Happiness Research
Is the glass half full or half empty? The question is whether this affects your life. There is much evidence that it does.
Martin Seligman approaches psychology from the point of what is right with healthy people. The first book of his that I read was What You Can Change and What You Can't. With that I saw a whole new way of looking at the world. His focus is on what is positive. In fact, the University of Pennsylvania even has a Positive Psychology Center.
You can learn to be happier. You can be more engaged with life. You can have more fun. In other words, you too can learn to be alive! Some of us do have to learn that.GetHappy.net
What are the basics of being happy?
Dr. Michael Fordyce has a great site, gethappy.net. Try it. He lists fourteen fundamentals of happiness. Here is the list to give a flavor of his research:
- Be more active and keep busy.
- Spend more time socializing.
- Be productive at meaningful work.
- Get better organized and plan things out.
- Stop worrying.
- Lower your expectations and aspirations.
- Develop positive, optimistic thinking.
- Get present oriented.
- WOAHP, Work on a healthy personality
- Develop an outgoing social personality
- Be yourself
- Eliminate negative feelings and problems
- VALHAP - "the secret fundamental"
Be happy. Live long and prosper!
Links to happiness!
Well, at least, to sites that can help you find happiness.
- Happiness Research
- Michael Fordyce researches happiness. You can read his articles and books at this site. Even has videos on happiness. Check it out.
- Authentic Happiness Website
- Develop insights into yourself and the world around you through these scientifically tested questionnaires, surveys, and scales.
New Amazon Plexo
Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment by Martin Seligman
Learning to live and engage. Wonderful read with guides to help you improve happiness. Get it and give it!0 points
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
When you are so engaged in something you enjoy you become lost, you are in flow.0 points
StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's Now, Discover Your Strengths by Tom Rath
What are your strengths? Understand your strenghts and work on them, not on your weaknesses.0 points
What You Can Change and What You Can't: The Complete Guide to Successful Self-Improvement Learning to Accept Who You Are (Fawcett Book) by Martin E. Seligman
What can you change in your personality?0 points
Focus on the Good Stuff: The Power of Appreciation by Mike Robbins
Learn to appreciate others, appreciate yourself and be happier at the same time.0 points
Blogs about happiness
- In pursuit of happiness
- COULDN'TWE all do with a little bit more happiness in our lives? While life in the UAE is certainly not arduous, our fast paced lifestyles can leave us ...
- Integrity builds a solid reputation
- Serving others actually cultivates health and brings about happiness. People have instinctively known that for centuries?even before the science of ...
- Middle-aged men happier than women
- They found that overall happiness is most heavily linked to the stability of a person's family and finances. Both sexes have fairly similar life goals when ...
- Osama Bin Laden’s Happiness at 9/11 Death Toll Recounted at Driver ...
- By Debra Cassens Weiss An FBI interrogator testified yesterday that the driver for Osama bin Laden overheard the al-Qaida leader saying he was happy with ...
New Guestbook
Like this lens? Want to share your feedback, or just give a thumbs up? Be the first to submit a blurb!
