Clare Josa | Author And Keynote Speaker

UK's Foremost Imposter Syndrome Expert, International Keynote Speaker & 8x Author

Clare Josa

Too angry to take a deep breath?

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“A single word spoken in anger can undo thousands spoken in kindness.“

We’re all human and we all get angry at times…

It’s easy to snap at people, when we’re feeling stressed or angry. But that angry retort can cause pain and confusion and may even cause long-term damage to the relationship.

There’s an easy way to hold back, to allow more resourceful, kinder words to come out. And you don’t need a therapist to help you do it!

Whenever you feel you’re about to respond to someone angrily, simply take a deep breath in from your belly, pause for a moment, and breathe out fully through your nose. (If you do it through your mouth it can sound like a sigh which might not go down well!) As you breathe out, imagine the tension leaving your body.

By taking this deep breath, it helps you relax, can dissolve tension and will help you consider your words, rather than going with an auto-pilot angry response.

If you get a chance to try this one out, how about sharing your experiences via the blog comments?

Wishing you a day full of sunshine and laughter.

Namaste,

Clare

P.S. Sorry about the teporary absence of Daily Sunshine at the end of last week. We’re back now!

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Why It's Cool To Be An April Fool

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“Having a strong sense of the ridiculous keeps you sane.”

April Fools’ Day today traditionally sees silly news stories and practical jokes. And it’s a great reminder to us, not to take life too seriously.

Happy April Fools' Day!
Happy April Fools' Day!

The jokes might be subtle today, or more outragious. Either way, being able to laugh at life and enjoy the ridiculous helps keep you young at heart and feeling happpier.

What have been your favourite April Fools’ Day jokes today? How about sharing them via our April Fools’ Day comments box?

And you might enjoy our post on laughing, which includes 3 videos that we think inspire totally contagious laughter!

Wishing you a day full of sunshine and laughter.

Namaste,

Clare

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Spread A Smile Day 26th April 2010

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Smiles are contagious, yet how often do we consciously spread them?

Spread A Smile Day is about deliberately spreading a ray of sunshine around the world, by smiling at as many people as we can – and hopefully collecting a few smiles, too!

Of course, you don’t have to wait until then to smile!
(Check out our article 7 Great Reasons To Smile 🙂 ).

Are you ready to spread smiles on April 26th?
Are you ready to spread smiles on April 26th?
It’s on Monday 26th April 2010.

Watch the video, to find out more.

Please feel free to invite your friends, to help spread this smile around the world!

If you’re up for joining in, you can either sign up to the Spread A Smile Day event page on Facebook or write in the comments box, at the bottom of this page.

Please share this post by Twitter and Facebook, if you’d like to tell your friends about it!

Thousands of people joined in with International Spread A Smile Day in 2009 and here are some of the things they got up to:

  • “I awoke smiling. I’ve smiled at everyone so far. even people in their cars.”
  • “I’ve been smiling at complete strangers – and they’ve been smiling back. It’s such a cool feeling!”
  • “I work in a Phlebotomy clinic, so not many people feel like smiling when they’re anticipating pain! It’s amazing though, standing there and smiling at the people in the waiting room and watching a mini wave happen and they respond in kind.”

Do You Need A Good Laugh?

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Do you need a good laugh?My lovely friend, Yamuna Loyal, is a firm advocate of laughter.

As a sound therapist, she knows the benefits it can bring. She has even developed a fab process of clearing out energy blocks in the body, through laughter.

She, like many others, are telling us that laughter can indeed be the best medicine.

The thing is that we often take life FAR too seriously.

We get lost in the sea of “to do” lists, hurrying from one appointment to the next, fretting about things that may never even happen.

Time to laugh?
Time to laugh?

I recently read some research that claimed an infant will laugh up to 200 times per day. By the time we’re adults, we’re lucky to manage 10.

What’s going on?

Isn’t it time to lighten up?!

The problem with being constantly stressed and worrying is that:

  • It’s bad for our health
  • It reduces our ability to think clearly
  • It makes us less efficient
  • It takes the joy and spark out of life
  • It leads to more worry and stress

The funny thing about laughing is that:

  • It’s contagious – once one person starts, it spreads around a room
  • It transforms everyone it touches. You CANNOT laugh and feel miserable at the same time
  • It releases endorphins, (or little dolphins, as my friend’s son used to say!) into your bloodstream, giving you a very natural high
  • The endorphins reduce your stress levels and have been scientifically shown to reduce the symptoms of illness
  • Laughter shifts your thoughts to a more positive vibe, so your day improves, exponentially

And the great thing is that we could choose to spend our day laughing our way through our tasks, just as easily as grumping!

So, to inspire you and give you a helping hand towards laughing-out-loud-till-you-cry-type-belly-laughs, here are 3 videos I’ve found that contain infectious laughter.

Hopefully you’ll find, as you watch them, that you can’t help but join in.

Laughter really is an amazing healer!

How about starting your own laughter collection? Videos? YouTube? Funny books? Anything that makes you laugh out loud! Got some good resource ideas? Please share them via the comments box!

We’re going to be collecting a YouTube playlist of our favourite laughter videos, so make sure you have subscribed to our Beyond Alchemy YouTube channel, to catch them all!

Wishing you a day full of sunshine and laughter,

Clare x

It doesn’t matter if you don’t speak German, this weather presenter’s laughter is contagious!

Weather Presenter With Contagious Laughter

This baby’s laugh is wonderful. Guaranteed to bring a ray of sunshine to your day!

Laughing baby

And for something different, how about laughing yoga?!!

Laughing yogis

Please do share your favourite laughter tips via the comments box!

If At First You Don’t Succeed…

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“If at first you don’t succeed, try something different?”

How often in life do we “try, try, try again”?

One of my favourite places to spot this behaviour is the London underground.

Regular commuters place their Oyster cards on the card reader at the barriers. Tourists then copy this behaviour with their standard tickets, but can’t get through, because they need to put their ticket through the ticket reader slot. Instead of trying something different, looking around for another behaviour that might work or asking for help, they just keep placing their ticket on the Oyster reader, expecting each time that the barrier will miraculously open.

The look of confusion and disbelief on their faces is priceless… (Yes, I do eventually go over and offer to help 😉 )

The problem is usually that we “try” the same thing, over and over again, expecting different results each time. It is said that it’s a sign of insanity, yet we’re all doing it, whether it’s in trying to achieve our goals or handling reltaionships!

It’s a classic mind trick!

Maybe it’s because someone told us to do it that way. Or perhaps it’s a strategy we learnt when young.

Fact: if what we’re doing isn’t working, keeping on doing it is unlikely to produce the result we want.

Is there something in your life right now that might benefit from a different approach?

Feel free to share your thoughts via the comments!

Wishing you a day full of sunshine and laughter.

Namaste,

Clare

P.S. This article is courtesy of The Little Book Of Daily Sunshine – want some more? www.DailySunshine.com

Are You Too Hung Up On Feeling Happier?

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“Take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.“

P. D. Stanhope

It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the task of feeling happier.

Sometimes, knowing the challenges we face day-to-day and longer term, the idea of always trying to stay positive and think uplifting thoughts can put us off from even trying.

Yet how different would it be if we only focused on feeling happier for the next minute?

Just sixty seconds. A bit less pressure?

Then we could move on to the next minute. And the next one.

And before you know it… 🙂

Wishing you a day full of sunshine and laughter.

With love,

Clare x

This article is courtesy of The Little Book Of Daily Sunshine – to find out more : www.DailySunshine.com

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