Showing posts with label happiness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label happiness. Show all posts

The Path Forward: Personal Growth and The Pursuit of Happiness. Neuro-Chemical Bliss CAUSED by My Own Actions... Fun, Safe, Helps Me Live Longer with More Pleasure.

Instead of Reading Books in Order to Find God... WRITE ONE! It's a Much More Meaningful Experience! Take a Blank Piece of Paper and a Pencil... AND THINK FOR YOURSELF!

I Remember Being at a Carlos Santana Concert When I Had the Realization: "Oh, I Get It. I Ought to Dance Myself into A Trance!" We Were Outdoors near Yuba City, CA on a Beautiful Summer Night... The Other Band Was THE WHO... and As I Looked at the Audience I Could See Hispanic People and White People All Having a Wonderful Time Together... 

My LOGO - PIFOG - People in Favor of Good (and Opposed to Evil) - gvan42 - zazzle/gregvan - purple64ets - gregory vanderlaan


Remember: The Fundamental Message of THE TOWER OF POWER Band is... We Can All Join Together and Have FUN!

I'm Going to Take a Break from Typing and Dance to The Jeff Pershing Band... Chico, California's Finest... Totally Positive Worldbeat Music Designed to CAUSE Happiness...

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f6EotzN45s


I Read a Newspaper Article About Finding Happiness by DOING THINGS THAT MAKE YOU HAPPY... Serotonin, Oxytocin, Endorphins... The Human Body Rewards Good Behavior... Evolution... Survival of The Fittest... It ALL MAKES SENSE!  

One Suggestion Is to Find a Hobby that is Endlessly Rewarding... I Do Art and Sell My Designs online. My Zazzle Webstore is a Place Where I Can Spend Hours Creating Art and Then Get That Endorphin HIT When Someone Actually Buys Something... 
Rainbow Spiral Cube Ornament - for sale on my zazzle-gregvan Webstore
Rainbow Spiral Cube Ornament. 
for sale on my zazzle/gregvan Webstore

Set Daily Goals That I Can Achieve and The Bask in the Glow of Success... For Example: Take a Walk in Nature... I Do This Every Day. About Five Years Ago I Was in Bad Health and Had to Use a Walker to Get Around... Thru Endless Daily Exercise (just a little bit each day) I am Now Able to Walk a Half a Mile... That's Not Very Much BUT... It's Success... and It's Interesting! Photographing Flowers and Birds and Trees and Clouds... 

Praying Mantis on a Rose in Orangevale CA
Here is a Photo of a Praying Mantis on a Rose... I Got the Reward of Seeing this Interesting Insect Because I Was Outdoors Experiencing Nature... BIG FUN!

Another Secret Trick to Life is to NOTICE REALITY: You Can do this Anywhere, Anytime... First, Unplug the TV and the Internet... That's Not Reality... That's Just Swirling Colors on a Screen... and The People That Design Those Programs are DOING IT TO FURTHER THEIR OWN GOALS. Not Yours... Ever Notice That TV News is a Hate for Profit Machine? They Keep on Screaming "Danger-Danger" in order to Keep People Watching... Because a Million Years of Evolution Proved that People Who Paid Attention When a Scout Alerted the Tribe to Danger Survived... and Those that Did Not Pay Attention Died... 

Five Simple Steps to Increase Awareness:
Look Around You, 
Find Five Things You Can See.
Four Things You Can Hear.
Three Things You Can Touch.
Two Things You Can Smell.
and One Thing You Can Taste.

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Another Secret Trick To Life is EAT GOOD FOOD. I Have Started Eating Fruits and Vegetables In Every Meal. I Saw President Bill Clinton on TV Recently and He Looks Great! Very Healthy. He Said That He Had a Heart Attack and then Changed His Diet to Become a Vegan... Well, I've Decided to Learn From Him and NOT Have a Heart Attack Myself... Just Listen to HIS WISDOM and Change My Own Life... I Have No Become a Vegan or a Vegetarian but... I'm Moving Forward in a Positive Direction... While Retaining My Right to BACON and Hamburgers!

