Want to be happier? You can! With these expert tips for boosting your moods, 2012 can be your most joyful year yet...
Most
people think that happiness – or lack of it – is a matter of luck and
circumstance. But you have the power to be happier this year.
“You
can actively create happiness with your actions,” says Sonja
Lyubomirsky, Ph.D., professor of psychology at the University of
California-Riverside and a colleague of the University of Pennsylvania’s
Martin Seligman, Ph.D., founder of the discipline known as “positive
psychology.”
The bonus? Happy people are generally healthier than
others and often live longer, according to a 2008 joint study by the
University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha and Erasmus University in
the Netherlands.
That may be because happy people see more
options in life and deal with adversity and stress more effectively,
researchers conclude.
Follow these 11 tips, and you could be on your way to having your happiest – and healthiest – new year ever.
1. Raise your default happiness level.
Genes
determine 50% of your reactions to life-changing circumstances – good
or bad – according to Lyubomirsky’s research over the past 20 years,
which she describes in her book The How of Happiness (Penguin Press). That means your baseline happiness level tends to stay within a certain range.
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