Comments on: Surprising Facts About Happiness http://www.notjustthekitchen.com/family-relationships/surprising-facts-on-happiness/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:19:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: frank http://www.notjustthekitchen.com/family-relationships/surprising-facts-on-happiness/comment-page-1/#comment-727 frank Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:22:49 +0000 http://www.notjustthekitchen.com/?p=584#comment-727 Hello, and thanks for this post! The Institute of Subjective Well-Being (http://www.iswb.org/) just released a free eBook titled "Happiness Formulas: How to assess our subjective well-being? How to live joyfully in the 21st century?". The eBook also reviews AmAre Way (http://www.amareway.org/), a formula to measure happiness, and a way of living joyfully. AmAre is an acronym which stands for: Aware (being), Meditating, Active (being), Respectful (being), Eating properly. AmAre is an Italian word which means "to love", and in English it sounds like interconnectedness: (I) Am (we) Are. "Happiness Formulas" eBook summarizes some of the main findings in recent research about subjective well-being, and raises points of its own, including: - being happy is a choice we make right here and now, by living joyfully. It is not a place to reach in the future. - there are ways to measure subjective well-being and thinking about what such formulas mean for us, is even more important than the numbers we get out of them. - we get happier by making other people happier - understanding happiness requires a paradigm shift: from a digital (right or wrong, true or false) way of thinking which belonged to analogical times, to an analogical (degrees of appropriateness) way of thinking which belongs to our digital times - SWB has strong implications for public policy and diplomacy - SWB agents, objects and actions can be classified as hot, mild and cool - there are several "fringe" benefits to living joyfully, for example happier people are more sociable and energetic, more caring and cooperative, better liked by others, more likely to get married and stay married, to have wider social networks and receive support from friends, show more flexibility and creativity in their thinking, are more productive and work, are recognized as better leaders and negotiators, and so earn accordingly. They are more tenacious when times are not pleasant, have stronger immune systems, are healthier both physically and mentally, and live longer. We look forward to hearing your way of living joyfully! Hello, and thanks for this post! The Institute of Subjective Well-Being (http://www.iswb.org/) just released a free eBook titled “Happiness Formulas: How to assess our subjective well-being? How to live joyfully in the 21st century?”.

The eBook also reviews AmAre Way (http://www.amareway.org/), a formula to measure happiness, and a way of living joyfully. AmAre is an acronym which stands for: Aware (being), Meditating, Active (being), Respectful (being), Eating properly. AmAre is an Italian word which means “to love”, and in English it sounds like interconnectedness: (I) Am (we) Are.

“Happiness Formulas” eBook summarizes some of the main findings in recent research about subjective well-being, and raises points of its own, including:
- being happy is a choice we make right here and now, by living joyfully. It is not a place to reach in the future.
- there are ways to measure subjective well-being and thinking about what such formulas mean for us, is even more important than the numbers we get out of them.
- we get happier by making other people happier
- understanding happiness requires a paradigm shift: from a digital (right or wrong, true or false) way of thinking which belonged to analogical times, to an analogical (degrees of appropriateness) way of thinking which belongs to our digital times
- SWB has strong implications for public policy and diplomacy
- SWB agents, objects and actions can be classified as hot, mild and cool
- there are several “fringe” benefits to living joyfully, for example happier people are more sociable and energetic, more caring and cooperative, better liked by others, more likely to get married and stay married, to have wider social networks and receive support from friends, show more flexibility and creativity in their thinking, are more productive and work, are recognized as better leaders and negotiators, and so earn accordingly. They are more tenacious when times are not pleasant, have stronger immune systems, are healthier both physically and mentally, and live longer.

We look forward to hearing your way of living joyfully!

]]> By: Recent Mentions of happier.com in the media « happier.com blog | a personal trainer for your happiness http://www.notjustthekitchen.com/family-relationships/surprising-facts-on-happiness/comment-page-1/#comment-270 Recent Mentions of happier.com in the media « happier.com blog | a personal trainer for your happiness Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:54:08 +0000 http://www.notjustthekitchen.com/?p=584#comment-270 [...] Not Just the Kitchen posted a piece by one of our own team members: Surprising Facts about Happiness. [...] [...] Not Just the Kitchen posted a piece by one of our own team members: Surprising Facts about Happiness. [...]

