Feeling bummed? Track yourself on Facebook!

All Facebook profiles you can peep at from time to time, your ex, your frenemy from high school, your shot of lightning from college who is getting married today to some rando total - there is a single page, you should check out much more often: your own.

That said, if you want a huge boost believes self-esteem. (uh... who doesn't?)

According to researchers at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, for just five minutes looking at your own Facebook page can up to your trust. After participants study to track themselves on the site, researchers have seen that people were more likely to associate positive adjectives with words like 'me' and 'I '.

A bit of sense if, right? At least, I know that my Facebook page shows almost only the best parts of my life: picnic on the beach with my man, evenings girls with my BFF, career achievements, try out them to be funny status updates - not to mention the photos where I look my best. See my life through all this pink filter makes it seem like I totally did it.

Interestingly, the study also found that people therefore amplified over their own lives that they did not actually perform also on a math test given to them as part of the experiment. (Researchers said that all these good vibrations gave way to less incentive to try to really shine on the review).

Therefore, verification of your profile at any time fully will make your most impressive sensation - but don't let give you a complex.

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Not Feeling So Nice? Try Compassion Training.

It's hard to admit this, but sometimes I can be kind of a B. Maybe I had a bad day, maybe I haven't eaten in the last three hours...but in any case, I've been known to snap at my man or give the side-eye to the woman taking forever in the grocery checkout line from time to time. Not. Cool.

But, apparently, harnessing one's chi to be a little bit more patient, compassionate, and more pleasant to be around in general is actually pretty easy, at least according to new research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

In the study, researchers asked participants to practice a Buddhist technique called "compassion meditation," in which they repeated compassion-focused phrases directed at four people—someone they love, someone they can easily be compassionate toward (like a family member), a stranger, and someone they tend to butt heads with (like a frenemy).

In just seven hours of training, people were more apt to help others they didn’t know and brain scans showed that they had also become more empathetic as well.

"It's kind of like weight training," says Helen Weng, lead author of the study. "Using this systematic approach, we found that people can actually build up their compassion 'muscle' and respond to others' suffering with care and a desire to help."

Pretty cool, right? So, the next time you're feeling a mean streak coming on, try repeating the phrase that the people in the study used for their meditation: "May you be free from suffering. May you have joy and ease." If anything, it may help you cool your jets a little.

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