“Everything is interconnected. Gratitude improves sleep. Sleep reduces pain. Reduced pain improves your mood. Improved mood reduces anxiety, which improves focus and planning. Focus and planning help with decision making. Decision making further reduces anxiety and improves enjoyment. Enjoyment gives you more to be grateful for, which keeps that loop of the upward spiral going. Enjoyment also makes it more likely you'll exercise and be social, which, in turn, will make you happier.”
--UCLA Neuroscience researcher Alex Korb
Four Rituals that Make You Happy:
(in summary, and as suggested by science to date)
1. Be grateful.
2. Name negative emotions.
3. Make good enough decisions.
4. Touch people.
SOURCE: http://theweek.com/articles/601157/neuroscience-reveals-4-rituals-that-make-happy
Posts from This Journal by “happiness” Tag
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Poem: Why I Wake Early
Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who make the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding…
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Happy (the movie, made in 2011)
The Constitution only guarantees the American People the right to pursue happiness. YOU HAVE TO CATCH IT YOURSELF. --Benjamin Franklin…
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QotD: Contentment
Starting out, I thought life was terribly complex, and in some ways it is. But contentment can be pretty simple. - Anna Quindlen
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Be Transparent: When Others Understand They'll Like You
SOURCE: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23861354 Pers Soc Psychol Rev. 2013 Aug;17(3):248-72. doi: 10.1177/1088868313495593. Targeting the good…
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QotD: Relaxation-->Concentration-->Mindfulness
Having a relaxed mind is very useful in meditation. Relaxation is the foundation of deep concentration. When the mind is relaxed, it becomes more…
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Only Six Emotions
Happiness, sadness, surprise, fear, disgust and anger. I have to admit, I have seen all these emotions on the faces of nonhuman primates, and some…
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QotD: Crazy
We are all, to some extent, crazy. If you come to know any human being well enough, you eventually gain access to the basement where the traumas and…
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Going Light
Another person discovers that having too much stuff is a burden on one's life.…
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1968 Robert Kennedy speech on the GDP and on what really matters
I'm surprised I haven't heard this one before. It's short, and good. "For too long we seem to have surrendered personal excellence and community…
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