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Something You Should Know

How Your Body Affects Your Happiness & Good News for Self-Critics and Perfectionists

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

Science, Social Sciences, Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness

4.64K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

At airports all over the world, luggage gets lost – sometimes forever. So, what happens to it? It can’t sit there in baggage claim forever. Well, in the U.S. a lot of the lost luggage makes it way to a place in Alabama and the contents of that luggage can be yours for a price. Listen as I explain. https://www.unclaimedbaggage.com You have heard people say, “Happiness is a state of mind.” But it also might be a state of body. There is some wonderful news about how what you do with your body can significantly affect your level of happiness. In fact, your body is constantly sending messages to your brain about what it is experiencing which in turn affects what you think and how you feel. This is according to my guest, Janice Kaplan. She is a journalist and former editor of Parade magazine – and she is author of the book What Your Body Knows About Happiness (https://amzn.to/49XpSFj) It appears that a lot of people walk around with a nagging sense they aren’t good enough – that they are not living up to their potential, that they should be doing better. If that sounds familiar, you need to hear my guest, Ellen Hendriksen. She is a clinical psychologist at Boston University's Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders whose work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Psychology Today, among others. She is here to reveal some fascinating insight into how feeling like you are not good enough is really a form of perfectionism. And she has some great suggestions to help anyone break free of all that self-criticism. Ellen is the author of How to Be Enough: Self-Acceptance for Self-Critics and Perfectionists (https://amzn.to/49YfIo6). Most of us accumulate a lot of receipts. For every purchase, there is a receipt. Often, we feel compelled to keep them but is that really necessary? Listen as I reveal which receipts to hold on to and which ones you can toss out. https://www.lifehack.org/articles/featured/receipts-which-to-keep-and-which-to-pitch.html PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS!!! SHOPIFY:  "Established in 2025". Has a nice ring to it, doesn't it? Sign up for a $1 per-month trial period at https://Shopify.com/sysk . Go to SHOPIFY.com/sysk to grow your business! HERS: Hers is changing women's healthcare by providing access to GLP-1 weekly injections with the same active ingredient as Ozempic and Wegovy, as well as oral medication kits. Start your free online visit today at https://forhers.com/sysk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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slash setup today on something you should know what happens to all the lost

0:35.9

luggage at the airport that never gets claimed.

0:38.3

Then, what you do to your body can affect your mood and happiness.

0:43.3

For example,

0:44.3

It turns out that we're happier in blue spaces near water and in green spaces when we're outside.

0:50.3

There's a psychologist out of the UK who found that two hours a week spent near the

0:56.5

water actually improves your well-being quite dramatically. Also, why most receipts you keep,

1:03.1

you could probably throw away. And understanding the feeling of perfectionism and what it's

1:08.7

really trying to tell you. The word perfectionism is actually a misnomer.

1:13.6

Instead of striving to be perfect, it's really about never feeling good enough, especially

1:18.6

in the context of an ever more competitive culture.

1:21.6

It makes sense that we respond with the feeling that we're not good enough.

1:26.6

All this today on Something You Should Know.

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