Month: February 2023

This was a great day! With Thomas holding Miss Emma! Now 8 1/2! Having a great day feels so good! It is easy when you have a happy baseline. It really is important to find and maintain one’s mood. There are some tricks, like putting on background music, and the colors we use in a… Continue reading Good Morning Sunshine! Having a great day!

Science is beautiful too! Science gives us so much knowledge. We, humans, want to know all we can about ourselves and the world around us. We live in a time where we can learn so much through certain forms of educational media, and our educational systems. Being curious enough to ask questions is a start.… Continue reading Good Morning Sunshine! Science and happiness.

Motivation is defined as “The act or instance of motivating or providing with a reason to act in a certain way.” The psychology of why we do, and what we do as individuals, as couples, and as groups became a fascination of mine at an early age. My interest goes as far back as when… Continue reading Good Morning Sunshine! What motivates us?

How the mind works is through something called Neuroplasticity. The brain sends messages to the body via neurons. The brain has the ability to create networks and build on these, changing them by continually updating the information we take in from what we experience, observe, and conclude as the truest reality we believe as so.… Continue reading Good Morning Sunshine! How the mind talks.

Why blog? Why Blog? Because it is a way to convey ideas. It is a way to have a conversation if others respond. It is a way to facilitate those ideas and explore them. I feel what bloggers have to say and how makes life interesting. It means I am not alone in how I… Continue reading Good Morning Sunshine! Why blog?

I believe it questions give us answers. Is blame a learned behavior? I feel it is, as small children we learn to observe the people around us, all age groups! Parents, grandparents, siblings, and other children, teens. And all of them have done the same thing as we have. They have observed others as they… Continue reading Good Morning Sunshine! Thinking about blaming some more!

I decided I would spend some time looking up what it means to feel blame. This is a Psychology Today online article I found. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fulfillment-any-age/201509/5-reasons-we-play-the-blame-game Susan Krauss Whitbourne, Ph.D., is a Professor Emerita of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her latest book is The Search for Fulfillment. Online: University of… Continue reading Good Morning Sunshine! What I found online about blame.

Exploring what happiness is; what makes me and others feel happy has turned me to exploring blame. Looking back it is blaming that brought on so much hurt and anger. I liked the following analogy. “Blame is like taking poison and expecting it to affect the other person.” In addition to this, I found the… Continue reading Good Morning Sunshine! Exploring Blame.

Sexy? I have been thinking about this, and about all of a sudden being single, and then being the older self! Like others, I see some dam nice pictures of other older women, Recently, I joined a women’s group on Facebook; the group is full of older women talking about their lives, and what being… Continue reading Good Morning Shine! Feeling Pretty, and Sexy later in life.

Putting Happiness is something to practice, something to stick with until it is a mindset! For a week, up to a week and a half, I listened to the program called Happiness For No Reason. The reason I did this was to get the concepts into my long-term memory. The concepts discussed were something I… Continue reading Good Morning Sunshine! Putting Happiness Into practice!