14 Science-Based Practices to Increase Your Happiness

“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” — Dalai Lama

Sinem Günel
Personal Growth Base
10 min readMar 31, 2020

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Photo by Omar Lopez on Unsplash

While everyone wants to be happy, only very few people are proactively creating a life full of happiness, joy, and passion.

Most people even believe happiness is something that happens to us.

And instead of doing things that make us happy and bring joy into our lives, we often find ourselves in a doom-loop of negativity and complaints.

Problems and challenges occur in anyone’s life. Yet, life is not about what happens to you but about how you respond to it.

The happiest and most successful people in the world are not luckier than the rest. They just chose to be happy despite all the negativity they face.

Happy people are present and grateful, even during difficult times.

They focus on what matters and actively create a life they love instead of reacting to circumstances.

Happiness is a choice.

One that we need to make every day in order to be long-running.

To be happy, we need to choose it over and over. Every day.

And while happiness is individual and can’t be generalized across different…

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