Happiness
The list includes heart health, ability to combat stress, stronger immune system, healthier lifestyle, reduction of pain, and a longer life.
What are the positive health outcomes of happiness?
The brain’s ability to adapt and form new neural connections in response to new experiences.
What is NEUROPLASICITY?
Being in the moment without judgment.
What is MINDFULNESS?
Putting down our phone is one way to do this.
What is making a social connection?
The ratio of these types of feelings should outweigh the number of negative feelings individuals experience in order to have happiness and wellbeing.
What are positive feelings?
Work by Sonja Lyubomirsky in 2005 indicated 40% of this contributes to happiness.
What are our own actions?
This behavior includes the components of empathy and compassion.
What is KINDNESS?
We acknowledge what is good and that what is good doesn't have to be that way.
What is gratitude?
It is empathy AND the action to help someone.
What is compassion?
A mindfulness and meditation tool to practice self-kindness.
What is R.A.I.N.?
They are Essential (who we are), Effortless (come naturally), and Energizing (gives us energy).
What are Signature Strengths?
This is a bump in the road to happiness that means predicting our future emotions or feelings.
What is AFFECTIVE FORCASTING?
When I am having thoughts that lead to negative feelings, I might reframe my thoughts. This question might be asked to help me create that reframed thought.
What would I say to a friend?
Understanding of another person's feelings or situation and imagining what it might be like to experience those things yourself.
What is empathy?
When using the R.A.I.N. strategy, this is when you name the feeling or emotion you are experiencing.
What is recognize?
This contains the cue, response, and reward, which we can use to build new healthy behaviors for our wellness.
What is the habit loop?
This is a bump in the road of happiness that means to get used to pleasant or unpleasant sensations, experiences, etc.
What is HEDONIC ADAPTATION?
I can talk to myself this way as a method of perspective taking, particularly if I am ruminating on a topic. For example, I might say, "Mandy, you can do this!"
What is talking to myself in second or third person?
This is a type of mindset in which someone might say, "I'll never be good at this."
What is fixed mindset?
It is important not to suppress these. An example of this is much like when you push a beach ball under the water, it pops back up.
What are feelings or emotions?
The belief that intelligence and other qualities, abilities, and talents can be improved with effort, learning, and dedication over time.
This component of happiness means striving to experience meaning and purpose.
What is EUDAMONIC?
The practice of writing down three things we are thankful for and why.
What is gratitude journaling?
This is a type of breathing during which a person breathes in, pauses part way through, and then exhales. It was found to be the most effective breathing strategy in a published 2023 article.
What is cyclic sighing?
This type of therapy includes the components of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?