Happiness-Matters in Midlife - for Professional Women
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#1.36 - The Science of Happiness - GGSC
Happiness-Matters in Midlife - for Professional Women
03/31/20 • 29 min
This week, we dip into how the University of Berkeley's Greater Good Science Centre researches and defines Happiness. We explore how Happiness and the related constructs of Gratitude, Empathy, Mindfulness, Wonder, Optimism, Affection and Self-Compassion fit into the Science of a Meaningful Life.
In a time of social distancing and self-isolation, coach Julia Seal focuses on 3 key happiness areas to help us through this time - as individuals and towards our societies and the greater good: Positive Emotion + Social Connection + Cooperation.
Firstly, we look at the essential role of Positive Emotion in our Happiness - from Joy, Gratitude and Mindfulness to Kindness, Self-Compassion and Tenderness - and how they open us up and change the boundaries of our minds and hearts. Then, we find out how taking advantage of the biochemical benefits of these positive emotions on our body and minds results in us being smarter on tests, more resilient in adversity, seeing "oneness" and even enhances cellular renewal in our bodies every day!
Next, we explore why our social connections, our "social capital" is one of the most important and enduring sources of Happiness, how our "ultrasociality" can even predict our happiness levels.
Dig deeper into Empathy and learn how to cultivate it in times of social distancing and even find out how to enhance the 10-part Empathy Circuit in our brains with Roman Krznaric's 6 Empathy Habits.
Lastly, we discover what "pro-social" behaviours and the science of Cooperation and Reconciliation have to do with our happiness. How we are wired for instinctive Cooperation and how Cooperation has the same effect in on our brain's Reward System as eating chocolate!
Lastly, Julia walks you through a new Coaching Tool - Awesome Awe Writing as a way to enhance your Happiness and expand feelings of Awe and Gratitude during difficult times.
" May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!"
All free Coaching Tools - https://happiness-matters.coach/free/
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Learn more at http://www.happiness-matters.coach or start coaching with us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/HappinessMattersCoach/
#2.3 Meditation – 3 Breaths to change everything in your Midlife
Happiness-Matters in Midlife - for Professional Women
02/23/21 • 26 min
Series 2 – Episode 3: MEDITATION – It’s the second corner piece for your Midlife Happiness Puzzle! We begin our exploration of all things Mindfulness & Meditation so that you can setup your own Practice, expand it & then establish it into your life, long term. We look at everything from simple but powerful Breathing Practices, Mindfulness & Mindful Meditation, Resting Meditation, the cultivation of compassion & loving-kindness as well as the deeper Insight Meditation – so much fun ahead!
Today, coach Julia Seal (& long term meditator) starts with the easiest – & most foundational of all practices when it comes to Managing our Brains with Mindfulness & Meditation – Breathing!
Yes... this simple hardly noticed automatic behaviour that we all have to do to stay alive is the start of our journey – our journey to go from being stuck in Midlife or suffering in emotional pain & confusion to our Midlife resilience, creativity, thriving – our Wholebeing Happiness – it’s that easy :-)
Julia walks you through a step-by-step process into how to start a Breathing Habit & then expand it into your life permanently, expanding on her free Coaching Tool: 3 Long Strong Breaths.
Also, find out why something so simple has such happiness power - what’s actually happening in your brain & why it works. Look into how to switch from stressed-out Beta brain waves to the Theta & Alpha waves of wakeful rest & relaxed attention. Also, how to reduce the stress hormones Cortisol & Adrenaline, flooding your brain & body with the Happiness hormones & neurotransmitters: Oxytocin, Dopamine, Endorphins & Serotonin.
If that’s not enough for you, you’ll discover “The Pause” that will make all the difference to your Menopause & beyond – a happiness secret ingredient that will transform your life, especially your Midlife relationships!
Join Julia here on the podcast to start living into your best life, today.
"May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!"
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#1.32 Discomfort change = Happiness!
Happiness-Matters in Midlife - for Professional Women
03/03/20 • 35 min
This week, coach Julia Seal dives into the topic of Change and Change Management as it applies to us and changing ourselves on our happiness coaching journey.
We explore why change is hard, why we believe "You can't teach an old dog new tricks" and we find out why it's just so difficult to stick to our goals, our New Year's Resolutions - why we're not like Billy Ocean's song "When the Going gets Tough..."!
Discover how we continue to add to our unhappiness and emotional suffering every day just by resisting the Reality of Change. How resisting the reality of impermanence, one of Buddha's 4 Noble Truths, gets us stuck in the Circle of Chaos and Pity City. Knowing how and why our brains resist change holds a key secret for us.
Then, find out why changing ourselves is actually NOT HARD > why we're actually good at it... and how to use our current change skills for our happiness coaching!
Use the discoveries in Neuroscience, led by William James and Michael Merzenich, to change how we think about our brains in change and how we can use this knowledge to further our self coaching.
Then... we "add wood to the fire" just as experienced meditators do, in order to understand why "getting used to being uncomfortable" is such a vital skill in your happiness - why "discomfort is the currency of your dreams.
