Woman, Be Happier!

Gratitude Meditation

Adopting an attitude of gratefulness can transform the reality you see around you.

Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty. –Doris Day

Gratitude is Powerful

You see what you look for. Have you ever played a game on a road trip, looking for red Volkswagen Beetles, or license plates from a certain state? Suddenly they are everywhere. If you are looking for things to complain about, you will find some. Look for joys and blessings, and you will find those, too.

Gratitude Exercise

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imperfect: photo by Flickr user Will Scullin under Creative Commons license

Have you ever wanted to start a big project, but found yourself putting it off until you had more time, more money, more knowledge, more help, more something?

Waiting until the conditions are perfect and you have planned every detail can turn into a form of paralysis that prevents you from starting at all.

This Is the Only Life We Get

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Read Are Women Less Happy Than Men? part 2 here.

Do you think women’s happiness is declining? What about your own? Are you getting more or less happy? A 2009 study found that women are less happy than men, and less happy in 2006 than they were in 1972, across differences in income, education and nationality. Why is this happening? And what are we going to do about it?

I want to know what you think about your own happiness, and if the results of this study are true, then I want to know what we can do about it to reverse the negative trend. Or maybe we can only affect our own individual happiness, so how can we make ourselves happier? Please add your opinion in a comment, and see part 2 next week which will review some of the comments that have appeared around the web.

Find Out What the Study Said

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Do you ever feel so busy and overwhelmed with your life that it’s like trying to juggle with only one arm? Here’s some inspiration and amusement for you from an amazing person–Jason Quick, One-Armed Juggler. Yes, he really does have only one arm.

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This insightful post on Positively Present caught my eye, and I know you all will be interested in reading it. It gives 28 steps to a positive & successful life, There are lots of great ideas for increasing the positive in your life.

Please tell me what you think.

An academic specialist in happiness tells us the secret he taught to Harvard students about finding daily joy and lasting fulfillment.

Happier by Tal Ben-Shahar Book Review

Happier by Tal Ben-Shahar is an amazingly thought-provoking book. The author is an expert in the academic field of positive psychology. When he taught a class on happiness at Harvard, he started with a handful of students. Two years later, he had hundreds, making it the most popular class ever taught at Harvard. The book covers the ideas from that class.

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Mamma Mia is without a doubt the happiest movie I have ever seen.

Mamma Mia DVD Review

Sisters, this is without a doubt the happiest movie I have ever seen. If you can watch it without getting a smile on your face and a bouncy tune stuck in your head, then you’re either extremely cynical or way too far gone in the Pit of Despair.

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Here are 21 things you can do to find a little happiness in your life right this minute.

21 Ways to Be Happy Today

• 1. Be grateful.
• 2. Breathe deeply.
• 3. Hug someone.
• 4. Stop, look and listen.
• 5. Mentally relive moments in your life when someone was kind to you.
• 6. Look for beauty in nature.
• 7. Sing a song out loud, or hum to yourself.

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Keeping the right positive mindset is the key to everything.

Norma Joy’s 10 commandments for keeping a positive attitude

• 1. Compassion is mandatory; self-destructiveness is forbidden.
• 2. Health is a priority, not a luxury.
• 3. Optimism is required.

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Start having the same compassion for yourself that you have for other vulnerable creatures. Give yourself some respect, and don’t hurt yourself or let anybody hurt you.

Let us begin with ahimsa

“Let us begin with ahimsa” were the first words of my yoga teacher in the first yoga class I ever attended. It seemed a startlingly strange thing to say at the time.

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