«I have found that in therapy, the individual can become more self aware which can better serve the person to live more deeply, with more knowledge, and
with more happiness.
Engaging in bad sex more frequently is unlikely to be associated
with more happiness, but overall people tend to report that their sexual experiences are more satisfying than unsatisfying.
Those are some amazing things that happened in this year, and I wish you even better 2017, filled
with more happiness, joy and love.
In parting, Dr. Berzin runs through a checklist to help determine the extent to which this class has helped you decrease your stress levels — and hopefully live
with more happiness, energy, and health!
My extended family including aunts, uncles, and cousins provided
me with more happiness and support than a young boy could ask for.
The idea that more wealth does not necessarily equate
with more happiness is nothing new, even to economists.
Not exact matches
We can feel
more connected and less lonely, and that correlates
with long - term measures of
happiness and health.
«Younger people who view their future as extensive gain
more happiness from extraordinary experiences,» the researchers concluded, while as people age, it is
more ordinary experiences that become associated
with happiness.
«Past research has found that people grow steadily happier as they age from adolescence to older adulthood,
with happiness peaking when people reach their 60s and 70s; the moodiness of youth subsides, and maturity brings
more contentment.
After that point,
happiness doesn't rise
with more money.
Happiness was then steadily lower
with more hours of use.
These links between
happiness and time use are worrying news, as the current generation of teens (whom I call «iGen» in my book of the same name) spends
more time
with screens than any previous generation.
Younger people, for example, «are
more likely to associate
happiness with excitement, whereas older individuals are
more likely to experience
happiness as feeling peaceful.»
And in individual jobs, he writes,
happiness has
more to do
with personal control than
with compensation.
Whether it's saving
more money, eating healthier or spending
more time
with family, now is a time for making changes to improve upon our
happiness.
But according to
happiness expert and author Christine Carter there's a
more fundamental problem
with adjusting your behavior to please others — not only does it harm you, but science shows that other people don't actually like it much either.
When most people seek
happiness, they are actually seeking pleasure: good food,
more sex,
more time for TV and movies, a new car, parties
with friends, full body massages, losing 10 pounds, becoming
more popular, and so on.
This is perhaps the most obvious of the situations outlined by Newman, but as you'd expect, chasing
happiness makes it much
more difficult to empathize appropriately
with others» suffering.
The takeaway: «Small, concrete goals designed to improve the well being of others are
more likely to lead to
happiness for the giver than are acts
with large, abstract goals — despite people's intuitions to the contrary,» and keeping that fact in mind can provide a considerable boost to your well being.
And
with a growing body of research that suggests employee
happiness yields a promising return on investment, many employers are interested in perking up their workers
with more than just K - Cup coffee.
Research shows that
happiness has positive effects on our brains, and it's certainly a pleasant turn of luck to be born
with a sunny disposition, but according to science if you weren't so fortunate and naturally tend towards pessimism, trying to remake yourself into
more of an optimist is probably doing
more harm than good.
Research does show that money is associated
with greater
happiness up to an income of about $ 75,000, but even after controlling for income, it turns out that people who want time
more than they want money are happier.
I know that my long term
happiness has less to do
with making money and
more to exploring the freedom and connections it provides.
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They are full of hope for you — for «your promise,» for a life filled
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We can feel
more connected and less lonely, and that correlates
with long term measures of
happiness and health.
Some did try to reconnect
with estranged family or patch troubled relationships when they learned they were dying -
more for themselves than for the
happiness of their families.
The difficulty
with arguing that gambling interests produce
more social havoc than benefits is that it is an argument about
happiness.
Reasoning
with people of faith is
more tricky than the
happiness one finds by abandoning their own faith in religious delusion.
The individualist who marries just out of interest in his or her personal
happiness, no
more, is not really in love, except
with himself or herself.
But I recognize that it would be a short - lived
happiness as a used Civic, meaning one
with a few bumps and bruises, will also transport me around town at a
more affordable cost.
