This is the second-last part in the series "Using Your Senses To Transform Your Life.”

Our sense of smell is 10,000 times more powerful than the other senses - merely a sniff of a smell can raise powerful emotions from your past. Fragrances have the power to cure one’s body, mind and soul. Maybe this is the explanation for the use of incense in churches and spiritual rituals.

​Just like finger prints, everyone has their own unique smell

​
​Your Sense of Smell

• Fragrances were made use of to heal the sick in historical Egypt. Frankincense detoxifies, myrrh is made use of to heal and draw in love, and Dragon's Blood is thought to attract love and inspire bravery and strength.
• Healing and mood-changing smells are found in cleansing soaps, shower gels, fragrance lamps and candles. 
• It is claimed that Cleopatra used fragrance to attract her lovers. 
• Building and construction firms in Japan use fragrance to de-stress their staff members. 
• During the Black Plague in Europe, it was discovered that perfumers were untouched by the dreadful disease.
• People are able to detect at the very least 1 trillion unique scents as discovered by scientists from Rockefeller University (posted in the journal Science)
• Your scent tissues are completely renewed each 30 to 60 days.
• One can smell fear and dislike. You can smell emotions of fear and dislike by means of sweat, and then afterwards you may experience the exact same feelings, according to a 2012 research study posted in the journal Psychological Science.
• Canines have almost 44 times more scent cells than people.
• Just like finger prints, everyone has their own unique smell.

If you struggle with heart disease, asthma, epilepsy or other chronic illnesses, consult your physician before using aroma therapies. Pregnant women and young children also need to be cautious with breathing in certain fragrances and should not try to self treat - even with aromas.

Some of uppermost enjoyable or pleasurable fragrances include vanilla, cinnamon, crayons, and cookies.

Search in your public library, best-loved book shop, or on-line to discover more of these kinds of treatments. I found some very handy essential oil inhalers available at ETSY, pictured below.
 
Aroma therapy can assist you put an end to stress at the end of a very long day, get you moving when you initially get up, stimulate perceptions of wellbeing, and a lot more - all with a simple scent!

Also Read: Using your Senses To Transform Your Life
Also Read: ​Your Sense Of Touch - MUCH more Powerful Than you Realise
Also Read: Get in touch With Your Soul By Using your Sense Of Sight
Also Read: Free Workbook: Transform Your Life With The Power Of Your Senses

There are many proven benefits that you can gain by keeping a gratitude journal. The time that you take to purposefully think and write down the parts of your life that fulfill you can pay substantial dividends. Research-based tips and your favorite pen can help you create a gratitude journal. Here are five tips for maintaining a gratitude journal.

​Here are five tips for maintaining a gratitude journal.

1) Make it a Routine Scientists have extensively studied the science behind creating habits. Keeping a gratitude journal as a way to feel happier, over the long term, has to be a part of a daily routine. Select a time to write in your journal and plant cues to remind yourself to write in it daily. Write in the journal often enough to create a habit, but not so often that you become immune to the impact. 
 
2) Write in Detail Writing in your gratitude journal shouldn’t be just another thing that you have to cross off your list. If you are approaching your gratitude journal in this way, your denying yourself the benefits that you can gain from the practice. Be present and conscious of the notations you are making. Be sure to journal in detail and think deeply about the things that have recently impacted your life. 

​Also Read 4 Remarkable ways gratitude will change your life

​Also Read: 5 Unexpected Health Benefits Of Gratitude 

3) Acknowledge the Negative You will never be able to escape the challenges of life altogether. Any number of difficulties can affect our feelings of gratitude. However, if we try to rush through these struggles, or fight to find gratitude, we can end up fueling emotions of defeat and anxiety. So, when you are facing challenges allow yourself to feel the negative. 
 
4) Uncover Gratitude in Unexpected Moments Challenge yourself to find gracious qualities in your life's more difficult events. The purpose of having a gratitude journal is to help you savor the fruits of life, but there is more gratitude that you can uncover. For instance, were you getting ready to leave for work only to find out your car has a flat? Find gratitude in the fact that you weren't driving the vehicle when the tire gave out.