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Recently I've Been Participation is Positive Zoom Meetings. Happy, Healthy People Sharing Wisdom Online. For Example:
The World Tapping Circle Hosted by Sonya Sophia. 
https://www.worldtappingcircle.com/ She Leads a Self Help Healing Seminar using Saying Positive Statements Out Loud and Accupressure... I Always Feel Better After a One Hour Session... and... I Write Down Ideas That I Think Up While in an Altered State of Consciousness! For Example: This Blog Post!

Here is a Video of a Healing Ceremony She Lead at a Rainbow Gathering... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2r0I8VoxJY
Goddess Temple Chico CA
Sonya Sophia at the Goddess Temple Chico California


I Also Like The Show - Saturday Night Alive for the Global Peace Tribe. https://harmonyconnects.com/Events/14144 
Music • Wisdom • Prayer • Meditation • Comedy • Community Connection... and They Introduced me to The Singer: Larisa Stow - "We Shall Be The PeaceMakers"

The Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco: They Broadcast a Worthy Sermon Every Sunday. It makes Me Think and Be Grateful... 


and Remember FARMVILLE - a Positive Video Game on Facebook... I Used it as a Stress Reliever After Work instead of Having a Drink... It's a Way to Visit an Ideal World... This Game Reminds Me of the "Perky Pat Layouts" Game in the Science Fiction Novel "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" - In That Book, Ore Miners on Mars Escape their Horrible Life by Eating Psychedelics and Playing a Video Game that Simulates Life in Los Angeles for Teenagers in the 1960's - It Uses "Barbie and Ken" Dolls, Cars and Houses to Complete the Illusion...

I also Participated in The Harmonic Convergence 2020. A Global Meditation Designed to Invite Extra Terrestrials to Visit us On Planet Earth...  "ET COME HOME." 

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Headline: 
The Neurochemicals of Happiness.
Seven Brain Molecules That Make You Feel Great.
"Life in the human body is designed to be a blissful experience. Our evolutionary biology ensures that everything necessary for our survival makes us feel good. All animals seek pleasure and avoid pain. Therefore, our brain has a wellspring of self-produced neurochemicals that turn the pursuits and struggles of life into pleasure and make us feel happy when we achieve them." https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/201211/the-neurochemicals-happiness

"Make America Groovy Again" 
Embroidered Baseball Cap for sale. 
"Make America Groovy Again" Embroidered Baseball Cap for sale.  zazzle/gregvan

You May Color This White Hat With a Rainbow of Permanent Markers... Draw a Paisley Design, Peace Signs or a Landscape - Mountains, Trees, Rivers, Puffy White Clouds... WhatEVER makes You BEATIFIC.

Top Ten ART Gifts on My Zazzle Webstore - The People Have Spoken! With Their Wallets - All Royalties Donated to Charity - Psychedelic Art - Slogans - Jokes - Hats - Buttons - Stickers

 LINK TO MY STORE:

 https://www.zazzle.com/store/gregvan/products?pg=1&st=Orders

Remember: All My Royalties Donated to Charity. Scroll Down to Find Out More... 


"Greed, For Lack of a Better Word, SUCKS!" - Michael Douglas MisQuote from the Movie About Michael Milken - Question Consumerism. Does Wayfair Really Deliver Ecstasy? Everlasting Bliss? and a List of Politicians being Bribed by the NRA...

THEY SAY that Money Can't Buy Happiness... If you have been paying attention you will have noticed that "They" say a LOT of Crazy Things... I have Money and I'm Happy. Happier than when I was Poor. Yes, it's true that INSANE GREED FREAKS appear to be having trouble with Compulsive Hoarding of Money Syndrome but... Most People are Happier with Money. 



