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25 Reasons Not To Lose Your Temper

July 19, 2010
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Please Note: This post doesn’t promote the notion of being taken for granted.
A research carried out by Dr. Patricia Chang and her colleagues states ‘Angry young men risk heart attacks.’  It showed angry young men were five times more likely than their calmer counterparts to have an early heart attack, even without a family history of the condition.
Now if that got you worried, you’ve got to read this….
Dr. Aaron Sell and his colleagues carried out a research and came to a conclusion ‘Pretty women are angered more easily.’ (Did anyone chuckle?). They found out that women who rated themselves as [...]

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How To Have Arguments In A Relationship (A Male’s Perspective)

May 26, 2010
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This is a guest post by Ben Weston.
Ben Weston is the writer of CreativeCourage.org. He is a circus acrobat by day and personal development writer by night. He writes about movement and creating your dream life.
My girlfriend and I have done it all-  casually dated, lived together, lived across the nation, lived together again, and now live separately but close by. We’ve gone through many different stages and as a result, have had the occasional argument along the way.
What’s taken me a while to realize is that arguments do not have to be “bad” ordeals. Of course I don’t find [...]

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7 Lessons Learnt From A Break Up

May 14, 2010
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Please Note: This post focuses on those experiencing hurt from a broken relationship or break up.
You never thought things could go wrong; suddenly your world comes crashing down and the dreaded thought of a break up hovers round your head.
He/She meant the whole world to you, gave you meaning, but it’s a different story today. A break up is a painful experience and at times it leaves people scarred emotionally for life because people in troubled relationships have various expectations.
Although heartbreaking, there are exceptional circumstances where it’s advisable and healthy to go through a break up; but this post is centred on [...]

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40 Benefits Of Happiness

April 21, 2010
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A report published on the BBC website today shows a research carried out by scientists at the University of Edinburgh analysing celebrity Twitter messages in a bid to find out how happy the senders are.
The researchers believed the study could provide insights into the emotional well-being of the general population as they looked at word patterns in the tweets of 13 celebrities.
Basketball player Shaquille O’Neale ( woo hoo!!! I love Shaq) was said to be the happiest tweeter, followed by cyclist Lance Armstrong and television presenter Jonathan Ross (one of my favourites although the Andrew Sachs episode can’t be easily [...]

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Resolving Conflict In Relationships

April 1, 2010
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Resolving Conflict In Relationships
A report, ‘Can Our Brains Help Us Solve Conflicts’ published on the BBC website, highlights the findings of Baroness Susan Greenfield and Jeremy Lack as they examined the link between neuroscience and conflict resolution.
This report suggests the brain can determine optimal ways to resolve disputes, no matter their type by optimizing cognitive and psychological concepts into what will make your brain maximally receptive and innovative. It goes on to explain several ways of resolving conflicts making references to how the brain interprets them.
It seems like a very exciting field of study and it inspired the title Resolving Conflict In Relationships. This [...]

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