Instant Download Gratitude Journal
 
5) Practice Gratitude for the Right Things People who are consumed with the accumulation of material acquisitions and wealth are less likely to be happy compared to those who are grateful for what they currently have, according to research. Rather than showing gratitude for the material things for the sake of ownership, focus on what you are afforded with those items. ​

​Keeping a gratitude journal will help you focus on the positives in your life and result in you being happier and overall, healthier. 

 This is Part THREE in the series "Using Your Senses To Transform Your Life.”
Utilising the Sense of Sight to Your Advantage Trough Nature

​Nature can cure, give one peace of mind, revitalize, restore, and motivate. A journey into the hills, woodlands or the seaside will allow you to take pleasure in these benefits as you look upon nature's beauty. Green is unwinding for the eyes and the color of Nature and wealth,  and the color green also rejuvenates nerves, blood circulation and the heart.
 
One do not need to have a special journey to achieve these advantages - just grow your own garden.
 
What you see in your very own garden also carries these benefits:  

• When you grow plants, you are getting in touch with your soul.
• When you weed your garden, you're eliminating needless luggage from yesteryear, regardless if they're habits or unfavorable emotions.
• Working in a garden helps remind us to be well-balanced and patient as we take a look at the altering of the seasons and the germination, development and death of plants. So too should we change and conform according to the time.

For even more benefits, consider these tips when planning and working in your garden:

For even more benefits, consider these tips when planning and working in your garden:

1. Select different colors that resonate with you. Select different colors that resonate with you. Give yourself added delight and peace by organizing your garden around your preferred colors. Encircle yourself with colours you enjoy and your garden can quickly become your "happy" place in which you can go to unwind, reflect, and clear yourself of your troubles.
   
2. Plant one thing you can eat – fruit, herbs, berries or vegetables.Plant one thing one can eat-- herbs, fruit, berries or vegetables. Consuming something you've grown on your own is very rewarding. It tastes a lot better than eating produce from a shop. Besides, it's much healthier and without chemicals.  
3. Give and receive. Give and receive. Motivate wild creatures like birds, frogs, butterflies, ants and slugs to explore your garden.

Do you know what your predominant sense is? 
​Download this free quiz below  determine your main sensory tendency.

Also Read: Using your Senses To Transform Your Life
Also Read: ​Your Sense Of Touch - MUCH more Powerful Than you Realise
Also Read: Free Workbook: Transform Your Life With The Power Of Your Senses
Also Read: 10 Incredible Facts About Your Sense Of Smell

Everyone wishes to improve something in their lives. This may vary anywhere from personal improvement, learning how to lead a happy life, or perhaps advancing his or her career.  This short article has some helpful ideas to get you started with personal development training.

​How to Lead a Happy Life: Interesting Truths About Personal Improvement  How It May Benefit You
 
The Art Of Happiness
 
People typically lose joy and happiness to stress and anxiety. Whenever we are becoming stressed out, it’s not only our minds getting impacted. Our whole physical bodies are. If we want to know how to lead a happy life and pursue our goals smoothly and systematically, we need to get rid of the tension inside our heads. Set up a time each day in which you can unwind, be just by yourself, and clear your thought and feelings. A calm, revitalized psyche is important to internal calmness and confidence.
 
Happiness Must-Have Audiobooks

Personal Development Training
 
Carry out some studying on personal improvement. Ensure you select books in line with your goals and select books that has gained good reviews.
 
Be prepared to jot down any thoughts you may get does not matter what the location. Carry a pen and notepad with you at all times or download a notepad app on your mobile phone. When an idea comes to mind, write it down, and whenever your feel creative later on, you can act upon it.
 
Recognize what your fundamental views are and live by all. Every person has ideas central to their way of self. If you live up to your standards in your every-day life, you will feel far better about yourself and the decisions you make. Enable your personal improvement journey to be moulded by your fundamental views. 