MEME - compulsive hoarding of money syndrome - gvan42


Smokey the Bear is Lying. Most Forest Fires are Caused by Lightning and YOU Can't Do Anything about Lightning... So Why Is He Laying a Guilt Trip On People? "Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires." is a Slogan that is Obviously False and Once Children REALIZE that they have been lied to they start to Question Authority and Think For Themselves. 


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The Mitch McConnell - Oleg Deripaska - Paul Manafort Conspiracy. Featured on the "American Greed" TV Show. CONNECT THE FREAKING DOTS!


From luxury properties to an ostrich coat to Prison, Paul Manafort uses his power and influence to fuel a multimillion dollar mortgage and tax fraud. 


Also a Part of this Gang is Donald Trump who hired Paul as his Campaign Manager for ZERO Dollars and Roger Stone, former business partner of Manafort and Little Stevie Munchkin (Treasury Secretary) who got the Sanctions Lifted on Oleg. 

Paul worked for Oleg in Ukraine. Oleg Built an Aluminum Factory in Kentucky after Mitch Got Little Stevie Munchkin to Drop sanctions on Oleg. 


A new episode of CNBC’s “American Greed” will give an inside look at the life of President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort. 

How a McConnell-backed effort to lift Russian sanctions boosted a Kentucky project... 

Former Mitch McConnell aides lobbied for sanctioned Russian company to build plant in Kentucky...



PATRIOTS ARISE! Help Campaign for Amy McGrath for Senate in Kentucky... Beat #MoscowMitch Like a Pinata! He is a Corrupt TrumpNik - Obeying His Master, Vladimir Putin - Register and Vote! Throw all the Corrupt Old White Men OUT. 




Which politicians are being bribed (getting campaign contributions) by the NRA? 
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recips.php?id=d000000082


