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World Database of Happiness. Are You Able to Laugh at Your Self? Allan N. Schwartz, LCSW, Ph.D. Updated: Apr 15th 2008 In January of 2007 I had posted an article about humor that I entitled, Humor, A Laughing Matter. It can be found at the following URL: Interestingly, there were no responses. Therefore, I have decided to try again because of the importance of humor and laughing to mental health and well being. I have always discussed with patients the fact that when they develop the ability to laugh at some of their own reactions and behaviors they will achieve true mental health. The point to clarify here is not to laugh at your self, but at some of the things you do and some of the things you feel.
For example, many years ago I was maintaining two offices, one at my home outside of New York City and one in Manhattan. On this one occasion, we agreed to meet at 7 O'Clock. Mental Help Net is a web site devoted to helping people who have serious emotional issues, questions and problems. » Handbook for Life: 52 Tips for Happiness and Productivity. By Leo Babauta This is something I’ve been wanting to write for some time — a Handbook for Life. Now, is there any handbook that can be a guide to every single person? Of course not. This is just a list of tips that I think will help many people in life — some of them common-sense tips that we often forget about. Consider this guide a reminder. It’ll also become apparent from the links in this handbook that I’ve written about this stuff before.
How to use this handbook This handbook is not meant to be a step-by-step guide, nor should you adopt all the tips below. Pick and choose the tips that will be most useful to you. 52 Tips for Happiness and Productivity Try rising early. Happiness Quiz. Authentic Happiness Inventory Questionnaire. Test your happiness. Psychologists say it is possible to measure your happiness. This test designed by psychologist Professor Ed Diener from the University of Illinois, takes just a minute to complete.
To find out how happy you are just look at the five statements below and decide whether you agree or disagree using a 1-7 scale. Please be open and honest in your responding - remember your answers are totally private. Once you have answered all five questions press submit and we will calculate your score. You will then be able to read Professor Diener's analysis. Strongly disagree Disagree Slightly disagree Neither agree nor disagree Slightly agree Agree Strongly agree Below are five statements that you may agree or disagree with. What makes you makes you happy To understand life satisfaction scores, it is helpful to understand some of the components that go into most people's experience of happiness.
One of the most important influences on happiness is social relationships. Other sources of happiness. Your Happiness Depends on This. James H Fowler, associate professor1, Nicholas A Christakis, professor2 Author Affiliations Correspondence to: N A Christakis christak@hcp.med.harvard.eduAccepted 10 September 2008 Abstract Objectives To evaluate whether happiness can spread from person to person and whether niches of happiness form within social networks. Design Longitudinal social network analysis. Setting Framingham Heart Study social network. Participants 4739 individuals followed from 1983 to 2003. Main outcome measures Happiness measured with validated four item scale; broad array of attributes of social networks and diverse social ties. Results Clusters of happy and unhappy people are visible in the network, and the relationship between people’s happiness extends up to three degrees of separation (for example, to the friends of one’s friends’ friends).
Conclusions People’s happiness depends on the happiness of others with whom they are connected. Introduction Methods Participants Network ascertainment Glossary Measures. Money buys happiness when you spend on others: research. Researchers at the University of British Columbia and the Harvard Business School have found that it’s possible to buy happiness after all: when you spend money on others. In a series of studies, UBC Asst. Prof. Elizabeth Dunn found that individuals report significantly greater happiness if they spend money “pro-socially” – that is on gifts for others or charitable donations – rather than spending on themselves. Her findings will appear in the March 21 edition of the journal Science. “We wanted to test our theory that how people spend their money is at least as important as how much money they earn,” says Dunn, who teaches in the UBC Dept. of Psychology and is lead author of the study.
Her co-authors are UBC master’s student Lara Aknin and Michael Norton, an assistant professor at the Harvard Business School. The researchers looked at a nationally representative sample of more than 630 Americans, of whom 55 per cent were female. Source: University of British Columbia. 10 Things Science Says Will Make You Happy by Jen Angel. [Buy or print our poster version of this article below.] In the last few years, psychologists and researchers have been digging up hard data on a question previously left to philosophers: What makes us happy? Researchers like the father-son team Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener, Stanford psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky, and ethicist Stephen Post have studied people all over the world to find out how things like money, attitude, culture, memory, health, altruism, and our day-to-day habits affect our well-being. The emerging field of positive psychology is bursting with new findings that suggest your actions can have a significant effect on your happiness and satisfaction with life.
Here are 10 scientifically proven strategies for getting happy. 1. Pause now and then to smell a rose or watch children at play. 2. While keeping up with the Joneses is part of American culture, comparing ourselves with others can be damaging to happiness and self-esteem. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.