Finally, learn how to coach yourself "over the edge" of your changing horizons by understanding the world of Edge Work from ORSC team coaching - Julia shares an example here from her own self-coaching around procrastinating her To-Do List.
And of course, learn more about how the Midlife transition of Menopause is your best opening for this work of change - your best time for metamorphosis, your best chance for deep Happiness, ever!
Lastly, Julia briefly wraps up the 17-part Negative Emotions mini-coaching journey within Series 1: Defining - Assessing - Visioning - just so we can see where we are before we embark on our next exciting step.
" May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!"
All free Coaching Tools - https://happiness-matters.coach/free/
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Learn more at http://www.happiness-matters.coach or start coaching with us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/HappinessMattersCoach/
#1.22 Happiness is 50:50, always!
Happiness-Matters in Midlife - for Professional Women
11/19/19 • 23 min
Discover with consultant-coach, Julia Seal, what the Happiness Wisdom Concept: Life is 50:50 is all about and how it is integral to your life, your happiness and success at work.
In this FOURTH step in HOW TO FEEL BETTER in the midst of your negative emotions, your Unhappiness, we explore how Emotional Balance applies to your life, your happiness and success.
Look at how the Chinese philosophical principle of Yin-Yang perfectly illustrates this fundamental ratio and what we can learn about ourselves from its inherent interdependency - and how this all ties together to The Happiness Paradox and The Happiness Treadmill.
We also probe into why you may want to keep your negative emotions, even when its seems counter-intuitive to your happiness!
Also, find out how other people's 50:50 Ratio and the "grass is greener on the other side" can be a Happiness Trap for you, while deepening your use of our free Coaching Tools to feel better in the moment.
There really is no better time to do this work together!
All free Coaching Tools - https://happiness-matters.coach/free/
Learn more at http://www.happiness-matters.coach or start coaching with us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/HappinessMattersCoach/
#1.7 Series 1 Coaching – it’s a wrap!
Happiness-Matters in Midlife - for Professional Women
08/06/19 • 21 min
We overview the entire Series 1's Coaching: Defining – Assessing - Visioning in order to bring it all together for you. By doing this we create a clear picture of this mini-coaching journey you’ve been on so far, with Julia Seal.
We go over the key topics covered in the last 12 episodes so you can see how all the concepts hang together in this phase of the Happiness-Matters coaching journey. You’ll discover what you missed or refresh what you heard once but didn’t yet get to practice.
We also look at the coaching tools we created for you as well as remind you of the quick coaching tips introduced at this early stage. You’ll see how these Coaching Tools work together to support you as you learn how to coach yourself.
You’ll be surprised and even intrigued at what shifts can take place in your life just through this first Happiness-Matters series.
All the episodes are referenced so it’s easy to go back, listen and download the free Coaching Tools.
There really is no better time to do this work together!
Learn more at http://www.happiness-matters.coach
or start coaching with us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/HappinessMattersCoach/
#1.5 What’s stopping your happiness & success?
Happiness-Matters in Midlife - for Professional Women
07/09/19 • 32 min
We begin the coaching process of mapping out your journey between where you are today and where you want to be in your 10/10 happy-and-successful at work. Together with Julia Seal, take a look at the happiness traps and obstacles you find along the way while taking caution from Cerberus and Charon on the banks of the River of Misery in Hades.
Harry Potter and Odysseus’ will give life to the possibility that your obstacles can become your stepping stones to success, your actual strategies of the path to follow as the quickest way to your Future Vision.
We examine these obstacle-strategies from two perspectives to shed light on the path ahead for you - are they internally or externally based and are they from your past or your future? This will guide us as to where we need to spend our time coaching.
And, we look at why coffee is high on the happiness at work list for so many of us!
There really is no better time to do this work together!
Learn more at http://www.happiness-matters.coach or start coaching with us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/HappinessMattersCoach/
#1.3.Q&A Where do you want to be – 10/10?
Happiness-Matters in Midlife - for Professional Women
06/18/19 • 11 min
Questions, Answers & Insights
We explore your questions and comments from Episode #1.3 – Where do you want to be – 10/10?
Hear what other listeners have discovered and take the opportunity to ask Julia Seal about her coaching tool, Your Future Vision, and how you can apply it to your happiness and success at work.
There really is no better time to do this work together!
To be included in these Q&A sessions on the podcast, post your questions and insights on our Facebook Coaching Group - https://www.facebook.com/HappinessMattersCoach/.
Alternatively, send them to Julia directly via our website https://happiness-matters.coach/ask/
#1.51.REVIEW - How Smiling & Laughter uncovers your Happiness & Unhappiness
Happiness-Matters in Midlife - for Professional Women
07/28/20 • 26 min
We’re taking a short break between series – this gives YOU a chance to catch-up on past episodes & ME a chance to sleep in! I’ve been up every morning at 5am for 16 months creating The Happiness-Matters Podcast :-)
But, I'm not leaving you without any coaching – in each week of the break we’ll revisit the go-to episodes for Series 1: Defining, Assessing & Visioning your Happiness.