NameOfficeTotal Contributions
Blackburn, Marsha (R-TN)House$15,800
Cruz, Ted (R-TX)Senate$9,900
Culberson, John (R-TX)House$9,900
Faso, John (R-NY)House$9,900
Hawley, Josh (R-MO)Senate$9,900
Heller, Dean (R-NV)Senate$9,900
Morrisey, Patrick (R-WV)Senate$9,900
Peterson, Collin (D-MN)House$9,900
Poliquin, Bruce (R-ME)House$9,900
Renacci, Jim (R-OH)House$9,900
Rosendale, Matt (R-MT)Senate$9,900
Rothfus, Keith J (R-PA)House$9,900
Ryan, Paul (R-WI)House$9,900
Sessions, Pete (R-TX)House$9,900
Stauber, Pete (R-MN)House$9,900
Tenney, Claudia (R-NY)House$9,900
Zeldin, Lee (R-NY)House$9,900
Handel, Karen (R-GA)House$8,950
Wicker, Roger (R-MS)Senate$8,950
Chabot, Steve (R-OH)House$7,950
Coffman, Mike (R-CO)House$7,950
Barr, Andy (R-KY)House$7,450
McSally, Martha (R-AZ)House$7,450
Cuellar, Henry (D-TX)House$6,950
Lewis, Jason (R-MN)House$6,950
Rohrabacher, Dana (R-CA)House$6,950
Carter, John (R-TX)House$5,950
Balderson, Troy (R-OH)House$5,500
Barrasso, John A (R-WY)Senate$5,500
Scalise, Steve (R-LA)House$5,450
Braun, Mike (R-IN)Senate$5,200
Brat, Dave (R-VA)House$5,000
Roby, Martha (R-AL)House$5,000
Stivers, Steve (R-OH)House$5,000
Barletta, Lou (R-PA)House$4,950
Comstock, Barbara (R-VA)House$4,950
Goodlatte, Bob (R-VA)House$4,950
Hagedorn, Jim (R-MN)House$4,950
Housley, Karin (R-MN)Senate$4,950
Hurd, Will (R-TX)House$4,950
Hyde-Smith, Cindy (R-MS)Senate$4,950
McCarthy, Kevin (R-CA)House$4,950
Nothstein, Marty (R-PA)House$4,950
Saccone, Rick (R-PA)House$4,950
Strange, Luther (R-AL)Senate$4,950
Vukmir, Leah (R-WI)Senate$4,950
Bost, Mike (R-IL)House$4,500
Budd, Ted (R-NC)House$4,500
Hill, French (R-AR)House$4,500
Mitchell, Paul (R-MI)House$4,500
Cline, Ben (R-VA)House$4,000
Curtis, John (R-UT)House$4,000
Denham, Jeff (R-CA)House$4,000
Cole, Tom (R-OK)House$3,750
Bacon, Donald John (R-NE)House$3,500
Conaway, Mike (R-TX)House$3,500
Estes, Ron (R-KS)House$3,500
Aderholt, Robert B (R-AL)House$3,000
Diaz-Balart, Mario (R-FL)House$3,000
Dunn, Neal (R-FL)House$3,000
Gooden, Lance (R-TX)House$3,000
Latta, Robert E (R-OH)House$3,000
Lesko, Debbie (R-AZ)House$3,000
Marino, Tom (R-PA)House$3,000
Norman, Ralph (R-SC)House$3,000
Rodgers, Cathy McMorris (R-WA)House$3,000
Rogers, Mike D (R-AL)House$3,000
Russell, Steven (R-OK)House$3,000
Smucker, Lloyd (R-PA)House$3,000
Steube, Greg (R-FL)House$3,000
Valadao, David (R-CA)House$3,000
Young, Don (R-AK)House$3,000
Bishop, Mike (R-MI)House$2,500
Bishop, Sanford (D-GA)House$2,500
Blum, Rod (R-IA)House$2,500
Gaetz, Matt (R-FL)House$2,500
Harkey, Diane (R-CA)House$2,500
Harris, Andy (R-MD)House$2,500
Harris, Mark (R-NC)House$2,500
Hudson, Richard (R-NC)House$2,500
James, John (R-MI)Senate$2,500
Marshall, Roger (R-KS)House$2,500
Pence, Greg (R-IN)House$2,500
Perry, Scott (R-PA)House$2,500
Smith, Jason (R-MO)House$2,500
Walters, Mimi (R-CA)House$2,500
Williams, Roger (R-TX)House$2,500
Abraham, Ralph (R-LA)House$2,000
Amodei, Mark (R-NV)House$2,000
Arrington, Jodey (R-TX)House$2,000
Arrington, Katherine (R-SC)House$2,000
Babin, Brian (R-TX)House$2,000
Banks, Jim (R-IN)House$2,000
Biggs, Andy (R-AZ)House$2,000
Bishop, Rob (R-UT)House$2,000
Brady, Kevin (R-TX)House$2,000
Bucshon, Larry (R-IN)House$2,000
Burgess, Michael (R-TX)House$2,000
Byrne, Bradley (R-AL)House$2,000
Cloud, Michael (R-TX)House$2,000
.METHODOLOGY: The numbers on this page are based on contributions from PACs and individuals giving $200 or more. All donations were made during the 2018 election cycle and were released by the Federal Election Commission. Figures for the current election cycle are based on data released on June 10, 2019.
Feel free to distribute or cite this material, but please credit the Center for Responsive Politics.

Doing Useful Work is KEY to Happiness in Life. Being Able to Say "I made a Difference" is Very Satisfying.

Thinking about the Retirement of Sarah Huckabee Sanders made me feel kind of sorry for her. Maybe in her NEXT job she will find a way to do something of value to the World... Imagine what it must be like to get up every day and go LIE to cover-up Trump's Evil Deeds... Not exactly what the Buddhists call "Right Livelihood"... DEEP SIGH...

Maybe she should stay at home and raise her children. THAT WOULD BE USEFUL. 

Sarah Sanders - Liar, Liar, Pantyhose on Fire - JOKE - MEME


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