
Lecture discusses the basics of nutrition.
First handout (nutrient charts) provides charts of nutrients for item comparison (1 ounce/28 grams)
Second handout (Mushroom) provides nutrient comparisons for meals, and shows that all vegetable substitutes for entrees are deficient in macronutrients appropriate for a meal.
All nutritional information is from https://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/
Rest and sleep refresh the mind and boost daytime productivity, while planned breaks clear the mind. Exercise strengthens muscles, bones, and heart health, boosts mood, and supports mobility with aging.
Correction: The limbic system is comprised of amygdala and hippocampus (not hypothalamus).
How to develop spirit for greater happiness and well-being. Mindfulness meditation.
This 10-minute mindfulness meditation focuses on developing higher qualities for the self and for extending to others.
See that our emotions fall into three broad categories: pleasant, sad, and anxious. Better understand how they work from a physiological perspective (in your brain). Discuss how to manage them.
Discussion and demonstration of tapping to release difficult emotions and amplify pleasant emotions.
Discusses what self-awareness is and why it's important to our relationships.
Explore how tone of voice shapes emotions in everyday interactions, highlighting softer tones that express patience and kindness, and guiding self-aware, intentional use of vocal tone.
Master listening by contrasting active listening with pseudo listening, defensive listening, and selective listening, and learn to give full, undivided attention to strengthen relationships through attentive communication.
Explore face theory in day six, where our social self ties to the three face needs: competence, autonomy, and fellowship; we save, protect, or threaten face through interactions.
Today, revisit all six relationship skills from this week, including self-awareness, listening behaviors, saving face, nonverbal communication, showing value, and linguistic ambiguity.
This is a course in the science of well-being and happiness. We discuss well-being in each life dimension: body, mind, spirit, emotions, and social. By the end of this course, you will have a whole new toolkit of insights that will each help make your life better in some small way. Together, these pieces lay a powerful path to well-being and happiness.
This science this course is based on is my own collection of well-being science from the world's top scientific journals. I pulled together nearly 500 scientific studies about happiness and well-being in my book Whacked Out. This course is based on the science in that book. So, if you like what you see here and want to know more, my book is one place for you to get additional information. I also developed full beach retreats in Costa Rica based on the science of happiness from this collection of research. You can come spend 8 days living and learning happiness science at Paradise Found Retreat, complete with learning to surf and learning some MMA. And finally, we've got a private Facebook group we invite you to join once you join this course, and you can have all of the discussion you want in that space.
Because this course includes my own collection of happiness science, it will be unlike other courses you may have taken on the topic. I'm sure there will be some overlap, but just as you don't expect the same course title to have the exact same content at different universities or even among different instructors within the same department, this course will have different content and a different approach from the others. That means this will only augment your previous knowledge on the topic, no matter how many courses you've already taken on the science of happiness and well-being.
I hope you join me!