Gratitude

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Meditation and Mindset to Improve Happiness
The Science of Well-Being

Mindset to Improve Happiness

One of the more difficult things in modern society is our ability to control our minds. We tend to have minds that do not stick on the task at hand. Our minds are all over the place. Is it possible to control our mindset to improve happiness? Mind-wandering Mind-wandering is a phenomenon in which we shift the contents of our thoughts away from whatever task we have going on, shifting them to the external environment. 46.9% of the time we are not thinking about the things in the here and now. Almost half of the time we are not focused …

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The Science of Well-Being

Reset Your Reference Points

How do we get over the annoying feature of our mind that decides to judge ourselves against relative versus absolute reference points? Please read this post if you feel confused about reference points! Let’s talk about how to reset your reference points to help you become genuinely happier. Reference Points Quick reminder, this annoying feature of our mind is the one that compares ourselves, our successes, our dreams, against others and not against what we care about or seek internally. These reference points are affecting our happiness levels, without us even realizing it. We use other people’s lives, social media, …

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Gratitude
The Science of Well-Being

Curb Hedonic Adaptation

Let’s continue with putting in the work on reframing our thinking on what makes us happier. Last post we started with learning how to Rethink “Awesome Stuff”. Today we will discuss how to Curb Hedonic Adaptation. Refresher Hedonic adaptation is the tendency of humans to quickly return to a relatively stable level of happiness despite major recent positive or negative events or life changes. Read more about this here. Seems simple enough. If we become intentional with our investments we will see that experiences do make us happier. Plus, we avoid adaptation to happiness, as experiences are short lived. But what …

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