Do You Say "I Just Want to Be Happy"? Here's HowDo you just want to be happy but aren't sure how? We can all increase our happiness, at least a little bit. Here are a bunch of science-based strategies if you just want to be happy.
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What Is Happiness?For most people, happiness means the same thing as subjective well-being (Sheldon & Lyubomirsky, 2006). Basically, if we feel good emotionally and mentally, we are happy. But happiness can also be broken down into two parts: hedonia (e.g., pleasure, enjoyment, comfort, absence of distress) and eudaimonia (e.g., growth, meaning, authenticity, excellence) (Huta & Waterman, 2014). If you're saying. "I just want to be happy", you probably want both of these parts of happiness. So we'll talk here about strategies for developing both of them.
What to Do When You Just Want to Be HappyThere are so many strategies you can use when you just want to be happy. Keep in mind that these strategies take time to make meaningful positive impacts on your life. They are also not always easy to continue doing. But growing your happiness is very much like growing muscles. You have to work at it and continue to strengthen your "happiness muscles" over time. Only when you do this will happiness come automatically with little effort at all (just like when you get strong and can lift things easily). This is exactly what our happiness program shows you how to do.
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