3 Free and Easy Happiness Hacks for Stressful Times

A global pandemic, economic uncertainty, political insurrection. Are you finding it hard to feel happy these days? Try these 3 free and easy happiness hacks.

A global pandemic, economic uncertainty, political insurrection. Are you finding it hard to feel happy these days? Try these 3 free and easy happiness hacks.

These tips are inspired by the book Happy Ever After by the author.

1. Let Your Inner Child Out to Play

You may have lost touch with it, but trust me, it’s still in there — your inner child. Have you ignored it and pushed it aside? After all, life is busy and you’re a responsible adult now.

In the 1970s, Eric Berne wrote about a theory he named Transactional Analysis. He reported that we all have a parent part, an adult part, and a child part. Your child part is responsible for courage, creativity and fun. You can imagine the roles of the other two parts, and they do not have anything to do with having fun.

You need a healthy balance of all three of these parts. When you let your inner adult take over too much, you let yourself get absorbed by a lot of organizing and planning. you focus on the…