Este documento discute varias formas de promover la felicidad y el bienestar humano. Menciona que parte de la felicidad se debe a factores genéticos y circunstanciales, pero que una gran parte depende de los hábitos y comportamientos que uno elige, como hacer ejercicio, tener una mascota, ayudar a otros, meditar, y vivir en el presente. También enfatiza la importancia de las relaciones positivas como los abrazos y actos de amabilidad.
18. The Need for Touch “ Necesitamos cuatros abrazos al día para sobrevivir. Necesitamos ocho abrazos diarios para nuestro autogestión. Necesitamos 12 abrazos diarios para crecer.” Virginia Satir
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¿Cuáles son los eventos que te hacen feliz? Count your blessings una vez a la semana o una vez al mes. Writing letters of appreciation In one of the first studies on gratitude (Emmons & McCullough, 2003), one group of volunteers was asked to list five things for which they were thankful, once a week for 10 weeks in a row. Their “blessings” ranged from “my family” to “good health” to “The Rolling Stones.” Other volunteers participated in two control groups – that is, instead of focusing on gratitude every week, these individuals were asked either to think about their five daily hassles or five major events that had occurred. Relative to these two groups, those who were asked to express gratitude felt more optimistic and more satisfied with their lives. Also, they reported fewer physical symptoms (such as headaches, coughing, or nausea) and more time spent exercising. In one internet study, two interventions increased happiness and decreased depressive symptoms for at least six months. One exercise involves writing down three things that went well and why, every day for a week. The other is about identifying your signature strengths and using one of them in a new and different way every day for a week. A third technique involves writing a long letter to someone you're grateful to but have never properly thanked, and visiting them to read it out in person.
In one study (King, 2001), participants spent 20 minutes a day, for four days, writing about how they want their life to be in the future. Compared to those who wrote about more neutral topics, people who wrote about their best possible future selves experienced increases in positive mood both immediately after the writing exercises and several weeks later.
A second activity for increasing happiness works by creating a sense of optimism. It involves thinking about your life in the future and visualizing living it as your “best possible self” (BPS; King, 2001).
pp. 148-9 Hugs make people happier . Students at Penn State who were instructed to give or receive a minimum of five hugs per day over the course of four weeks and to record the details became much happier. Students who merely recorded their reading activity showed no changes.
p. 198 People high in mindfulness - that is, those who are prone to be mindfully attentive to the here and now and keenly aware of their surroundings - are models of flourishing and positive mental health.
High performance and high satisfaction Motivation Creativity Self-esteem Happiness Flow (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)
Dr. Richard Davidson would agree. He has studied the brains of Buddhist monks, men who spend their lives deliberately forcing positive emotions, and their happiness is off the charts. His new data claims that if a person sits quietly for a half-hour a day just thinking about kindness and compassion, their brain will show noticeable changes in just two weeks.