“I want something new, but I don’t know what” - are you familiar with this thought? New experiences are the fuel for the emergence of ideas, innovations in everyday activities, this is what helps us see new ones and achieve them. If you feel that you haven’t done something unusual, unusual for yourself for a long time, and haven’t added fresh impressions to your life, I offer you a few ideas on how to bring something new into your life and spend your free time not boring.
African drumming
The African drum - djembe - is a beautiful instrument that is played with the hands. Today, the craze for playing the djembe or darbuka (Middle Eastern drum) is spreading like a virus, in a good way. You can buy a drum in almost every city, training groups are organized, performances and sessions are held. I'm sure there is also an opportunity in your city to learn how to create amazing drum rhythms. It's fun, interesting, gives a lot of room for improvisation, you can dance to the drums and get the most out of life. And after training you will be able to do the following things:
Volunteer action
All kinds of volunteer movements are constantly in need of new people ready to help. You can take part in one of them once in order to be filled with love for the world and for yourself for the fact that you do not sit still on your day off, but do something useful for society or an individual. Anyone can choose a volunteer activity they like: caring for the elderly or helping animals from a shelter. But the best thing you can do is to provide those in need with your services for free, what you know how to do - for example, fix computers in a children's institution, conduct psychological training with sick children. You can also start with those who are close to you, for example, visit the lonely old lady from the first floor, bring a pie and just chat with her over a cup of tea, find out if she needs help. reveals our best sides and releases such a huge amount of positive energy that it is enough for more than a dozen people.
Food fight
If the weather permits and you go big company to the countryside/outside the city, you can arrange something like the Spanish “Tomatina” - a battle with tomatoes. It's a lot of fun and not as organized as paintball, for example, so you can have a lot of fun shooting tomatoes at everyone around you. The Spaniards still fight with oranges, but this is already extreme - the juice stings the eyes, and the fruit can generally leave bruises.
Sex school
How much do you know about sex? I’m sure not everything, because a person always has something to learn. In many cities there are teachers who gather small groups to teach, for example, tantric techniques or modern ways of obtaining pleasure. Sex education will never be superfluous - if you already have a partner, you can diversify your sex life, add some spice, and if not, you will become more, because sex is one of the engines of civilization, and you will have the ignition keys.
Flashmob
Participating in flash mobs is very fun and interesting. There's a sense of mystery when you're preparing, because what you do will be a surprise to most people. Plus it’s positive, a feeling of being part of something unusual, vivid impressions received from unwitting spectators. If you save a video of your participation in a flash mob, you will be able to remember in your old age how you did something unusual. Search the Internet for forums where they agree to hold flash mobs in your city and join!
Group meditation
If you have already experienced a transcendental experience while meditating alone, multiply it several dozen times - these will be new impressions from a large group of people. Where can I find such a group? Find out in yoga studios (they are always aware of such events and conduct them themselves), if there is a Buddhist center in your city, then there. Plus, on all kinds of yoga tours outside the city, ethnic festivals, you will also find many meditators as a single whole.
To make a choice, you need to understand new feelings, and this takes time, it will show which feelings are more valuable, old or new.
The probability depends on the person, how immersed he is in the past. For some, these are just memories, for others, a life from which they do not want to get out.
Do you remember the movie Fight Club? Make fun of people, but so that you don’t get yourself into trouble. If they are casting in an alley under the house, bury a jar of citric acid + soda powder there and sit down with binoculars. Sad shit is a state of mind and must be suppressed. Don’t expect gifts from life, but do something yourself. If you haven’t decided what brings you happiness, do something useful - whatever. Achieve what is scary to achieve. But not harmful. Run in the morning for short distances but constantly. This will grow will. It looks like you have a problem that you don’t want to solve and it’s poisoning your life. In a year (and it doesn’t happen quickly) you will dare to find and solve it.
When English people have similar moods, they say life is a bitch but you can f*k it
Emotions build feelings - this is the base. This is the only way that fiery works of genius are born.
By completely depriving yourself of emotions, you turn into a piece of ice and your place is in the freezer.
And you will always experience blows, such is the world - it does not forgive (we forgive it)... it’s just that in the end your heart will become impenetrable.
But even an iron heart (which has endured millions of critical hits) is much better than not having one in the chest.
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It says: like attracts like. By thinking about debts and illnesses, you attract them into your life. When you experience positive emotions- even more positive things come to you. And this is true in all areas of human life.
If you constantly worry that you don't have money, you're afraid that you won't be able to pay off your debts, then you won't be able to achieve a state of abundance.
If you constantly expect that you can have a fight with someone close to you, this is most likely what will happen.
If you experience negative emotions, then you are in a state of stress, which means your health suffers inexorably.
What kind of happiness can we talk about if you are captive of negative emotions?!
