Smile and Smile Often
People start to get a sense of you within the first three seconds of meeting. Start off right by smiling. Besides making a good impression, it may also improve your mood and slash stress, boost your immune system, and briefly lower your blood pressure, too.
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🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ Take Care of You
Practice Self-care and Make Yourself a Priority.
The first step in practicing self-care is to take care of your body. Â In order to do this it is important to:
– Eat a healthy diet – research has shown that what you eat—and don’t eat—affects the way you think and feel.
–Â Exercise, which can help decrease depression and anxiety and improve moods.
–Â Get enough sleep.
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ Let’s Get Moving
Exercise & a Positive Mood Go Hand in Hand
There is another strategy for reducing stress and improving mood that not only seems to make people happier, but also yields positive long-term effects more conducive to long-term happiness: exercise. When we walk, run, bike or engage in some other form of physical exercise, we generally seem to feel happier and less anxious. . . . In addition to increased energy, physically active people may feel a sense of accomplishment in meeting personal fitness goals.Â
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🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ Kick Up the Positive Self Talk
If you say something enough times, you’re more likely to believe it. That’s the idea behind positive affirmations, statements with intention repeated numerous times to make them a part of your thinking, such as “I am feeling more peaceful each day” or “I can handle whatever comes my way.” It’s important to keep these affirmations rooted in reality. Your subconscious may flag far-fetched statements, putting you back in a negative state of mind.
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ You’re Not Getting Older, You’re Getting Better
Look Forward to Aging
Research on the topic has found that people who have a positive outlook on aging while they are young, rather than dreading growing old, have a greater chance of living longer. That’s because adjusting your opinion on aging while you’re still young can build a positive perspective that can have a tremendous effect on your life expectancy.
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ Enjoy the Sun, Rain, or Whatever the Weather
Get Outside More
Making time to go outside on a nice day also delivers a huge advantage; one study found that spending 20 minutes outside in good weather not only boosted positive mood, but broadened thinking and improved working memory.
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ Learn to Adapt
Adaptability. Life changes far more frequently and more unpredictably than most of us would like. New obstacles range from a closed road on your normal commute to a natural disaster that destroys your home, ranging from the irritating to the devastating. The happiest people in life are . . . the ones who focus on finding the best way around the obstacle. Because they’re adaptable, they don’t have to worry about life’s unpredictability. . . . Â They simply find another way forward, and proceed.
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ Life Is Good
Your Glass is Half-full.
If there’s one trait that goes hand-in-hand with happiness, it’s optimism. People who think positively are less likely to feel depressed, more productive at work, and generally healthier than their doom-and-gloom counterparts. That said, it’s important to be both optimistic and realistic instead of just blindly positive. (In fact, forcing ourselves to feel over-the-top positive may do more harm than good, especially for those of us more prone to cynical thinking.) People with a healthy combination of optimism and realism don’t let unhappy thoughts bring them down, but they use their realistic outlook to make smart decisions and actions. Talk about the best of both worlds.
