9 Tips for Keeping Your Happiness!
Happiness is a tricky word, heavy with possibilities. It seems like we chase it down our whole lives, trying to get it to keep, to last and to grow. We want to be happy more than almost anything else, we pray for it and we change everything about ourselves for it, and yet, it is a slippery concept.
1. Lower the temperature
Most people equate happiness with a
summer vacation in some remote island paradise, but it turns out that a
snowy mountain in colorado may better improve your brain's mood.
Research conducted by Michigan university found that breathing cold air
through the nose enhances the mood much more than the effects a hot
burst of air has on our brain. So if you want to raise your mood, lower
the heat.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
2. Don't undervalue the power of nostalgy
Granma and grandpa may have known
what they were doing after all. According to Dan Botner, the author of
the book 'Thrive: Finding happiness the blue zones way', when we
exchange stories about our highschool prom or that trip we took as
children, we look at ourselves in a positive light and strengthen our
social links to the enviornment. In addition, he recommends decorating
the entirety of the house with photos and memorabilias from our history.
He claims that decorating our house with objects of emotional value is a
good way to connect with things that make us happy.
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
Alice Walker
3. Don't chew yourselves over and over
To think about past failures can be a
tempting thing, as we struggle to give them new meaning or to avoid
repeating past mistakes. But actually, this kind of mental behavior,
over time, can lead to a sense of helplessness. Research shows that this
is the quick road to depression. "You start with an obsessive thought
that clouds your mental clarity, and as a result you may lose your self
confidence and feel miserable." Says Suzan Hoxima, professor of
psychology at Yale. So instead of rethinking the same thought or event,
distract yourself with a movie, book or a new challenge.
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
Andre Maurois
4. Share the wealth
Many researchers have found that
giving money and resources to others make the person happier than if
they had spent it on themselves. The same thing goes for buying things
for others and not ourselves. So if you are going to a coffee shop with a
friend, offer to pay the bill. The profit will still be yours.
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
Albert Camus
5. Eat a snack around 2PM.
"Around this time, the levels of
serotonin (the chemical in the brain that helps set our mood), can
plummet," Says Eric Braverman, author of 'The edge effect'. Ideally, it
is better to choose a snack that offers essential nutrious energy, such
as B vitamins and complex carbs.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
6. Stay Moving
According to social psychologists,
excercizing 3 times a week for half an hour each time, may supply the
same benefits as some of the most powerful psychiatric drugs. Research
shows that in those 30 minutes of physical activity, the human body can
increase the production of neurotropic proteins in the bran, which have
an anti-depression effect. Yoga as well has relaxing effects for the
brain and the parasympathetic nervous system (the ones that calms the
body down).
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
George Bernard Shaw
7. Limit options
"When we make a choice, we usually
want the best for ourselves," says psychologist Barry Schwartz. This
means we tend to consider everything that we can do, which can be a
stressing burden. Schwartz maintains that every time we find ourselves
unable to move from the overbearing stream of possibilities, we should
try to cut down the options to a minimum and then make a quick,
non-apologetic choice. It is the conflicting that makes us feel low and
stressed.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Omar Khayyam
8. Start Baking.
Well, it doesn't have to be baking.
Hoola hooping or knitting will do the same, anything that will demand
100% of your attention while doing it. According to Minhaly
Csikszentmihalyi, professor of psychology and management in Claremont
University in California, "This will give your the kind of motivation
and focus that bring with them happiness."
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Charles Spurgeon
9. Make your bed
"In a research I conducted for a book
about happiness," tell us author Gretchen Robin, "making the best was
the number one change people testified made their day better." It turns
out people are happier when they complete small daily chores in their
lives. So if you don't have a maid doing it for you, check those little
way you can make your life more efficient and pleasant. Whether it's
making your bed, setting a doctor's appointment or water the plants.
Each day, try to complete one task that will make you happier.
Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
Napoleon Hill
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