Concentrate on things you are good at, and work to strengthen those things. Look at each change you make as a long-term improvement to your lifestyle. 
 
Make every day a much better one than the last. Try to develop yourself continually. Regardless of what you accomplished yesterday, do it that far better today.
 
Except if you look after yourself, you cannot take care of anyone else. No matter what point you may be in on your life, it is essential to look after yourself.
 
There is only one thing you HAVE to do during personal improvement. You need to take an enthusiastic role in your own life, and not passively approve the things you are not happy with. Don't only be an onlooker in your own life, take charge, and be in authority over your life.

​Also Read: The Cornerstones Of Personal Success
 
Find out what other successful people have done that has made them a success. You can build on the routes they illumined and prevent the same missteps they made by learning how they reached success. By finding out about the various strategies that other individuals have made use of, you can remain motivated and inspired.
 
Taking a few modest risks might be the secret to your joy and happiness! 

Lots of people remain in their comfort zones to prevent failure, so they may not be as happy or satisfied as they could be. When you take a risk, you are proving for yourself that you possess courage, which is vital to the art of happiness.

​How to lead a happy life
The art of happiness
Become happy
Personal development training
Personal improvement

 This is Part TWO in the series "Using Your Senses To Transform Your Life.”

 
​Your Sense of Touch Is Much More Powerful Than You Realise

Your Sense of Touch

​Your Sense of Touch Is Much More Powerful Than You Realise - As French poet and film writer Jacques Prevert says, "Millions and millions of years would still not give me half enough time to describe that tiny instant of all eternity when you put your arms around me and I put my arms around you."
 
It really holds true. A hug is a transfer of positive energy. Hugging definitely makes a difference.

Think about these facts:

• Scientific research backs the fact that babies and children who are hugged frequently establish a sense of confidence, so vital for any type of success. In contrast to before, pediatricians are recommending parents to pick up their babies whenever they cry rather than saying to them to ignore them.
• Also touching (with no hugging) brings positive advantages. Therapists are starting to integrate touch into their treatments with their clients. It's a far cry from when the client stretched out on a sofa some distance off of the therapist.
• In a fascinating research study, librarians gently touched the hands of a number of students as they returned their library cards and stayed clear of touching others. The students who had been touched reported emotions that were much more favorable about the librarians, themselves and the library. The unconscious had detected the briefest contact which these students could not even remember.

Do you know what your predominant sense is? 
​Download this free quiz below  determine your main sensory tendency.

​Also Read: Using your Senses To Transform Your Life
Also Read: Get in touch With Your Soul By Using your Sense Of Sight
Also Read: Free Workbook: Transform Your Life With The Power Of Your Senses
Also Read: 10 Incredible Facts About Your Sense Of Smell

​In an interesting study, librarians lightly touched the hands of some students as they handed back their library cards and avoided touching others. The students who had been touched reported feelings that were more positive about the librarians, themselves and the library. Thesubconscious had picked up on the briefest contact which these students couldn’t even recall.
 
Thus interact and touch someone! You'll be happy you did!

The Science of Hugging

How To Relax When Life Is Out Of Control?

With the new year in front of us, many people may ask this question - Just how to relax when life is out of control. The best answer to this question is to concentrate on growing new habits which will help you relieving stress and promote harmony in your life - This worksheet is designed to help you cultivating specific habits that will relieve stress and promote harmony, where ever you go.

​Our habits influence our health, happiness, and future.
 
Answer the following questions on the free downloadable worksheet to gain a better perspective of your own personal habits.

 This is the first post in a new series - "Using Your Senses To Transform Your Life.” Most of us probably assume that we make use of all 5 our senses each and every day, but take another look. Do you think that you use them to their fullest potential?

Leonardo da Vinci, the great Renaissance painter and sculptor, said that the average person looks without seeing, listens without hearing, and talks without thinking. Doesn’t this describes most of us?
 
