Good Life Archives - Prismism https://prismism.com/category/good-life/ Creativity in the moment Tue, 02 Jan 2024 06:16:28 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://prismism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/cropped-prismismcreative-logo-NEW-1-32x32.png Good Life Archives - Prismism https://prismism.com/category/good-life/ 32 32 179237063 Hedonic Treadmill and the Chemical Orchestra https://prismism.com/hedonic-treadmill-and-the-chemical-orchestra/ Fri, 29 Dec 2023 05:39:33 +0000 https://prismism.com/?p=2433 A few days back I read a nice response by a Redditor called “ExRousseauScholar” to the question “Is the hedonic treadmill actually real?” If you are not familar with the word “hedonic”, you may recognize it is related to hedonism – in short “hedonic” refers to the pursuit of pleasure and enjoyment. The “Hedonic Treadmill” …

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]]> 2433 Xingming https://prismism.com/xingming/ Sat, 15 May 2021 10:11:00 +0000 https://prismism.com/?p=1920 A local tai-chi teacher** has a wonderful statement on their website that is illustrative of embodied practice. XingMing(性命) Xing ( mind ) is  psychology and Ming ( body ) is physiology. Taoism’s way of nurturing life called ” Xing Ming Shuang Xiu ” means look after both ( mind & body ). In cultivating Xing …

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]]> 1920 Acknowledge daily wins https://prismism.com/acknowledge-daily-wins/ Fri, 02 Oct 2020 01:04:50 +0000 https://prismism.com/?p=1500 “If it’s not big it doesn’t count”. Do you think like that? Do you dismiss the hundreds of small accomplishments that you manage to complete every single day? Perhaps the simplest and most classic of these daily small accomplishments is to make your bed. Make your bed Tim Ferriss popularised this notion with his 5 …

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]]> 1500 Take Care https://prismism.com/take-care/ Sat, 26 Sep 2020 00:12:10 +0000 https://prismism.com/?p=1449 Often when we wish someone good-bye – we say “take care”. Like most language habits it’s trotted out unconsciously, just part of the sleep state we spend most of our time in. But is it worth pondering what “take care” might mean in your day? What would it be like to approach things with care? …

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]]> 1449 Living a good life https://prismism.com/living-a-good-life/ Wed, 23 Sep 2020 07:38:02 +0000 https://prismism.com/?p=1442 We all drift… sometimes an hour is lost scrolling (more on that another time). Sometimes for weeks or years. Pam recently read Julia Baird’s book Phosphorescence*.  One of the key themes that resonated with Pam was “Living deliberately” – it seems a sure antidote to “drift”. Julia Baird is a political journalist and presenter in …

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