Looking forward to being with you again in Series 2 - all about managing our brains for happiness & success in Midlife!
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Series 1: THIS WEEK’s FOCUS - Smiling & Laughing
We revisit Episode #1.8 which is the kick-off episode to the next 9 Insight coaching sessions focused around Smiling, Laughing and Self-Smizing.
Join me to explore how to use these topics to trigger your brain and expose those deeply held beliefs about your Happiness & Unhappiness. We also look into the relationship with yourself and how your Inner Critic shows up, especially when you do this coaching work!
This includes discovering more about the Duchenne Smile, Gelotology, the happiest poem ever, and what Emojis and the iconic Yellow Smiley Face have to do with your happiness!
- #1.8: Insight – What’s behind Smiley?
- #1.9: Emojis – your happiness at work?
- #1.10 - Smile Awhile
- #1.11: Insight – Laughter for work success
- #1.12 Self-Smizing Changes Everything (part 1)
- #1.13 Self-Smizing Changes Everything (part 2)
- #1.14 Q&A - Everything about Self-Smizing
- #1.15 - World Smile Day with coffee & Mad Hatters!
- #1.16 - Insight: Pay-It-Forward (1)
- All 56 podcast episodes, free tools & show notes HERE
- Overview Guide to Series 1 HERE
Find everything at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach
"May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!"
#1.61.REVIEW – Your Superhero:Shokunin vision for Happiness
Happiness-Matters in Midlife - for Professional Women
10/06/20 • 27 min
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We’re taking a short break between series – this gives YOU a chance to catch-up on past episodes & ME a chance to sleep in! I’ve been up every morning at 5am for 16 months creating The Happiness-Matters Podcast :-)
But, I'm not leaving you without any coaching – in each week of the break we’ll revisit the go-to episodes for Series 1: Defining, Assessing & Visioning your Happiness.
Looking forward to being with you again in Series 2 - all about managing our brains for happiness & success in Midlife!
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Series 1: THIS WEEK’s FOCUS – Your Superhero, Shokunin version of Happiness.
Review your self-coaching through Series 1 and what you’ve decided is your version of "happy & successful, no matter what". Sense-check it against the world of artisanal craftsmanship, the spirit of Shokunin, your own Inner Power & coach Julia Seal's free coaching tool, The Happiness Checklist. Tap into inspiration from Wonder Woman, the WHO One World:Together at Home concert, Damien Hurst's rainbows, Smile Awhile poetry, Thomas Jefferson & Wonder Woman.
All 56 podcast episodes, free tools & show notes HERE
Overview Guide to Series 1 HERE
"May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!"
Find everything at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1
#1.45.Q&A Work:Life Balance – the great divide!
Happiness-Matters in Midlife - for Professional Women
06/02/20 • 25 min
Today, let’s unpack two big questions for our happiness and success - The great Work:Life Divide: what is the debate really about? AND Work:Life Balance: does it even exist & do we want it?
In considering the Work:Life distinction, we look into current Workers’ Rights, including hours of work, flexi-time, Menopause policies and #TheRightToDisconnect. We draw some further insights from the Happiness Parenting Gap study and what we’re experiencing now through the Covid-19 pandemic as we all learn to #WorkFromHome.
By exploring these blurring boundaries and spillage as we chase high engagement productivity levels, we ask ourselves if Stanford University’s Ideal Worker archetype is even useful to us, especially in light of learnings from Jon Kabat-Zinn’s ground-breaking Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Programme.
Then, we dive into Work:Life Balance – does it even exist & do we want it? We look at balance in light of our mother’s kitchen scales & smooth-running Wheels of Life and how such useful coaching concepts can become instruments of our own torture!
We get to decide now if we really want to continue to buy into the Superwoman Complex or if there’s a better role model for you now in Midlife – especially with so many great woman leading the world today.
In our self-coaching we can ask ourselves more about what we want in our Midlife, how do we want to live inside, inside our heads and hearts, how do we want to show up in the world, how do we want to lead?
Perhaps we might want instead your own version of Artisanal Unbalance or something hilariously outrageous as poet Jenny Joseph describes in “Warning”?
"May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!"
All free Coaching Tools - https://happiness-matters.coach/free/
Subscribe to Julia's blog
Learn more at http://www.happiness-matters.coach or start coaching with us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/HappinessMattersCoach/
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The podcast is about Purpose, Meditation, Health & Fitness, Success, Happiness, Kindness, Motivation, Leadership, Neuroscience, Resilience, Creativity, Midlife, Women, Curiosity, Mental Health, Mindset, Trust, Transformation, Energy, Conflict, Podcasts, Self-Improvement, Education, Relationships, Habits, Menopause, Coaching, Coach and Longevity.
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The episode title '#1.49 – The Define, Assess & Vision Pieces of your Happiness Jigsaw' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on Happiness-Matters in Midlife - for Professional Women is 27 minutes.
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The first episode of Happiness-Matters in Midlife - for Professional Women was released on Mar 22, 2019.
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