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Enjoy Walking through Green in Greece, so Relaxing for the Mind



According to a University of York trecent publication walking between busy urban environments and green spaces triggers changes in levels of excitement, engagement and frustration in the brain, a study of older people has found.


Walking between busy urban environments and green spaces triggers changes in levels of exciteme...

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Mindful on Senses: Moments Happiest 

 Whether focusing on an inner experience or connecting with others, you were happiest when giving your full to the here-and-now – what many people these days call being mindful. Without it, you might have enjoyed an event, but it would not have been a “happiest moment.”

You take in positive experiences through your senses



To help you acknowledge and enhance these joys, consider the following questions:

  • Does what you see make you happy? It might be an extraordinary landscape , but Whatever it is that captures your attention, make note of how it warms your heart.
  • Are you enjoying the sound of something? You might feel positively energized by your favorite music, relaxed by the ocean, or comforted by the voice of a loved one. Although the effect of these sounds is different, they are all examples of you enjoying an experience.
  • Do you 
  •  something pleasing? Whether your mouth is watering from the smell of freshly baking cookies or you feel soothed by the smell of flowers, pay attention to not just the smell, but also how it makes you feel

  • Are you taking the time to taste and enjoy your food? Eating good food can be one of the greatest pleasures in life.

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  • Are you feeling good through the sensation of touch? You might enjoy hugging your spouse or the sense of sunlight “touching” your skin might feel like an infusion of pure happiness. 


The more you pay attention to the joy of your senses, the more fully you will feel happy.

Take the time to notice and appreciate all the good feelings that your senses offer both purely within yourself and between you and others.

By doing so, you will have many more “happiest” moments.

Psychology Today
 
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Mind Full
of Senses

Take A Moment to Be Mindful 
 Engage your senses fully
 Notice each sight, 
touch,
and sound
 so that you savor every sensation.

http://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/take-a-moment-to-be-mindful

Kate Hudson , Skiathos, June 20, 2015,, posted on Instagram saying Thank you Greece!


 


Mindfulness is about “maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment.”
Berkeley Univ.

There is a blueness of sea that seems feasible only via Photoshop or an Instagram filter, but which is made real around the south-east Aegean’s Dodecanese islands....
the Guardian

 

#MindfulGlam Captured in #Greece 


Alessandra Ambrosio 

as a "Sun 

Goddess", during Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, exploring how it feels like ..



Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson 
 paddle boarding on the Greek island of Antiparos where they keep their home, obviously mindful both

 @ParisHilton July 8, 2016
Greetings from #Paradise. #Mykonos

@sabrinachakici 1 Jul 2016
Feeling like a lucky little birdie!! Dressing like one too;) #FFislandhopping in Mykonos



 Yeah! Mindful Vacation 

 
. When we’re in our normal, day-to-day lives, our brains can go on autopilot: they know how things work and where places are.

 But when our brains are exposed to new sounds, tastes and cultures, different synapses fire off in your brain, if only because you’ll have to find more in our happygreek2m blog on wordpress 



 

 

In Greece. Sense, in every step you make 

 


Attend the pleasure 

#Greece #Sensations by India TV star Natasa Stankovic July 2016 saying ThankGod


 

Alessandra Ambrosio, Just discovered she fell  in love ...   with this island (mykonos),



Senses are essentially the doorways to your happiness.


You can walk through these doors by choosing to attend to the pleasure they bring you and to hold that attention. 


This process of opening up to your senses is fundamentally about opening up the connection between yourself and the world. If you allow yourself to be mindful of one of your senses when it makes you happy, you might notice that you begin to be more aware of your other senses as well. 


The more you pay attention to the joy of your senses, the more the happiest moments 

Leslie Becker-Phelps, Psychology Today 

 
 


Mindful to Happiness 

 
Epicurus, first supporter of the Right of Happiness in the world

Epicurus, first supporter of the Right of Happiness in the world

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The right of happiness for every human being was first supported by the philosopher Epicurus, followed by Thomas Jefferson, the Epicurean author of the American Declaration of Independence, in which he included it. In 2012, the United Nations recognized that happiness is a fundamental human goal and right.

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Aristotle :introduced the science of happiness

Aristotle :introduced the science of happiness

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Aristotle was convinced that a genuinely happy life required the fulfillment of a broad range of conditions, including physical as well as mental well-being. In this way he introduced the idea of a science of happiness in the classical sense, in terms of a new field of knowledge.

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Pathways to Happiness through Mindfulness

  • Feeling good. Seeking pleasurable emotions and sensations, from the hedonistic model of happiness put forth by Epicurus, which focused on reaching happiness by maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain.

  • Engaging fully ( Mindfulness) Pursuing activities that engage you fully, from the influential research by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. who has explored for decades, people's satisfaction in their everyday activities, finding that people report the greatest satisfaction when they are totally immersed in and concentrating on what they are doing — he dubbed this state of intense absorption "flow."

  • Doing good. Searching for meaning outside yourself, tracing back to Aristotle's notion of eudemonia, which emphasized knowing your true self and acting in accordance with your virtues.
health.harvard.edu/healthbeat/the-happiness-health-connection




Mindfulness by Aristotle while inLesvos. And Biology emerged...

As so, Theophrastus with Botanic...
Together with Aristotle he had tutored Alexander the Great whose military conquests were carried out with all the scientific resources of the day, the Lyceum garden probably containing many botanical trophies collected during his campaigns as well as other explorations in distant lands. 
Aristotelis was a "refugee" to Lesvos when he discovered his lagoon

Lesvos was to Aristotle what the Galápagos were to Darwin. Aristotle  and his new wife had to flee in 345 BC from  Assos, Asia Minor, when it  was conquered by the Persians. They made landfall in nearby Lesvos, which is where Aristotle gathered the m...Read Full Post »

photos: Above,, Kalloni Wetland Lesvos, Next,  Axladeri Lesvos




 

Mindful the Journey, That' s Life 

  • How do you feel waking up on a Greek Island every day? 

(Sounds amazing when you live in a big city)


I feel privileged, and really happy to be alive.


I am a great believer in change and I think whatever your dream you owe it to yourself to explore it. 

Claire Lloyd to Carla Coutson, Lesvos  


#ExploreYourMindfulness 

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To Lesvos with   Mindfulness 

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