The Science of Happy People:
5 Strategies to Bring More Joy to Your Life
Here in Toronto, we are amidst a deep freeze, so even taking the dog up the street and back is challenging. We’ve hunkered down with heaters covering some of our water pipes prone to freezing, and we are bundled in sweaters and warm socks.
I am posting about happiness for this week’s Feel Good Friday article.
During the COVID pandemic, like many other people stuck in isolation at home, we sought ways to cultivate more joy in our lives. At some point during the middle of it all, an online University course was released by Yale. This course was called The Science of Well-Being, developed by Happiness Researcher and Yale Psychology Instructor Laurie Santos. The program is still available online, and as it was during the height of the pandemic, it is open to all to participate.
Something I liked about this course was that it offered practical ideas to achieve greater happiness through a symbiotic process of attention to nutrition and health, actions to take, observation, and, above all, gratitude.
The course also proposed some misconceptions about what we think makes us happy. For example, we might believe that more money and possessions may make us more satisfied with our life, but, in reality, this is only true to a certain…
