Thoughtful Ramblings

Perspective - how we see things. At the moment the media is in a frenzy over the behaviour of the Australian Cricket Team. What they did was wrong and there should be repurcussions. But I'm over the constant coverage and the keyboard warriors who think they can throw stones from behind a newspaper article or computer screens.  However what really irks me is that this controversy pales into insignificance compared to the many injustices we see around the would that seem to be forgotten and are actually affecting the lives of so many people not just a privileged few. There are millions of people whose lives are at risk from war, famine and natural disaster. There are women and children suffering because of our inaction. There are people kept in appalling situations by governments, including our own, in immigration detention, and people living in poverty and homelessness. These get scant coverage by the media and are often dismissed by the community in general. I like my sport. Thos...

Psalm 118:24 NET This is the day the LORD has brought about. We will be happy and rejoice in it. Happiness is a choice we make, a decision that stems from our will and not from our emotions. Last Saturday we heard from Jodie Cooper a local positive psychology coach about what constitutes happiness. Here's a snippet of what we learnt about happiness. 10% of happiness comes from our circumstances, but the happiness that is wrought by a change in our circumstances wears off after 3 months. Interesting given how often we think a change in circumstance will change how happy we are. 50% of happiness is genetically predisposed (inherited) but, because of epigenetics and the role of 'switches' to turn genetic expression on we now know that even if there is a genetic predisposition towards unhappiness that does not mean the 'switch' will automatically turn on. (We could talk about this for a long time but suffice to say that it's how we choose to react to things tha...