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 to talk to someone is one way to do this.
What is one way to make 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 well-being.
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 we are thankful for and why.
What is gratitude?
It is empathy AND the action to help someone.
What is compassion?
A mindfulness practice to explore food through your senses.
What is mindful eating?
They are Essential (who we are), Effortless (come naturally), and Energizing (gives us energy).
What are Signature Strengths?
What it means to see something from another person's point of view.
What is perspective?
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?
This strategy allows us to take in all our senses as a way of bringing calm to a situation.
What is grounding, or the 5-4-3-2-1 strategy?
These are students who go out in the school community and do kind things for others without announcing their actions.
What are Secret Kindness Agents?
This is an activity that can support happiness and well-being that we discussed on this last day of class.
What is exercise?
What is sleep?
What is nutrition?
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?
When a person really takes some time to appreciate a positive moment.
What is savoring?
The belief that intelligence and other qualities, abilities, and talents can be improved with effort, learning, and dedication over time.
What is growth mindset?
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.
What is cyclic sighing?
This type of therapy includes the components of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?