Here are some fun ideas to help change your state of mind to a happier you. So get happy fast without delay.
Here are three ways to get happy and improve your mood and lower your stress level. Put this into action and help yourself as well as help others. Below are some cool suggestions you can do right away!
Remember, don’t hold back!
It’s the little things in life that make you happy and you can boost your happiness level at will.
Excerpts by the editors at Prevention:
Happiness Helper #1: Do a Good Deed
People who volunteer are likelier to be happier than those who don’t–regardless of how much money they make or other socioeconomic factors. Researchers believe volunteering boosts happiness because it increases empathy, which makes you appreciate all the good stuff in your own life.
Pitching in for a regular cause in your community is ideal (such as serving food at your church’s soup kitchen), but you can make a difference in other ways in mere minutes. Become an organ donor or sign up for a charity walk. For the person on your holiday gift list who has everything, consider donating money to a good cause in their name. Check out villagevolunteers.org for ideas: Just $20 buys a water filter to give Kenyan orphans clean drinking water, and $35 is enough to purchase 10 mosquito nets to help prevent malaria.
Happiness Helper #2: Flip Through Old Photos
When you’re feeling down, break out your kids’ baby albums or pics from your favorite vacation.
It may actually make you feel happier than a square of Godiva chocolate would! That’s what researchers at the United Kingdom’s Open University found after they examined how much people’s moods rose after eating a chocolate snack, sipping an alcoholic drink, watching TV, listening to music, or looking at personal photos.
The music and chocolate left most people’s moods unchanged; alcohol and TV gave a slight lift (1%), but the winner by a long shot was viewing pictures, which made people feel 11% better. To keep your spirits high, try hanging one of your favorite photos at eye level in an unexpected spot, such as taped to the window in front of your kitchen sink. You’ll score a quick mood boost when you’re doing something mundane, such as washing dishes.
Happiness Helper #3: Sing in the Shower
The shower, with its cocoon of privacy and superlative acoustics, brings out the diva in us all. And we would be wise to let her take the steamy stage and croon away. Music therapists believe that singing boosts your mood. Bonus: singing also enhances immunity by increasing antibodies that fight sickness, according to one German study. So whether your style is Adele or Britney Spears, belt your heart out and soak in singing’s mood and health benefits.
3 Ways How To Get Happy
Doing a good deed is simple enough just by holding the door open for someone or helping someone carry something to their car/home.
Looking at photos from trips you’ve taken or those embarrassing pictures that makes you laugh every time you look at them.
Singing in the shower can be very liberating and if you don’t know many words to songs, who cares? Just make your own words up. Have fun, it doesn’t have to rhyme, just belt it out anyway!
Tell me if you felt better after trying some of the ideas above.
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