Follow these series if you would like to discover the full potential of your senses and how you can use them for powerful self improvement which will lead to happiness, healing, and greater life fulfilment. 
 
See how one may fine tune your senses  to make much more sense of the world. After all, you are the writer of your own story, and your perception creates your own world.

Do you know what your predominant sense is? 
​Download this free quiz below  determine your main sensory tendency.

For 5 weeks, we will focus on one sense each week. For instance, week one you could pay particular attention to everything you see that week. Do not then pay to much attention to your other four senses in your “sight” week. In a "touch week" focus on feeling various textures, and so on. 
 
Perform this exercise over the next 5 weeks, concentrating on a different sense each week.
 
Repeat this exercise from time to time to stay in touch with all of your senses so you can reap the very most benefits from all five of them. 

Week 1:  Your Sense Of Hearing

The Art of Listening
 
True listening has the power of transforming relationships on a majestic scale. It can make the difference between a failed and a successful career. How well you listen in the same way affects your relationships with your family members and friends. 
 
Try these tips to fine tune your listening skills:

• Look at the person speaking. Show your interest by attentively leaning forward. Make sure that you maintain eye contact and stop with whatever it is that your re doing listen to this person.
• Do not become distracted by your phone, the tv or anything else while you are listening.
• You have to show your interest from time to time by nodding or saying “really?” or “I see what you mean."  
• Do not plan what you are going to say next while the speaker is talking. Let him or her finish first before you consider your reply.
• Exhibit self-control and avoid being judgemental while the person is speaking. If what the person said makes you angry first count to ten and think about an objective response before saying a a thing.
• Make sure you understood what they said by summarising “so you are saying...”  and wait with your questions while the other person is speaking.

​Research has long shown that music enhance brain power, health, and a general sense of well-being. This phenomenon is known as “The Mozart Effect.”

Improve Creativity and Focus With the Music of Mozart

Mozart’s music, in particular the "Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major", has been shown to boost brain power.
 
Dr. Alfred Tomatis discovered the Mozart Effect in the late 1950's while he was experimenting with the effects of Mozart’s music on autistic children. By 1990, the method had been adopted worldwide. It was also found that Mozart’s music is also beneficial in reducing the negative effects of epilepsy.  
 
Classical music relieves stress and is shown to improve your body’s immune system. Mozart’s compositions and Baroque music like Bach that is 50 to 80 beats per minute also enhances a person’s focus by inducing the Alpha state brain waves which is ideal for learning and reading. ​

Also Read: Using your Senses To Transform Your Life
Also Read: ​Your Sense Of Touch - MUCH more Powerful Than you Realise
Also Read: Get in touch With Your Soul By Using your Sense Of Sight
Also Read: Free Workbook: Transform Your Life With The Power Of Your Senses
Also Read: 10 Incredible Facts About Your Sense Of Smell

What About ​Cultivating positive habits?

You must have seen how some people just seem to have the knack of getting things done. They will say a thing like, 'I am going to begin exercising next year', and they do! However when you try, it's a different story. You stay with it awhile and then in some way it all falls flat. It can really easily make you discouraged and disheartened. You need to create good habits that stick, to inspire you. 

1. Begin small
Many people wish to plunge in at the deep end and change things over night, but if you wish to succeed, it is best to start small and increase because sustaining positive habit does take a great deal of willpower. Research shows that willpower resembles a muscle, once you use it, it burns out, and when it's tired it needs to stop. The solution is to start small without using a lot of willpower. So if its exercises we're discussing, rather than embarking on 50 pushups a day, start with five. Always establish your habit behavior first, not increasing the amounts until what you have started becomes a natural part of you.

2. Get linked to your good habit
Maybe you've started a project at the office and worked doggedly on it. You type of don't wish to let it go as you think about it as 'yours'. But we can use this mindset to our advantage, as a visual reminder of the investment you have made in your good habit. It's a great idea to get a calendar, with a marker alongside it, marking the date you started and watching its progress-- with the intention of never breaking the chain.

