Tripping on Kammattipadam

 I was already into this movie within the first moments, it had a very confident start to it, like it knows it was going to be something awesome. Normally I don't like violence or blood, but in this movie it just felt poetic and like it was trying to potray a different spectrum of people and their experiences. I felt an intense and deep feeling of awe of spiritual nature by the middle, some of me wanted it to stop, some of me thought the movie was dragging out but I definitely experienced expansion of my emotional reel. I felt like I was on a wave of emotions, I was sad/worried/anxious/euphoric/ fearful of what was about to happen next. And it didn't dissapoint, exploring the nature and depth of our souls. It was exploring friendship, brotherhood, repressed feelings, criminality and justice. This gamut of neurotic emotions continued on and the movie took even more turngs into negativity and despair.By the end, I was totally washed over by emotions and everything inside me was on hyperdrive. Definitely an experience I'd never regret, please directors ,bring us more of these.

-From a fan of neuroticism.

Happiness Advantage Summary (Work in progress)

1st principle : Happiness advantage
*happy people tend to make better decisions, are  more creative, perform better at tests, happier doctors make better diagnosii that are faster and more accurate
*even something small as a candy can significantly boost happiness and thus performance
*quick jolts of happinness lessens stress and anxiety
* do somthing that makes you happy before doing something important
*activities that  can raise happiness:
Meditation
Finding something to look  forward to: Imagine a vacation that will soon happen etc.
*Commit conscious acts of kindness
*Infuse posiivity into surroundings:Go out, place picturs of loved ones on sight
*Exercise
*Spen money on experiences.
*Revisit a strength like cooking, type racing

Years of research have shown that a specific and concerted focus on your sctrengths during a difficult task produces the best results
The author encourages employees to rewtie their jb description to waht Tal Ben Shahar calls a "calling description". I have them think about how the same tasks might be written in a way that would entice others to apply for the job. The goal is not to misrepresent the work they do but to highlight the meaning that can be derived from it. Then I ask them to think of their own personal goals in life. How can their current job tasks be connected to this large purpose? Research has found even the smallest tasks can be imbued with greater meaning when they are connected to personal goals and values.The more we can align our daily tasks with our vision, the more likely we are to see work as a calling.

A hotelier menitons, like to tell each employee "Forget about your current job title. What would our customer call your job title if they described it by the impact they have on their lives".

Pygmalion effect - teachers - students - academic superstars - non verbal communication made ordinary students into actual superstars.

Third Principle :The tetris effect:
When we keep on repeating a pattern of thinking for a job or a game(ex. Tetris), we use that pattern on our daily lives and not able to compartmentalize. we see what we look for and we miss the rest. This is the tetris effect

Three things a day : Write three things that were positive for the day, it can be small like a hug from a friend, or big.
This will make you more positive, happier etc.
Journal : Write about a positive experience three times a week. Also same benefits as above

Both the above techniques will lead to all the other positive things written earlier in the book, like recognizing an effort of a coworker/subordinate, and you will see meaning and purpose within your job.

Double L's - The light that corroded me to darkness.

The pantheon of alien war lords were after us, yes! that was the thought that hooked me to the t. Ofcourse it was just an after-association of something that I "think" was real psychic visions. This isn't a world where my beliefs about psychics and mediums were readily accepted. But it wasn't like abything that I had ever experienced, it seemed very real and very convinving. I didn't how to express them . And so I delved into my own psyche exploring what was to happen to my world. Aliens in this time, were entirely possible after all we invented super-speed space and engineered ways to breathe and be alive in space for longer times than ever in hisory. Why couldn't or wouldn't there be aliens with the same kind of technology. Aliens were just another discovery waiting to happen. I was just merely one among a thousand of us, searching dreadfuly miserably for new lands and new soil. I brushed my emotions clean. I was to be arriving back in 1 day. I thought of ways to be optimistic. That others like me would find worlds even better than what I had found. The day arrived and it wasn't like I had imagined, they were waiting for me, eager to know the stories, to know the man who finally found something. I couldn't expect this, I didnt have a clue about anythign else, , the mission protocol didn't allow us to even talk to our families for more 5 minutes. We were closely monitored, we were to survive how much ever long it took to find something. That meant close control of our minds.