Getting ready for the next lesson "Workshop of positive emotions" In the book “Ask and You shall Receive” by Jeri and Esther Hicks, I found an illustration of the “Emotional Scale”.
Your thoughts create feelings, feelings create vibrations, vibrations bring thoughts into reality. If your thoughts are negative, they will cause negative emotions and negative energy which leads to stress and illness. Positive thoughts will create positive energy and lead to health, harmony and abundance.
Positive emotions lead you in an upward spiral. Negative emotions- start the process of falling down. Using this scale you can easily understand where you are at different points in your life, and in which direction you are moving - towards health and success, or towards stress and problems.
Positive emotions
Main types of positive emotions:
- Flow, inspiration, creativity, open thinking, initiative
- Humor, enthusiasm, surprise
- Gratitude, respect, recognition of others
- Love, friendship, awareness of a higher purpose
- Forgiveness, understanding, compassion
- Joy, fun, enjoying the moment
- Generosity, service, kindness
What to do to increase positive vibrations and rise up the spiral?
Positive emotions help you relax, be in a state of harmony, find creative solutions and easily achieve your goals.
Numerous studies have shown that there is a direct connection between thoughts and body that leads to long-term health. IN last years a branch of science has been developed - PsychoNeuroImmunology, which studies how thinking affects the health and condition of the body. Scientists have confirmed that emotions “turn on” various diseases and lead to dysfunction of the body’s organs.
Exercises and practices that lead to relaxation and harmonization of brain activity, such as meditation, visualization, positive thinking, Emotional Release Techniques lead to a change in the charge of emotions from negative to positive, and act on immune system person.
How to get positive emotions
This is one of the simplest but amazing effective method, which acts quickly and discreetly, with results that exceed expectations.
The effectiveness of Emotional Release Technique makes it one of the fastest growing methods of self-control and personal growth. It is no coincidence that most Teachers from the film The Secret love this technique and use it regularly to manage emotions, achieve goals, achieve a state of harmony, and improve health. Joe Vitale, Jack Canfield, Louise Hay - they all speak very highly of meridional tapping.
By doing daily meridian tapping exercises that will help you maintain POSITIVE EMOTIONS, you will be able to constantly be in a state of harmony, a feeling of joy and happiness. You will be in the Flow, which means health and well-being will become your true friends.
Having mastered the Emotional Release Technique, I fell in love with it at first sight! After that, I read dozens of books, watched hundreds of hours of videos, completed the best courses from leading practitioners, and took part in Pamela Bruner’s training in the USA. Now the process of acquiring new knowledge has enriched my own experience. After all, more than 200 people have already been trained in my “Forward to the Dream” and “Laser Marketing” programs.
Each of my programs is unique! In addition to the fact that I use my rich life experience and knowledge, only in Katerina Kalchenko’s author’s program you can become so deeply and fully familiar with the Technique of Emotional Liberation. And I am proud to say that I am the First Russian-speaking expert on achieving success with the Emotional Release Technique.
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Tired of routine? Do you want something new? It’s understandable - it’s the same job, way to work, familiar social circle, monotonous weekends (leisure). All this tires and makes life dull and monotonous.
Monotony of life makes a person weak-willed, does not allow him to feel the dynamics of life. As soon as we stop being interested and striving for something new, we gradually turn into robots, with memorized behavior algorithms.
Diversify your leisure time change the situation, change the rhythm of life, fill it with new impressions. New impressions are something we have not encountered before. Something that was first felt or tasted, done or learned, etc. The benefits of new, fresh impressions are undeniable.
According to gerontologists, the monotony of life, boredom and lack of new experiences and, as a consequence, lack of food for thought lead to premature aging of the body. Interest in everything new and unknown is the strongest anti-aging factor. New impressions are also necessary for the central nervous system, for its full functioning, as well as satisfying the need for sleep.
New experiences help a person cope with difficult life situations (to survive them), help to distract yourself, restore strength and fill life with new colors.
They give birth to new ideas, introduce innovations into everyday activities, help us see new horizons and achieve them. Regularly receiving new impressions is an essential condition for creative activity and creative thinking. And even if these impressions are not directly related to the field of activity.
Research conducted in state university city of San Francisco, assistant professor of psychology Ryan Howell, demonstrate that the acquisition of fresh experiences for a person, be it theater tickets or dinner at a restaurant, leads to increased levels of well-being and makes happier person. The need for new experiences arises from high-order needs, especially from the need for social contacts and a sense of life. Acquiring new experiences, unlike buying new things, is remembered for a long time and creates “memory capital.” Things get boring much faster than memories of events.
« People are sure that big money can make them happy. However, the research I have been conducting for 35 years says otherwise. This misconception is probably the result of the fact that money gives some people a feeling of happiness only for the time when they spend this money on some new life experiences"says Howell.