3. Are your objectives clear?
Being serious regarding your new positive habits means eliminating non-serious intentions. Research, once more, shows that you are a lot more likely to complete if you have analyzed your plans beforehand and you know exactly what you will do and when. It's no good saying, 'I think I will exercise 3 times a week'. You need to actually start making it happen, otherwise, you won't hack it. It is a good help if you plan your goals beforehand using a detailed goal planner.

​4. Rejoice in victories
When you are managing yourself well with your positive habits, reward yourself. Rewarding yourself releases good-feeling chemicals in the brain, feelings of pride and pleasure. It equips you to continue with your good habits and create bigger wins later on.

​Also Read: How To Keep Focus On Long Term Goals 

5. Create your own surrounding
Lot of times, our environment is what drives our behavior. Create your environment and shape it to support your positive habits. Each of your new habits will require energy to do it done and the more energy and action need to follow it through causes a person to become less likely to complete with it. Maybe, rather than finishing a book, you rather watch TV. Now place your book where the TV is and move the TV to another room. Get the drift? It's creating the right environment so you can promote the change.

6. Supporters will support you
People whom you stay with or whom you come into contact everyday with can influence on your behavior a lot. As an example, if your best friend ends up being overweight, you increase the risk of turning into obese yourself by as much as 57%! Research and experience show us that we type of feel similarly and even act sometimes the same as individuals we spend a great deal of time with. That means you need to be with the same type of people who think like you. If you want positive things to happen in your life, you can't surround yourself with pessimists. You need positive people around you who make you feel positive and act positively.
​
7. Be responsible
Regretfully, 99% of people who set adventurous goals don't execute them because they don't plan them out. You can't be responsible for positive changes and habits if you have not thought, prepared for and put them into motion. A goal without consequences is just wishful thinking. You need to make favorable goals and put stakes on your new habits to hold your own self responsible. Setting positive goals, and achieving them requires energy, dedication, and self-control, plus some truly hard work. Do you have what it takes?

​Also Read: Be Passionate about Your Goals and Do Not Quit 

While dealing with the stress and demands of our every day lives, it could be demanding to stop and consider what we are thankful for in our lives. When you can stop and show thankfulness for what you have, you will certainly experience incredible advantages. Here are 5 ideas for growing gratitude and increasing your overall joy and happiness.

Here are 5 ideas for growing gratitude and increasing your overall joy and happiness.

Pause and look around
An easy way to develop a habit of thankfulness is to take a second during your day and ask yourself what you could be grateful for in your life, and also who are the individuals that you could be grateful for to have in your life and why. Nevertheless, do not get hung up on the numbers, if you can just think about a single person, that's okay. The crucial thing to keep in mind is to take a couple of seconds and think of what you're grateful for in your life.

Have a look at yourself
Have a look at yourself and keep in mind your self-gratitude does not need to only have to do with your accomplishments, but can also have to do with the qualities you have.

Downloadable gratitude poster

​Take into account What You Take for Granted
You do not need to only concentrate on the huge and noticeable factors that you need to be thankful for in your life. Also, think of the much smaller things that you need to be thankful for. Opening up your eyes to the little, everyday things that you need to value allows you to enjoy more of the uncomplicated charm in life.

Do this Early or Late
The only way you will create a habit of thankfulness is to stay with it and not permit it to turn into one of those things that you forget. To make gratitude a routine, it is most ideal to take a minute in the early morning and find 3 things, big or little, that you are thankful for in your life. Then, every evening, devote a couple of mins jotting down 3 to 5 things that you are grateful for about your day.

Reveal Your Gratitude
In order to really increase your joy and happiness, you need to share your gratitude. Make other individuals in your life happier by demonstrating how you are thankful for having them in your life. Not only may this put a smile on their face, but it may also make you happier.

It does not need to take a lot of time or energy to make gratitude a routine. Taking even tiny steps to show your gratitude can increase your happiness.