Double L...Page 2

As I was taken up, something beneath was I as believe funneling me. I don't know how to explain it, there was stuff all over me, but I couldn't feel it with my skin. It was an invisible force, magnetic, gravity something like them. I was grounded to the floor of the vessel. I had a throbbing pain. As I was getting higher, it kept getting more painful. I was screaming. That was when I started experiencing the visions. Brief flashes of a picture, it was green light flashing to the earth, it was huge. As they ended the pain ended, the force underneath me lifted. I boarded the spaceship. Alas no one was there to greet me. Atleast there were people I could  see on the big screen I thought then. People were curious at their new discorvery, what was I to tell them, that this world was too crazy too different. I didn't, I told them all the descriptions they wanted from me.

Double L's - A short story (maybe more)

There was indecernable light everywhere, so blindling and so out of the perception of normal human eyes. Sensors could read it and quantify it, the only thing I could do on this planet was to use my other senses, and I couldn't hear many things actually it was silence. Silence so great that I could get lost in this void, but the light didn't permit it. Finally I found something, it was soft cushiony substance that smelled like nothing I had ever smelled, I took a part of it. Kept it in the sample box. The following moment, my sensors were down. I could hear the powering off  of the device. I opened the band on my eyes and saw a world full of color and this particular thing that I cut stuff off from was a plant like still organism that was entering hibernation, I knew that because that's what they told me later. I apparently stopped this process.
The world, it was soo soo colorful and so psychedelic. Tree-like things had fascinating patterns , all of them dissimilar. The ground was transparent and even flowing above my feet like heavy gas. The sky was off a particular warm blue hue that I adore even now. That was the world as the first to step on it, everone wanted to inhabit. I thought to myself what in the world these things that I saw were. I didn't know. The periodic table couldn't fully identify all of them I thought. I send for a signal that I was coming back to the craft above. Ofcourse everyone knows it by the name Leopard. The only cat species to finally roam the planet for some reason.

-to be continued.

HARVARDS POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY LECTURE NOTES

HAPPINESS:
Depends more self esteem,social circles,levels of optimism, gratefullness,physical health,intrinsic motivated achievement
(ex. art), and less on extrinsic motivated achievement,money more than Rs. 30k and external circumstances etcc.
Creativity unlike popular belief improves with happiness.
BEING HUMAN:
Allow ourselves to accept that we are having a negative emotion and that its alright and in our nature  to experience
them..BUT with that info. at the triggering event we can change our decisions for the better. For ex. accepting we are
anxious we can prepare for it and even avoid its effects
BELIEF:
 What we believe ,we perceive ie we find and focus on things that support these and further conform these beliefs ..
Ways to change the beliefs ..
1.Prompting ..previous held information influneces our believes..to break beyond a boundary first we must relaize the
boundary is imaginary ..how use it : stiking inspiring quotes to walls ..listening to positive music,and other media
2. Self talk,convincing ourselves.
3.Imagining..Both destnation and path of a goal ,and making it as real as it gets
4.CBT ;cognitive behavioral therapy : More on it later
5.Learned optimism: Given below
Benefits: Skyrocket motivation,Break boundaries and plateus ,Achieve a state of mind when and where we want to ,to achieve
a desired success,Follow through a goal,etc
GRATITUDE
write 5 things you are grateful about your daily life on a daily basis. Become more happy,more optimistic, more prone to
achieve goals,healthier,be pro-social, increased longetivity
Learned optimism:
Optimism is a way of perceiving reality in a more productive ,positve way..IN learned optimism ,we consciously convince and
talk to ourselves in a way that we can FOCUS on the positves as well as garnering what we have learnt in a negative
event.ITS NOT THAT THINGS HAPPEN FOR THE BEST BUT WE CAN MAKE THE BEST OUT OF WHATEVER HAS HAPPEND.This is pertinent
because we are what we focus on.
Modality of an optimist:
Perceive
Bad event : in a temporary ,isolated manner ex. "It wasnt my day..."etc
Good event : in permanent,repeating manenr ex."People always seem to like me"
NOTE: The lecture suggests us to keep a realistic and flexible optimism ..rather than alter reality in any way
BEnefits : improve health and improive longetivity significantly,improve resillience ,self esteem ,builds a positve beliefs
system,which results in more energy ,work consistency and therefore more success , motivation ,
HELPFUL INFO : crying is a healing mechanism it is helpful and healing to cry,getting angry wont get you destressed it
worsens it .HAVING A SMILE on your face helps even if its "mechanical"

