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" Studies show when people yell, they get themselves even angrier. Interesting factoid: If you and/or your partner's heartbeat becomes higher than 100 beats per minute during an argument, you will not be able to fully understand/process what the other is saying. "

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" If you feel sick and tired of how things are in your life, chances are it's because you're making yourself sick and tired - by engaging in too many energy leaking things. "

Karen Salmansohn

Yourself

You

Tired

" In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk. "

" I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself! "

Karen Salmansohn

Emotional

Pain

" Religious people are simply following major core practices of happy people. For example, one benefits from the guaranteed social support that can be found in a church, synagogue, or mosque. "

" When you feel bad on the inside, you wind up wanting to do things to make others feel bad. In contrast, when you feel happy on the inside, you want to do things to make others feel happy. "

" I'm lucky I live near Whole Foods... so if I'm hungry, I can walk in there and grab something yummy... already made... or make it myself. I love to cook. I make a killer marinara sauce. "

" A lot of people love to do affirmations first thing in the morning - to keep themselves feeling peppy and positive. "

" It seems every morning I wake up to face a list of 20 things to do, with time only to do 10, and somehow I always wind up squishing in 30. "

" Nothing in your past is in your present making you do anything you don't choose to do. You are not your past history! You are not your past failures! You are not how others have at one time treated you! You are only who you are and what you do now in this moment. "

" I believe a lot of what contributes to the sadness and downward-spiraling in our lives is a sense of hopelessness. We become resentful when circumstances aren't unfolding as we want, leading us to doubt whether we will ever get what we want. "

" I'm a big believer that your life is basically a sum of all the choices you make. The better your choices, the better opportunity to lead a happy life. "

" Stop bragging about your lack of sweat and effort in achieving your goals. Start bragging about how hard you work, how patient you've become. "

" Over time, we amass limiting beliefs about how life supposedly is - beliefs that are not valid. Then we allow these limiting beliefs to stop us from fully living our happiest lives. "

Karen Salmansohn

Time

Stop

" Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through. "

" I'm doing my best to mindfully raise my son to feel safe and encouraged to express himself. "

" Indeed, many of life's most fun and pleasurable choices come with potential dangers. It's important for my son to grow up recognizing that what might appear exciting or inviting at first glance could also have eventual negative consequences. "

" I believe we create a lot of problems in our relationships if we don't feel safe to talk about our feelings at the speed of life. "

" Power might feel tasty and good in the moment, but it will never be satisfying, never fill you up. Yep, no matter how much power you get, you will always feel empty. You just keep wanting more and more power. "

" Not only are police officers often taken for granted, many people are highly vocal about their dislike for cops. "

" I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones. "

" You're not looking for perfection in your partner. Perfection is all about the ego. With soulmate love, you know that true love is what happens when disappointment sets in - and you're willing to deal maturely with these disappointments. "

" A soulmate is someone who you could spend a great deal of time with just sitting on a sofa and feel happy. You don't need fanfare. You don't need to go out to expensive restaurants. "

" I admit that when challenging times first surface, it's not first instinct to do a happy dance. But when you take time to pause and add insight to injury, you will immediately start to feel empowered to make those majorly needed life shifts. "

" Personally, I believe people who have a lots of memories are people who are living with zest. "

" Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth. "

" If your partner is consistently unhappy, it won't matter if they're incredibly sexy, wildly funny, impressively successful, adorably charismatic - your relationship will be weighed down under the heaviness of their moods. "

" Only allow yourself to think negative thoughts and/or complain about anything for three minutes, three times a day. "

" I believe you can never fail in life or love. You just produce results. It's up to you how you interpret those results. "

" The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone. "

" Each day, you can awake and focus on small, easy goals you can accomplish in the short term - goals that, over time, will lead you to your long-term goal. "