{"id":21787,"date":"2017-08-15T07:33:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T06:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=21787"},"modified":"2017-08-15T07:33:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T06:33:05","slug":"the-how-of-happiness-activities-5-6-7-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=21787","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The How Of Happiness&#8221; &#8211; activities 5, 6, 7, 8"},"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 5-8 are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nurturing relationships: Picking a relationship in need of strengthening and investing time and energy in healing, cultivating, affirming and enjoying it.<\/li>\n<li>Developing strategies for coping: Practising ways to endure or surmount a recent stress, hardship or trauma.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Doing more activities that truly engage you: Increasing the number of experiences at home and at work in which you &#8216;lose&#8217; yourself, which are challenging and absorbing (i.e. &#8216;flow&#8217; experiences).<\/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 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 [&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-21787","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\/21787","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=21787"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21800,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21787\/revisions\/21800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}