The Science of Happiness

For a very long time physchiatry thought that 'positive thinking' was just another form of denial. They focused instead on finding ways to deal with painful emotions. Getting to the root of the problem, reliving ugly emotions then through prolonged sessions hopefully coming to some form of acceptance and coping stragedy.

(I'm thinking, lots of billable hours, great for business).

Recently a Harvard School study found out that by working on people's strength's instead of their weaknesses, brought much quicker results. After all phychoanlysis doesn't get people sober. AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) gets people sober.

So in order to deal successfully and quicker with people's deep seated problems we need to address their strength's, which also are the things that make us happy (we already know what makes us sad or depressed).

Here are some of things, those brainac's found make us happy:

-having intimate relationships

-socializing (feeds our need to belong)

-nature (trees, water and animals etc)

-seeing joy (a child laughing, a kittens purr or a puppy wagging his tail)

- foregiveness

and number uno....an optimistic attitude!

Sheesh...forget the drugs and the intense prolonged psychoanlysis! Just put a big goofy grin on your face and live your life with the unwavering belief that life will be good and abundant. And as you belive so it will be (sounds like a bible quote, huh). Seems to me this is a recipe to put a lot of those guys out of work!