I don't believe your loving me could shut up your heart; it's only adding to what you've been before, not taking away from it; for it seems to me it's the same
with love and
happiness as
with sorrow — the
more we know of it the better we can feel what other people's lives are or might be, and so we shall only be
more tender to»em, and wishful to help»em.
Yet much can be done in the way of making clear the understanding of man's spiritual nature, his high destiny which points beyond this life for its fulfillment, the meaning of the Kingdom for this life and the next, the Christian concepts of judgment and salvation
with eternity in their span — in short, the goodness and power of a God who, having given us this life, can give us another in which to attain to his nearer presence, enjoy a richer
happiness, and do his will
more perfectly.
And the moment we renounce the absurd notion that a thing is exploded away as soon as it is classed
with others, or its origin is shown; the moment we agree to stand by experimental results and inner quality, in judging of values — who does not see that we are likely to ascertain the distinctive significance of religious melancholy and
happiness, or of religious trances, far better by comparing them as conscientiously as we can
with other varieties of melancholy,
happiness, and trance, than by refusing to consider their place in any
more general series, and treating them as if they were outside of nature's order altogether?
Objectivists believe it is personal
happiness» As a fundamentalist could not agree
with you
more.
Evangelical women feel
more appreciated and report
more happiness with their marriages than mainline women do.
That is what I propose to discuss here: not from the viewpoint of Sirius, as the saying is — that is to say,
with the lofty detachment of an observer seeing things from so far off that they fail to touch him — but
with the anxious intensity of a son of Earth who draws back in order to be able to see
more deeply into the matter and spirit of a movement upon which his
happiness depends.
I'm
more convinced than ever that
happiness is a choice, and that I can be miserable
with or without a book deal, joyful
with or without high sales numbers.
Indeed, the tormented Hazel Motes in Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood appears to have
more in common
with the tormented apostle Paul than those, like us, who have found
happiness in ministry.
So when I saw the faces once again of so many
with whom thirty years before and in the decades that followed I had - so often bitterly embattled against the Establishment - faced that challenge, men from whom inevitably I had become separated on my own conversion to Rome; and when I saw their profound
happiness at the Pope's great and apostolic act, and their excitement at the prospect before them, I could not fail to remember once
more a famous passage from the Apologia pro Vita Sua, which the agnostic George Eliot said she could not read without tears; and certainly, I can not:
However, as we look around today and ask what conditions seem on the whole to make for
happiness in marriage, we are driven to the curious conclusion that the
more «civilized people become the less capable they seem of lifelong
happiness with one partner» (p. 135) For a marriage to work requires that there «be a feeling of complete equality on both sides; there must be no interference
with mutual freedom; there must be the most complete physical and mental intimacy; and there must be a certain similarity in regard to standards of value» (p. 143).
Laity worry about the personal
happiness of an unmarried female pastor; but if she is married, they have even
more trouble knowing what to do
with her husband.
As it turns out, people
with less religion actually tend to have
more happiness.
An Israeli research group found that certain variations of the gene made people much
more likely to affirm such statements as «I bubble
with happiness» and «I am a cheerful optimist.»
I paired studying the
more than 400 references to joy and
happiness throughout the Scripture
with recent scientific studies on the subject.
Our modern obsession
with being happy often makes it far easier for us to love
happiness more than we ever love another human.
We need not go so far as to say
with the author whom I lately quoted that any persistent enthusiasm is, as such, religion, nor need we call mere laughter a religious exercise; but we must admit that any persistent enjoyment may produce the sort of religion which consists in a grateful admiration of the gift of so happy an existence; and we must also acknowledge that the
more complex ways of experiencing religion are new manners of producing
happiness, wonderful inner paths to a supernatural kind of
happiness, when the first gift of natural existence is unhappy, as it so often proves itself to be.
That way it can become a wonderful tool to share and celebrate and we can all go through our days
with a little extra
happiness rather than a little
more self - doubt!