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 desire 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 are unkind paired with negative feelings, I can ask myself this question to help change my thoughts.
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.
What is talking to myself in second or third person?
Volunteering, smiling at others, and donating are ways to be this.
What is kindness (or filling someone else's bucket)?
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 do what is meaningful even if it is difficult to achieve.
What is EUDAMONIC?
The practice of writing down three things we are grateful for and why we are grateful for them.
What is gratitude journaling?
All the different ways, both big and small, we express care, concern, and consideration for ourselves and those with whom we share the world.
What is kindness?
Our feelings or emotions influence or are influenced by these two things.
What are our thoughts and behaviors?