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What Makes A Soulmate?
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Becoming soulmates
Trust between two people at the beginning of a relationship enables the kind of sharing that can create a soulmate.
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The soulmate
It’s an ancient Greek ideal that a predestined better half is out there. Once found, he or she will bring eternal bliss.
Believing your partner was made just for you can reduce your trou...
Long-term commitments
The idea of a soulmate might be a detrimental way to look at relationships.
Those who believe in soulmates tend to be less satisfied when they think of the conflicts in their relationships. In the soulmate frame, conflicts are bad and a sign that they are possibly not the perfect fit.
Building a strong relationship
Arriving at a strong place of comfort and trust in a relationship takes effort.
Communication, collaboration and constructive conflict resolution build and sustain happy and fulfilling relationships despite not being a perfect fit from the outset.
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Describing Hope
Hope is a positive cognitive state based on determination and planning to meet a goal successfully. It consists of three things:
- Goals thinking
4 Types of Hope
- Realistic hope: It is hope for an outcome that is reasonable and possible. For example, hope for ease from chronic pain, knowing that complete eradication is unrealistic.
- Utopian hope: It is a collectively oriented hope that combined action can lead to a better future for everyone.
- Chosen hope: Hope helps us live with a problematic present in an uncertain future. Choosing hope for the smallest range of goals is essential to control negative emotions.
- Transcendent hope, or existential hope, is the hope that is not tied to a specific outcome, but a general hope that something good can happen.
Being Hopeful: Benefits
- Hope correlates with high academic and athletic performance, greater physical and psychological well-being, better self-esteem, and increased relationships.
- Hope can enhance well-being over time.
- Hope results in the person viewing stressful situations as a challenge rather than a threat.
- Hope can be seen as creating a buffer against chronic anxiety.
- Hope is a motivational factor that sustains actions toward long-term goals.
- Hope is positively related to overall life satisfaction.
- Hope motivates individuals to maintain their positive involvement in life despite any limitations they may have.
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True Happiness: The Science Of The Smile
‘How are you?’is maybe the world’s most common greeting question and we all ask it as a way to see how happy or unhappy the other person is.
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Measuring Happiness
Measuring happiness, which is a highly subjective emotion, is akin to getting your eye tested through the various lenses for your correct eye prescription number.
Measuring something as subjective as happiness can still provide usable results through the process of asking a critical mass of people so that any subjective inaccuracies cancel themselves out.
The Paradoxical Game Of Happiness
- People are always pushing towards finding happiness in whatever circumstances that are thrust upon them.
- Happiness and unhappiness both promote creativity, though of a different quality.
- Employees who have challenging but not impossible goals appear to be happy and productive, with high engagement levels and a sense of purpose.
- Contented employees which are too much into their comfort zones aren’t as creative as those who are a bit uncomfortable and have healthy levels of stress.