Can tracking acts of kindness actually increase happiness?
New podcast episode breaks down the science behind kindness as a measurable habit—not just a feeling.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0v6KSVg3VOtkz59hRymAZI?si=SdHV5h9ISqy4XjJu2X_N6Q
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Happiness researcher reveals the 'enduring' secret to being happy in the second half of life
3 Blessings 4/10 I first read about it in a 2007 New York Times article, “Happiness 101.” 📰 Psychologists highlighted simple “interventions” to build lasting well-being. #PsychologyResearch #ScienceOfHappiness #HumanFlourishing
Ancient Wisdom, Modern Joy: Anupam Srivastava on Unlocking the Science of Hinduism
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📰 An 85yo study to find what makes people happiest determines the following are key:
✳️ Strong, supportive relationships
✳️ Emotional resilience and positive outlook
✳️ Healthy lifestyle choices
✳️ Social engagement and community involvement
✳️ Purposeful work and retirement
✳️ Regular self-reflection on social fitness
My Flipboard mag curates information like this every week: https://flipboard.com/@joewynne12/best-lifetime-0rtij0bgy (not monetized)
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Article:
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/what-makes-you-happy-redone/
Struggling with gift-giving? You are not alone!
Researchers actually study gift-giving and my summary of what they have come up with is that
👉 You are doing it wrong
🎁 Gift-givers usually have the wrong idea of what makes a good gift for the receiver
🎁 Certain types of gifts can significantly disappoint receivers - and they will not tell you
🎁 There are known best gift-giving practices that you probably do not know
😀 But it's possible to get it right! Beware, though, one tip requires you to get over the social norm of not asking what they want.
More at this podcast (with funny bad gift-giving scenes from TV shows). Go directly to 22nd minute for tips segment.
https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/the-secret-to-gift-giving/
More in this book
Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn’t Buy Presents for the Holidays, by Joel Waldfogel, Princeton University Press, 2009.
How do you get the following benefits in 5 to 7 days?
* 42% improvement in sustained attention
* Better memory recall in cognitive tests
* Reduced anxiety levels by 31%
* Improved face-to-face social interactions
A: Delete 3 apps from your phone. It's neuroscience!!
You know when it's a good time to write down what you are grateful for?
Now
📣 Make some public to maintain a virtuous cycle and to help others find more to be grateful for when it is difficult.
#️⃣ Use this hashtag #3GoodThings
😃 Follow the hashtag and make a list every day to improve your mental health.
Have you read toots from people who have overcome hardships, some profound, to be where they are today?
Do you have your own story?
Well, write it!
This article is about how writing our own stories in the form of a hero's journey *has been proven* to help enrich our sense of #meaning.
You need certain elements to make this work: Protagonist (you!), a shift of circumstances, a quest, a challenge, allies, and more, but it's not hard.
https://www.sciencealert.com/becoming-a-real-hero-can-make-your-life-more-meaningful
#NoticingNature Concluding thoughts
I didn't feel the exercise enhanced my happiness, but more of a chore to photograph something every day. I already notice and reflect on small things, and take joy in the common. Perhaps I could always do it more, and make more conscious effort to get out and about in my local green space each day.
To sign off this #WorldMentalHealthDay, here are two more photos from Day 12.
Noticing Nature Day 13
Lying in the hammock (in October!), listening to the starlings whooping and chuckling, and gazing vacantly up at the rose growing over the pergola. Feeling content and happy in the moment, despite cause for concern. It seems it is a good year for hips and haws.
[Update: Oops, forgot the photo!]
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Noticing Nature Day 12
Great walk today in the autumn sun circumambulating Burrator Reservoir. Love the combinations of blues, greens, browns, greys. So not quite all nature. There's plenty of human intervention too. But I feel incredibly grateful to live in such a beautiful part of the world.
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#Dartmoor #Devon
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Noticing Nature Day 11
I love the 'daisies' under my front doorstep, greeting me cheerily when I venture out into the world and welcoming me when I return home. And because I have to step over it, I can't not look at it and appreciate it.
(actually Erigeron karvinskianus, Mexican fleabane)
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#BloomScrolling
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Noticing Nature Day 10
Beautiful borlotti, runner and french beans; sugar snap peas; and I think some nasturtium seeds in amongst. Looking forward to eating these, or sowing them next year. Nature is bountiful.
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Noticing Nature Day 9
It is the season to notice nature inside the house: the creepy crawlies that make their way in as it cools outside; the fly currently buzzing around the room, which will be dead on the floor in the morning; and the guest(s) scrabbling above my head in the evenings. Today these humane mouse traps arrived in the post... to remove them before they chew through something important!
Noticing Nature Day 8
The oxygenating starwort in my mini-pond is thriving, perhaps too much! Hopefully I'll be able to share some in my local community or in the Exeter Seed Swap.
#NoticingNature #Nature
#Pondlife #Sharing
#MentalHealth #ScienceOfHappiness
Noticing Nature Day 7
A morning of mist and mizzle, and pearly droplets resting on grass and weeds. My eye delights in the collected light on this dandelion leaf, orbiting the twin daisy suns.
#NoticingNature #Nature
#Nebel #Nieselregen #BloomScrolling
#MentalHealth #ScienceOfHappiness
Noticing Nature Day 6
The leaves are starting to turn, and this maple [correction: sweet gum] is showing off. It's by the side of the road in a business park, and provides some much-needed variegated beauty.
#NoticingNature #Nature
#Trees #Autumn
#MentalHealth #ScienceOfHappiness
Noticing Nature Day 5
It was impossible not to notice nature on a 9-mile walk on The Archangel Way and Dartmoor today. So I chose to photograph a tormentil. For me, although it grows in plenty of other places, this tiny flower is emblematic of Dartmoor.
#NoticingNature #Nature
#BloomScrolling #Pilgrimage
#MentalHealth #ScienceOfHappiness
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