]]> By: Three Things You Can Do Today To Increase Your Happiness « happier.com blog | a personal trainer for your happiness http://www.notjustthekitchen.com/family-relationships/surprising-facts-on-happiness/comment-page-1/#comment-264 Three Things You Can Do Today To Increase Your Happiness « happier.com blog | a personal trainer for your happiness Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:06:32 +0000 http://www.notjustthekitchen.com/?p=584#comment-264 [...] This is adapted from a post originally published on Not Just the Kitchen. [...] [...] This is adapted from a post originally published on Not Just the Kitchen. [...]

]]> By: Sean Munson http://www.notjustthekitchen.com/family-relationships/surprising-facts-on-happiness/comment-page-1/#comment-248 Sean Munson Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:54:38 +0000 http://www.notjustthekitchen.com/?p=584#comment-248 Not dissimilar to some of the ideas and David's link above, I've developed a <a href="http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=119352832576&v=info" rel="nofollow">app</a> on Facebook to support the positive psychology exercise "Three Good Things." Participants in this exercise record Three Good Things, and the reasons why they happen, every day. We're particularly interested in how to make these exercises more effective using social interaction. <a href="http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=119352832576&v=info" rel="nofollow">The app</a> is free to use, but because it is a research project, we ask participants to complete very brief surveys after 1 week, 1 month, 3 months, and 6 months of use. Not dissimilar to some of the ideas and David’s link above, I’ve developed a app on Facebook to support the positive psychology exercise “Three Good Things.” Participants in this exercise record Three Good Things, and the reasons why they happen, every day. We’re particularly interested in how to make these exercises more effective using social interaction.

The app is free to use, but because it is a research project, we ask participants to complete very brief surveys after 1 week, 1 month, 3 months, and 6 months of use.

]]> By: David http://www.notjustthekitchen.com/family-relationships/surprising-facts-on-happiness/comment-page-1/#comment-238 David Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:09:40 +0000 http://www.notjustthekitchen.com/?p=584#comment-238 Another new approach to boosting your happiness based on the latest positive psychology research is our <a href="http://www.LiveHappyApp.com?blog" rel="nofollow">iPhone app: Live Happy</a> (there’s also a Free Trial version); it's based on the work of Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky, author of "The How of Happiness" and provides a unique method to create a personalized program to increase your happiness. You can also learn more about the iPhone app on our <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Live-Happy/87217236167" rel="nofollow">Facebook page</a>. Another new approach to boosting your happiness based on the latest positive psychology research is our iPhone app: Live Happy (there’s also a Free Trial version); it’s based on the work of Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky, author of “The How of Happiness” and provides a unique method to create a personalized program to increase your happiness.

You can also learn more about the iPhone app on our Facebook page.

]]> By: Shrunken Mind Dr. John Schinnerer - Making the Mind Understandable » Blog Archive » Surprising Facts About Happiness - Gr8 Article Summarizing Research in Positive Psychology http://www.notjustthekitchen.com/family-relationships/surprising-facts-on-happiness/comment-page-1/#comment-237 Shrunken Mind Dr. John Schinnerer - Making the Mind Understandable » Blog Archive » Surprising Facts About Happiness - Gr8 Article Summarizing Research in Positive Psychology Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:29:38 +0000 http://www.notjustthekitchen.com/?p=584#comment-237 [...] http://www.notjustthekitchen.com/family-relationships/surprising-facts-on-happiness/ [...] [...] http://www.notjustthekitchen.com/family-relationships/surprising-facts-on-happiness/ [...]

]]> By: Twitted by marriedaffairs http://www.notjustthekitchen.com/family-relationships/surprising-facts-on-happiness/comment-page-1/#comment-236 Twitted by marriedaffairs Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:04:09 +0000 http://www.notjustthekitchen.com/?p=584#comment-236 [...] This post was Twitted by marriedaffairs [...] [...] This post was Twitted by marriedaffairs [...]

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