Monday 11 January 2016

Quote of the day

"There is a way of breathing that's a shame and suffocation,
And there is another way of expiring a love breath that let's you open infinitely."
(Rumi)

I can remember a research on happiness, done by Barbara Fredickson, when she will give a token gift before tests, a bag of candy (packed, so it is not about the sugar rush). The one who received gifts had better test results, and camera focused on the eyes iris could see that for example in a picture of 3 babies, one in the middle and two side ways, the ones who did not received gifts focused mostly on the middle picture, while the ones who received gifts focused on all three pictures. The conclusion of this complex experiment was that positive emotions (and happiness as a complex set of positive emotions overall) open awareness, expands our peripheral vision, in other words, we see the world with new eyes when we are happy.

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