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This does make sense, our brains are hard-coded to perform acts of altruism and without doing it then we're not satisfying a need of our body. I suppose this de

This does make sense, our brains are hard-coded to perform acts of altruism and without doing it then we're not satisfying a need of our body. I suppose this depends largely on the person, some people get cranky with low blood sugar so I wonder if some people get cranky when they don't do nice things. Another interesting thing I've learnt on happiness is that you can make yourself happy (especially when you're sad) by simply smiling. I've heard numerous explanations as to why (the best is that performing the physical action causes the nerves to activate that cause you to smile when you are happy and in turn actually begin to make you happy) but I just know that it works.

wallflower 18y ago
"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. For what are your possessions but things you keep and guard for fear you may need them tomorrow?" from "The Prophet" by Kahlil Gibran
jscn 18y ago
In Neuro-Linguistic Programming (and hypnosis, I'm pretty sure), this is known as a "trigger". You can create arbitrary ones yourself by, e.g., touching yourself in a certain place (say touching the tips of your forefinger and thumb together) a couple times when a certain emotion occurs. After the trigger is set, touching the same place will trigger the emotion. (Kind of a simplistic explanation.)
- Ardit20 18y ago
  Isn't that conditional learning? Pavlov; stimuli, the dog salivates. Was not aware that hypnosis uses it though, sounds rather strange to me that hypnosis uses conditional learning.
  - jscn 18y ago
    Yeah it's basically the same thing. Hypnosis, as far as I can tell, is a grab bag of techniques (much like NLP) and anchoring/triggers is/are definitely used. For instance, some trance inductions involve interrupting a trigger/pattern before it can complete (i.e., the handshake interrupt). Anchoring a command or suggestion to a physical trigger can help cement it, too.

wallflower 18y ago

"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. For what are your possessions but things you keep and guard for fear you may need them tomorrow?" from "The Prophet" by Kahlil Gibran

jscn 18y ago

In Neuro-Linguistic Programming (and hypnosis, I'm pretty sure), this is known as a "trigger". You can create arbitrary ones yourself by, e.g., touching yourself in a certain place (say touching the tips of your forefinger and thumb together) a couple times when a certain emotion occurs. After the trigger is set, touching the same place will trigger the emotion. (Kind of a simplistic explanation.)

Ardit20 18y ago
Isn't that conditional learning? Pavlov; stimuli, the dog salivates. Was not aware that hypnosis uses it though, sounds rather strange to me that hypnosis uses conditional learning.
- jscn 18y ago
  Yeah it's basically the same thing. Hypnosis, as far as I can tell, is a grab bag of techniques (much like NLP) and anchoring/triggers is/are definitely used. For instance, some trance inductions involve interrupting a trigger/pattern before it can complete (i.e., the handshake interrupt). Anchoring a command or suggestion to a physical trigger can help cement it, too.