25: Improve Your Happiness Using Your Thinking Skills: Happiness Part 2

The science of happiness is an important topic, because we all want to be happy - but we don’t always know how to get there.

In the second part of the episodes on happiness, I dive into the relationship between happiness and cognition - how your thinking influences your happiness.

This is a powerful topic, and one that you don’t hear much about in personal development!

Understanding happiness and cognition is really going to have a strong influence on your own wellbeing so that you can further enhance the quality of your life.

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Prefer to read? Check out this episode on the blog! https://liveanintentionallife.com.au/blog/improve-your-happiness

References on happiness and cognition:

Alexander, R., Aragón, O. R., Bookwala, J., Cherbuin, N., Gatt, J. M., Kahrilas, I. J., ... & Styliadis, C. (2021). The neuroscience of positive emotions and affect: Implications for cultivating happiness and wellbeing. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 121, 220-249.

Colombo, D., Pavani, J. B., Quoidbach, J., Baños, R. M., Folgado-Alufre, M., & Botella, C. (2024). Savouring the present to better recall the past. Journal of Happiness Studies, 25(1), 20.

Emmons, R. A., & McCullough, M. E. (2003). Counting blessings versus burdens: an experimental investigation of gratitude and subjective well-being in daily life. Journal of personality and social psychology, 84(2), 377.

Layous, K., Katherine Nelson, S., & Lyubomirsky, S. (2013). What is the optimal way to deliver a positive activity intervention? The case of writing about one’s best possible selves. Journal of Happiness Studies, 14, 635-654.

Lyubomirsky, S., Sheldon, K. M., & Schkade, D. (2005). Pursuing happiness: The architecture of sustainable change. Review of general psychology, 9(2), 111-131.

Lyubomirsky, S., & Layous, K. (2013). How do simple positive activities increase well-being?. Current directions in psychological science, 22(1), 57-62.

Toepfer, S. M., & Walker, K. (2009). Letters of gratitude: Improving well-being through expressive writing. Journal of Writing Research, 1(3), 181-198.

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