Happiness is within your reach! Discover 12 proven ways to increase happiness and improve your overall well-being. Learn how simple lifestyle changes, mindfulness, and positive psychology techniques can help you feel more fulfilled. Whether you’re looking to reduce stress, boost positivity, or enhance daily joy, these strategies will guide you toward a happier life. Start making meaningful changes today!
12 Ways to Increase Your Happiness
- Practice acts of kindness
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- Small or big
- Spontaneous and planned
- Several in a day is better that spread over time
- Once a week
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- Count your blessings
- Write 3 things that you were grateful for or went well in your day
- Gratitude jar / Journal
- Cultivate optimism
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- Think and write about the best possible future for you
- Look at the bright side
- Focus on the half glass that’s full
- Smile and laugh
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- Watch comedies
- Funny videos
- Laugh with friends
- Humour
- Play
- Engage fully in your activities
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- Work in a state of flow
- Focused
- Mindfully
- Full attention to the task
- Unaware of the passing of time
- Opposite of automatic pilot and daydreaming
- Nurture your relationships
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- Give your time
- Energy
- Love
- To the people that you care about
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- Use your strengths
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- Creativity
- Curiosity
- Enthusiasm
- Research
- Organize
For more info or character strengths see Via Institute on Character
- Don’t worry, be happy
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- Avoid overthinking
- Avoid social comparison
- Things are not black and white
- Each person has their own blessings and suffering
- We are all human
9. Exercise
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- Dance
- Walk/hike
- Gym
- Bike
- Yoga
- Do whatever you like!
- Exercise brings endorphins
- Savouring: Reflect on your moments of joy
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- By thinking about them
- Talking about them
- Writing on a journal
Taking pictures - Looking at your pictures
- Making albums of aha moments
- Set up goals for yourself
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- Goals that are significant and meaningful to you
- Working towards our goals will give us a sense of accomplishment
- Make time to pursue your goals
- Learn to forgive
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- Letting go of resentments and anger
- Write a letter
- Lovingkindness meditation : “Just like me, they want to be happy”
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