Learn the science of happy

Positive psychology is all the rage these days (okay it has probably been for some time) and to tell you the truth I have been drinking the Kool-Aid. One aspect of this that I find very interesting is that now it has become a science. No, really I have found article after article regarding the “science of happiness”, but what does this science say and how does it work?

After reading blog after blog and one web page after the other I have realized that they all say very much the same things just in many different ways. Some I have to admit have found very cute and interactive ways of saying it. One website I came across refers to it as happify (I found it to be a fun way of putting it). The happify website adopts an S.T.A.G.E framework which are basically five happiness skills that will help you build your happiness.

The five key happiness skills include: Savor, Thank, Aspire, Give, and Empathize.

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