{"id":21789,"date":"2017-08-16T07:18:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T06:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=21789"},"modified":"2017-08-16T07:18:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T06:18:07","slug":"the-how-of-happiness-activities-9-10-11-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=21789","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The How Of Happiness&#8221; &#8211; activities 9, 10, 11, 12"},"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 9-12 are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Savouring life&#8217;s joys: Paying close attention, taking delight and replaying life&#8217;s momentary pleasures and wonders &#8211; through thinking, writing, drawing or sharing with another.<\/li>\n<li>Committing to your goals: Picking one, two or three significant goals that are meaningful to you and devoting time and effort to pursuing them.<\/li>\n<li>Praticising religion and spirituality: Becoming more involved in your church, temple or mosque, or reading and pondering spiritually-themed books.<\/li>\n<li>Taking care of your body: Engaging in physical activity, meditating, and smiling and laughing.<\/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 9-12 are as follows: Savouring life&#8217;s joys: Paying close attention, taking delight and replaying life&#8217;s momentary pleasures and wonders &#8211; through thinking, writing, drawing or sharing [&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-21789","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\/21789","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=21789"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21802,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21789\/revisions\/21802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}