Psychologists have described how to set up your attitude to the positive.
Talking about happiness, we think first about how it’s difficult, and then, looking back at your life, decide what is and so completely happy. Neil Pasricha, the canadian writer and Director of the Institute for global happiness, is sure to be happy enough just to train the brain.
For many years, working with people, Neil Pasricha (Neil Pasricha) has fully seen how hard all of them are given a feeling of happiness. As a result, he wrote the book “Equation of happiness”, where is explained how to train your brain to be happy. The strategy of the Nile are practical, effective and unexpected, and here is the resulting formula: “thou shalt not covet anything + do something = have everything.” He found six simple solutions that we can use every day to become happier. And you should start as early as possible.
1. Three walks
According to researcher Amanda Hyde (Amanda Hyde), physically active people are more positive compared to those who prefer not physical activity, sports or gymnastics, and a different kind of relaxation and rest. “Moreover, we found that a positive attitude increases even more in those days, when we maintain your fitness at altitude”. It does not require you a lot of time: half an hour of brisk walking three times a week. It is proved that thirty-minute brisk walk or jog to help treat depression even better than medication.
2. The 20-minute essay
For 20 minutes write about what is good and positive happened to you today, and it will definitely make you happier. Why? Because you will survive this experience again and again: while you’re writing and re-reading, your brain sort of takes you back to where you were good. Such an experiment was conducted at the University of Texas: couples invited to remember and record all the positive things that happened to them during the day (they were asked to devote 20 minutes three times a day). It was later revealed that these people were more than happy as their relationship.
3. Be kind and spontaneous
Five good deeds a week – and you’ll be happier! Try (just) to pay for the coffee girlfriend, help a neighbor mow the lawn or write a letter of thanks to the Concierge. The experiment showed that the mood of all those who have figured out how to help one’s neighbor, is much improved. Why? The answer is simple: people appreciated their help, sincerely thanked, and all of this better.
4. Full off
Learn to relax, “detaching myself” from all the pressing. Try it once nothing to do after work. Or spend the “empty weekend”: this will help you to tune in a new way and a new week.
5. Find yourself in the flow
The state of “flow,” a term psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi), a special state, which is achieved through the complete fusion of man with his activities, when, instead of the fatigue he feels a surge of energy. In a state of flux we do not notice time, forget about hunger and thirst, not mindful of the social roles, blending in an action that seems important and interesting. No matter how you personally call a state of total immersion in a favorite thing, the main thing – look, indicate this condition, which is consistent with the fact, as evidenced by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
6. Two-minute meditation
A team of Massachusetts Institute compared the brain scan of people before and after meditation. It turned out that after a session of meditation part of the brain responsible for compassion and self-knowledge, increased, while that part which is associated with stress, shrank. Studies show that meditation helps to “program” our brain, which increases the level of happiness.
