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Book of the Week (#54): Happy Habits

50 science-backed rituals to adopt (or stop) to boost health and happiness, by Karen Salmansohn. "Your friendly happiness & wellness research geek."


Keystone happy habits

  • Your essential morning meditation ritual

  • Your essential evening gratitude practice

Mental happy habits

  • Talk to yourself out loud

  • Chin up, buttercup

  • Cry it up to feel less down

  • Improve your smileage

  • Say the word YET

  • Love up your lobes

Relationship happy habits

  • Small talk = big benefits

  • Get a helperès high (volunteer)

  • Creative positive illusions

  • Let it go

  • Spend time with happy people

Physical happy habits

  • Enjoy h2ahhhhh

  • Devour good mood food

  • Get a twenty-minute endorphin kick (dance)

  • You snooze, you lost the bad mood (an afternoon nap)

  • Headstands help you see more joy

  • Take happiness one step at a time (Walk yourself out of a bad mood. And know the slower you walk, the faster you will feel better)

Home happy habits

  • Declutter your home and your mind will follow (Having less stuff can bring you more joy)

  • Lighten up a dark mood with light

  • Avoid fifty shades of gray in your home and wardrobe

  • Have more fun in the bedroom

  • Have more fun in the kitchen

  • Take selfies of your soul (a daily journal)

  • Solitude improves attitude (Spend some quality time with yourself watching movies, reading books, or doing absolutely nothing. Being alone helps people to become more resilient, self-aware, self-reliant, and self-confident-all of which creates a strong positive attitude about life

Work happy habits

  • Take more real trips, fewer ego trips

  • Stretch your skill sets

  • Be an "active" commuter

  • Have lunch with a side of sunshine

  • Be an expert goalie

  • Music soothes a beastly mood

  • Unplug from work after work

Play happy habits

  • Try adorableness therapy (have a pet)

  • Lose your TV remote

  • Become good-natured in nature

  • Feel more awe = feeling awesome (Simple enjoy incredible stories, music, art, or images of incredible places)

  • Honor a higher power

  • Ha-ha-ha your way happy



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