Empower mini drama

//Okay this is is the place where I write all those nonsense trivia /commentary stuff ..but unfortunately all I can say..Just comment for fucks sake..I wud b incredibly happy....:):)

Foodie Features 

Topic : Birds of a feather flock together


Narration:
Adersh was what you call one of those people who loved to love things so much so passionately..that they couldn't stop talking about it. Even to the point it ceased to become pertinent. He was essentially a geek. He was a geek for food,drinks and all that comes afterwards. He really was someone special.

On this particular day he was hanging out with his friend Annan. His ever so studious and loving compadre.

Scene 1:

(At Adersh's college,he is hanging out with his friend Annan .)

Adersh: Macha ,I went to an irrationally magical food festival yesterday. ,The thing is authentic shawarma always tastes a lot better with a bit more of the tzatziki,or the mash sauce . And these people are like gods man .They just know so well what to do and how to do it. Finely grated lemon zest, iceberge lettuce ,fresh mint they had it all right..And it was all going into my mouth. The Sheesh Tawook was just hanging there and perpetually moving around here and there(closing his eyes shows actions). It was just calling out to me man. I couldn't control my body . Go there or maybe here..Oh crap...I was just really so perplexed in this arabic Dilemma..Ohhh Gaaawd ...It doesn't end there .....
(friend interrupts)
Annan: Ohhh machane what will I do with you ,Your semester exams are about to start and all you could think of doing was go to a stupid food .
Adersh : Come on dude..You know how it is with food festivals..This one was really rare. They don't even come to Kerala that often .Ahhhh I would just like to kiss these people..They are like Govt. agencies. They don't give you what you want so easily ,but once you get it ohhh..!!! ohhh boy YOU GOT IT
Annan: There you go again. On your own journey. Come on Adersh , Let's not loose our focus here.
Adersh: Ok Ok I get it. Anna..But you could atleast listen to some of the things I am saying.
Anna: Ok I'll do that ,when you start walking on the right path

Adersh:(Annoyance made Ripples run through his face)Ok ok whatever then..See you tomorrow da.
Scene 2:
Adersh talking to himself: Ohh gawd why do people keep disrespecting, Even my best friend is starting to do this.. Will I die alone eating..in this unempathetic world.

Narration: Adersh decides to go to one of his favourite restaurants the star rated silver spoon.

Adersh:Waiter ! Can I have some chicken pho..
Waitress : Ofcourse sir ,what should be the seasonings sir.
Adersh: Just the traditional Vietnamese spices please
waitress:will do sir
Says to himself: Agghh this will cheer me up.. This is awesome.

Adersh overhears a Group of four people..sitting behind him .

Person 1: So you are saying you were mad enough to ask that old Italian house mistress how she made that Cicillian pasta. You could've been adjudged a privy person.
Person 2:Whatever,you didn't complain when you were eating it all up last Sunday. I really took an effort here. Appreciate me please.(with a smirk on his/her face)
Person 3:You (looking to person 1) ,you can't really complain here. You've done much madder things here. Remember what happened at ooty right.
Person 4:hehehe thats really true da. You saying this could be defined as an oxymoron .We all are really crazy foodies here.

Narration: Adersh having realized this could be his chance for making some similar people as his friends ,decided he should introduce himself.
He went and introduced himself and talked for a really long time. Until both the group and he himself were jelling really really well.
And hence he made a realization that it wasn't the people around him who was having  problems, but it was his in cohesive expectation about people being able to relate with everything was at fault. Ultimately one should really think about differences and similarities when talking about people .