It is Light breaking ground for a great Structure that is your Real body - called Truth.It is happiness applauding itself and then taking flight.To embrace everyone and everything in this world.Laughter is the pole star held in the sky by our Beloved,Who eternally says,"Yes, dear ones, come this way,Come this way towards Me and Love!Come with your tender mouths moving
And your beautiful tongues conducting songs.And with your movements - your magic movements.Of hands and feet and glands and cells - Dancing!Know that to God's Eye,All movement is a Wondrous Language,And Music - such exquisite, wild Music!"O what is laughter, Hafiz?What is this precious love and laughterBudding in our hearts?It is the glorious sound Of a soul waking up!

"Loving Someone"

Loving Someone...

The Best Things In Life Never Come Without Struggle Love Is One Of Them. Why Do We Close Our Eyes When We Sleep? When We Cry? When We Imagine? When We Kiss? Its Because The Most Beautiful Things In Life Cannot Be Seen. So What Is Love? Its When You Shed Tears; But You Still Care For Him... It's When He Ignores You; But You Still Long For Him... Its When He Begins To Love Another; But You Still Smile And Say Your Happy For Him... Let Your Heart Spread Its Wings And Fly Away. The Strongest People Don't Always Win; But They Always Stand Up When They Fall...

Loving Is Not How You Forget; But How You Forgive... Its Not How You Listen; But How You Understand... Its Not What You See; But How You Feel... Its Not How You Hold On; Its How You Let Go... Its Better To Wait For The One You Love; Than Settle For Someone Whose Just Around... Life's To Short To Be Wasted On Just Someone...

"Always strive to be a better Person"

Give up complaining...
and focus on gratitude.

Give up harsh judgments...
think kind thoughts.

Give up worry...
trust divine providence.

Give up discouragement...
be full of hope.

Give up bitterness...
turn to forgiveness.

Give up hatred...
return good for evil.

Give up anger...
practice patience.

Give up pettiness...
put on maturity.

Give up gloom...
enjoy the beauty that is around you.

Give up jealousy...
pray for trust.

Give up gossiping...
control your tongue

Give up sin...
turn to virtue.

"New Beginnings"

A NEW BEGINNING

EACH DAY IS A NEW BEGINNING
WITH A CHANCE TO TRY AGAIN
ALL THE MEMORIES TO ERASE
THAT SEEMS TO BRING US PAIN

EACH DAY IS A NEW BEGINNING
WHEN WE CAN START ANEW
TO SORT OUT OUR PRIORITIES
AND KNOW WHAT WE MUST DO

EACH DAY IS A NEW BEGINNING
IN WHICH TO DO OUR BEST
IF WE TAKE THE FIRST STEP FORWARD
GOD WILL HELP US WITH THE REST

"Things we could apply in our daily lives"

"Positive Living"

