“The How Of Happiness” – activities 5, 6, 7, 8
I have recently finished reading a book called “The How Of Happiness” by Sonja Lyubomirsky. The main section of the work is a description of 12 happiness-enhancing activities. Activities 5-8 are as follows:
- Nurturing relationships: Picking a relationship in need of strengthening and investing time and energy in healing, cultivating, affirming and enjoying it.
- Developing strategies for coping: Practising ways to endure or surmount a recent stress, hardship or trauma.
- Learning to forgive: Keeping a journal or writing a letter in which you work on letting go of anger and resentment towards one or more individuals who have hurt or wronged you.
- Doing more activities that truly engage you: Increasing the number of experiences at home and at work in which you ‘lose’ yourself, which are challenging and absorbing (i.e. ‘flow’ experiences).