{"id":21785,"date":"2017-08-14T07:38:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T06:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=21785"},"modified":"2017-08-14T07:38:16","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T06:38:16","slug":"the-how-of-happiness-activities-1-2-3-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=21785","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The How Of Happiness&#8221; &#8211; activities 1, 2, 3, 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have recently finished reading a book called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/d\/cka\/How-Happiness-Practical-Guide-Getting-Life-Want\/0749952466\/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1502559380&amp;sr=1-1-spell&amp;keywords=%22The+How+Of+Happiness%22+by+Sonja+Lyubomirsk\">&#8220;The How Of Happiness&#8221;<\/a> by Sonja Lyubomirsky. The main section of the work is a description of 12 happiness-enhancing activities. Activities 1-4 are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Expressing gratitude: Counting your blessings for what you have (either to a close other or privately, through contemplation or diary-writing) or conveying your gratitude and appreciation to one or more individuals whom you&#8217;ve never properly thanked.<\/li>\n<li>Cultivating optimism: Keeping a journal in which you imagine and write about the best possible future for yourself or practise looking at the bright side of every situation.<\/li>\n<li>Avoiding overthinking and social comparison: Using strategies (such as distraction) to cut down on how often you dwell on your problems and compare yourself to others.<\/li>\n<li>Practising acts of kindness: Doing good things for others, whether friends or strangers, either directly ot anonymously, either spontaneously or planned.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have recently finished reading a book called &#8220;The How Of Happiness&#8221; by Sonja Lyubomirsky. The main section of the work is a description of 12 happiness-enhancing activities. Activities 1-4 are as follows: Expressing gratitude: Counting your blessings for what you have (either to a close other or privately, through contemplation or diary-writing) or conveying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21785"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21801,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21785\/revisions\/21801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}