1. Learn to love virtue.
2. Control anger.
3. Don't forget Charity.
4. Don't prevent philanthropy.
5. Don't betray confidence.
6. Don't forsake motivation.
7. Don't despise learning.
8. Don't freeload.
9. Feed the hungry and then feast.
10. Emulate the great.
11. Discern the good and learn.
12. Speak no envy.
13. Don't shortchange.
14. Don't flip-flop.
15. Bend to befriend.
16. Shower regularly.
17. Sweeten your speech.
18. Judiciously space your home.
19. Befriend the best.
20. Protect your parents.
21. Don't forget gratitude.
22. Husbandry has its season.
23. Don't land-grab.
24. Desist demeaning deeds.
25. Don't play with snakes.
26. Cotton bed better for comfort.
27. Don't sugarcoat words.
28. Detest the disorderly.
29. Learn when young.
30. Cherish charity.
31. Over sleeping is obnoxious.
32. Constant anger is corrosive.
33. Saving lives superior to fasting.
34. Make wealth beneficial.
35. Distance from the wicked.
36. Keep all that are useful.
37. Don't forsake friends.
38. Abandon animosity.
39. Learn from the learned.
40. Don't hide knowledge.
41. Don't swindle.
42. Ban all illegal games.
43. Don't vilify.
44. Honor your Lands Constitution.
45. Associate with the noble.
46. Stop being paradoxical.
47. Remember to be righteous.
48. Don't hurt others feelings.
49. Don't gamble.
50. Action with perfection.
51. Seek out good friends.
52. Avoid being insulted.
53. Don't show fatigue in conversation.
54. Don't be a lazybones.
55. Be trustworthy.
56. Be kind to the unfortunate.
57. Serve the protector.
58. Don't sin.
59. Don't attract suffering.
60. Deliberate every action.
61. Don't defame the divine.
62. Live in unison with your countrymen.
63. Don't listen to the designing.
64. Don't forget your past glory.
65. Don't compete if sure of defeat.
66. Adhere to the beneficial.
67. Do nationally agreeable.
68. Don't depart from good standing.
69. Don't jump into a watery grave.
70. Don't over snack.
71. Read variety of materials.
72. Grow your own staple.
73. Exhibit good manners always.
74. Don't involve in destruction.
75. Don't dabble in sleaze.
76. Avoid unhealthy lifestyle.
77. Speak no vulgarity.
78. Keep away from the vicious.
79. Watch out for self-incrimination.
80. Follow path of honor.
81. Protect your benefactor.
82. Cultivate the land and feed.
83. Seek help from the old and wise.
84. Eradicate ignorance.
85. Don't comply with idiots.
86. Protect and enhance your wealth.
87. Don't encourage war.
88. Don't vacillate.
89. Don't accommodate your enemy.
90. Don't over dramatize.
91. Don't be a glutton.
92. Don't join an unjust fight.
93. Don't agree with the stubborn.
94. Stick with your exemplary wife.
95. Listen to men of quality.
96. Dissociate from the jealous.
97. Speak with clarity.
98. Hate any desire for lust.
99. Don't self-praise.
100. Don't gossip or spread rumor.
101. Long to learn.
102. Work for a peaceful life.
103. Lead exemplary life.
104. Live amicably.
105. Don't be harsh with words and deeds.
106. Don't premeditate harm.

107. Be an early-riser.
108. Never join your enemy.
109. Be impartial in judgement.

Top 10 Reasons To Smile

Smiling is a great way to make yourself stand out while helping your body to function better. Smile to improve your health, your stress level, and your attractiveness.

1. Smiling makes us attractive.We are drawn to people who smile. There is an attraction factor. We want to know a smiling person and figure out what is so good. Frowns, scowls and grimaces all push people away -- but a smile draws them in.

2. Smiling Changes Our Mood.Next time you are feeling down, try putting on a smile. There's a good chance you mood will change for the better. Smiling can trick the body into helping you change your mood.

3. Smiling is Contagious.When someone is smiling they lighten up the room, change the moods of others, and make things happier. A smiling person brings happiness with them. Smile lots and you will draw people to you.

4. Smiling Relieves. StressStress can really show up in our faces. Smiling helps to prevent us from looking tired, worn down, and overwhelmed. When you are stressed, take time to put on a smile. The stress should be reduced and you'll be better able to take action.

5. Smiling Boosts Your Immune System.Smiling helps the immune system to work better. When you smile, immune function improves possibly because you are more relaxed. Prevent the flu and colds by smiling.

6. Smiling Lowers Your Blood Pressure.When you smile, there is a measurable reduction in your blood pressure. Give it a try if you have a blood pressure monitor at home. Sit for a few minutes, take a reading. Then smile for a minute and take another reading while still smiling. Do you notice a difference?

7. Smiling Releases Endorphins, Natural Pain Killers and SerotoninStudies have shown that smiling releases endorphins, natural pain killers, and serotonin. Together these three make us feel good. Smiling is a natural drug.

8. Smiling Lifts the Face and Makes You Look Younger.The muscles we use to smile lift the face, making a person appear younger. Don't go for a face lift, just try smiling your way through the day -- you'll look younger and feel better.

9. Smiling Makes You Seem Successful.Smiling people appear more confident, are more likely to be promoted, and more likely to be approached. Put on a smile at meetings and appointments and people will react to you differently.

10. Smiling Helps You Stay Positive.Try this test: Smile. Now try to think of something negative without losing the smile. It's hard. When we smile our body is sending the rest of us a message that "Life is Good!" Stay away from depression, stress and worry by smiling.