Life is the sum of all impressions! Along with food, water and air, external impressions (whether they take the form of sight, sound or smell) provide us with a certain amount of energy and ensure the active functioning of our abilities. A person’s lack of need to gain new experiences first leads to stagnation in the development of personality, and then to its disintegration. Therefore, the only way not to lose the taste for life, and not to turn into a person who is indifferent to everything new and interesting, is to regularly try something new.
If you feel that you haven’t done something unusual, unusual for yourself for a long time, haven’t broken the pattern of everyday life and haven’t added vivid impressions to your experience - do it! And it doesn’t matter what it will be, scuba diving or playing African drums, participating in a flash mob or walking in an unfamiliar place, watching inspiring and motivational film or reading a useful book… Remember, the day doesn’t have to start with an alarm clock and end with the TV.
Think of everything you've ever wanted to try (you can make a list, like the two cancer patients did in the hospital room in the movie "Until I Played the Box" when they found out they didn't have long to live) and go ahead. The main thing is not to be afraid of novelty, because the fear of everything new and unknown is what often prevents us from even trying to somehow change our lives and add variety to it.
« Painting monotonous life, even if it is the monotony of happiness, it terrifies the mind that seeks variety." Anna Stahl
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You can, of course, relax at home for two days, lazily shuttling between the refrigerator, sofa and computer. Watch TV series, hang out on VKontakte, eat buns, drink wine and drown in the blissful bliss of “doing nothing”, and by Monday morning you feel even more tired and lethargic than on Friday... Or you can go in search of bright impressions! The kind that will make your eyes light up, energy will overwhelm your head, and your internal speedometer will accelerate to 100 kilometers per hour! Here only one question arises: where to get new impressions?
The most effective way to draw this energy is in your own life, in your favorite activity or in sports. But, if you haven’t found your path yet or just want to get distracted and have fun, there are alternative, so to speak disposable sources of getting colorful emotions and fresh sensations. Figuratively speaking, a quick recharge for your internal battery, which is responsible for the level of happiness and vital energy. And believe me, it’s much stronger than another trip to the cinema or to a bar!
1. Flight club. Here they fly at the controls of sports planes, ride helicopters, jump from or soar into the air. There are enough impressions and adrenaline for a month ahead. Do you think this is very expensive? Just go to the discount coupon site! Scary? Read how to cope with fear - it’s easier than it seems!
2. Climbing club. Climb an 8-meter rock in a spacious room, then push off with your feet and hang from the rope, enjoying the feeling of limitless freedom. No special preparation needed! Clubs are open to beginners and everyone. You can climb to the very top the first time.
3. Diving club. A unique opportunity to add another dimension to your reality - underwater. And, of course, experience real weightlessness, just like in space. Of course, diving into the sea is more interesting. But you can start with the pool just to try it out.
4. Equestrian club. Riding a horse is an extraordinary feeling. And when you start a horse at a trot for the first time, emotions overflow. A lot of horseback riding tours are offered on websites with discount coupons.
5. Shooting range. The pleasure of hitting the target is difficult to describe in words. Especially if you are not shooting at boring targets, but knocking small figures off shelves. Rifles, pistols, bows, crossbows, revolvers - and even a little adrenaline with every well-aimed shot.
6. Photo studio. Give yourself a new look. Try to transform yourself beyond recognition. Makeup, wigs, clothes and accessories to help you. At the same time, if your image turns out to be really interesting, you can get a photo session for free. There is such a thing as tfp - when a photographer shoots a model for free in order to add a bright image to his portfolio.
7. Theater school. Namely, a master class on acting or in the art of improvisation. For several hours you will do absurd things in the company of smiling people. Laugh, play, overcome your fears and communicate, revealing your emotions and imagination! At the same time, acting skills and the desire to play on stage are not at all necessary.
8. Dance section. You can just visit public lesson, of which there are now a huge number, if you don’t want to do this seriously and for a long time. Choose original styles: Irish dancing, step, boogie-woogie, salsa, tango, acrobatic rock and roll.
9. Martial arts club. How to get adrenaline, and at the same time get properly invigorated, waking up all the muscles of the body? - Take up martial arts! Even one Muay Thai training session or self-defense master class will give you a lot of adrenaline and invigorating impressions. They will bring benefits and give you self-confidence. And yes, it’s not scary, no one wants to knock out a newcomer’s teeth :)
10. Ski resort. You will definitely fall in love with this speed, this wind and these tops of snow-covered slopes, from which it is so fun to rush down towards freedom!
11. Theater of the Absurd. Here you will not see classical plays and old elegant costumes... This is a completely special dimension with its own laws of the genre, the absence of rules and a philosophy that breaks boundaries.
12. Aquapark. Light version for lovers of strictly dosed doses of adrenaline. And perhaps the most pleasant and safe way feel the feeling of flying.
The need for new experiences is like a drug. Only in a good way. Love life and enjoy it! 🙂
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