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	<title>The Toolbox at LisaKiftTherapy.com &#187; Happiness</title>
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		<title>5 Ways to Rewire Your Brain for Happiness and Peace of Mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all seek happiness.  We all want to feel calm, grounded and avoid being hijacked by our own emotional reactivity.  Thankfully, the recent studies in neuroscience are demonstrating how to do this.  If you find yourself easily stressed, worried and fearful, there are likely personal historical reason for this when your brain learned to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Happiness Present or Elusive in Your Life?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If someone could figure out how to bottle &#8220;happiness&#8221; they would have riches beyond their wildest dreams.  If only it were as easy as simply sitting back and taking a leisurely sip out of happiness.  Not so much.  Those fortunate enough to consider themselves &#8220;happy&#8221; often don&#8217;t realize that for many others, it&#8217;s a taller order.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doing, Achieving, Rushing:  An Important Cultural Lesson</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[They&#8217;re doing something right down here. I&#8217;ve been at our second home in Bucerias, Mexico, a town north of Puerto Vallarta, for almost two weeks.  Being here for a longer period of time has allowed me to sink into the culture a bit and operate more along the common timeline which is far slower paced than many of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mind the G.A.P. for Improved Emotional Health</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[My guess is that most of us would like to be happy and feel at peace internally.  Much of what blocks this for people are complicated layers of conditioning, negative core beliefs about self, others, the world and other difficult life circumstances.  My recent studies of neuroscience in the last few years, particularly via the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>6 Secret Qualities of Happy People</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there&#8217;s one thing that we all seek &#8211; it&#8217;s happiness. I&#8217;ve never met a person who has told me they didn&#8217;t want to be happy, have you?  It&#8217;s a fundamental human desire regardless of whether people believe they can attain it.  When I do individual therapy, I have the opportunity to sit down with people as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Becoming Psychologically Healthy by Jennifer Lehr, MFT</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We sometimes believe that if we are &#8220;good&#8221; people, good things will happen to us.  This is not entirely true. While some people are intrinsically better at certain skills such as making money, having relationships that work, or making art than others, it has nothing to do with their inherent worth. Instead, it has to [...]]]></description>
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