What would it be like if you found out that you had a million dollars in a secret bank account, but you didn’t know it? Wouldn’t that be great? Well, in a certain way you do. You have enormous riches locked within you in the form of positive feelings—such as love, gratitude, compassion, and joy. The problem is, most people haven’t known how to access these feelings. Yet, the new field of Positive Psychology has developed simple exercises that can help anyone feel greater levels of happiness.
For those who don’t know about Positive Psychology exercises, they’re simple methods that have mostly been developed by psychologist Dr. Marty Seligman. According to numerous studies, these quick methods can greatly boost your level of happiness. Since we’re all trying to be happier, having a “technology” that’s been shown to really work is cause for celebration. People currently use very inefficient methods of being happier—such as trying to make a lot of money or have fewer wrinkles. While such things work a smidgen, Positive Psychology exercises have been proven to work much, much better in creating feelings of true well-being.
You may be wondering, if these simple exercises work so well, then why don’t more people know about them? The reason is that there is not a lot of money to be made in teaching Positive Psychology exercises. You can make a lot of money selling pills—such as antidepressants—but there is very little money to be made teaching exercises that change people’s lives.
For better or worse, that’s my job
I sell (for very little money I might add), a systematic course in teaching people the best and most powerful ways to quickly boost their level of happiness. There are over 30 methods in my Deeper Happiness course that have been shown to boost people’s level of happiness, and most of them take under three minutes a day to do. That’s great news. It’s like learning you had a million dollars lying around in the bank, but you didn’t know it.
Let me give you a couple of really quick examples of what I mean. One Positive Psychologyexercise is to do a Gratitude Journal. By writing down three things you feel grateful for during each day, your level of satisfaction with your life will gradually rise. To “turbo charge” your Gratitude Journal, you could include a sentence on how something about you helped make each of those good things happen. For instance, let’s say that one of the things you were grateful for was a good conversation with a friend. To make that statement even more powerful, you could say how your open heartedness helped you to create that experience.
Science often helps us discover things that seem to defy logic. It makes no sense that a 50 ton airplane can fly, but it obviously can. Likewise, it makes no sense that a simple 2 minute Positive Psychology exercise typically brings more joy into your life than if you suddenly doubled your income. But that’s what numerous studies have indicated. As I said, not knowing about the potential power of Positive Psychology exercises is like not knowing you have a million dollars in your bank account.
Now that you know that Positive Psychology exercises can truly impact your life, you have to figure out what, if anything, to do about it. Most people—because they have been hypnotized by their culture, will continue to put all their hope into finding happiness through ineffective means. They’ll hope that more money changes their life, or hope that the next relationship will magically make them fulfilled. Such endeavors will surely keep them busy, but are unlikely to help them discover the treasure of positive feelings living inside them.
Other people will do such things as read books about how to be happier
Although such books contain valuable information, virtually no one uses what they read from books in a systematic manner in their daily life. It’s just too big of a jump. What’s needed is a simple, almost automatic way to be reminded to use Positive Psychology exercises in daily life.
That’s why I created the Deeper Happiness daily audio program for learning and using such exercises. In the program, a person listens to a fun 15-minute talk each morning before they get to work that details a great Positive Psychology exercise. Then, their task is to use that simple exercise sometime during their day. I created the program so that people could really incorporate these great exercises into their daily lives. Most the exercises take only 2 minutes a day to do, and the supplied reminder cards help a person to remember to do the exercises.
The typical result of doing these simple techniques days after day is that your life feels more purposeful, fun, joyous, and meaningful. Soon, you learn which methods really work amazingly well for you, and which don’t seem like a good fit. Once you find simple ways to help you quickly overcome negative feelings and tune into positive feelings, your life will never be the same. It will be like finally having complete access to that secret bank account of riches. You can even get the first three Positive Psychology exercises from the Deeper Happiness program for free here. You’ll be amazed at how well these simple methods can improve the quality of your life, health, and relationships.
You are living in a dangerous cult. I mean it. Of course, like most people in cults, you don’t think it’s dangerous—or that it’s even a cult. This “cult” that you (and I) are living in is the hyper capitalist economic system of modern day life.
happiness that we are all on, you can’t assume anything that you’ve heard. Unfortunately, our culture is constantly pushing its ideas about finding the “good life” onto us, and that brainwashing does not necessarily have anything to do with being happy. After all, does Donald Trump look joyous to you? In the last twenty years, the average GDP of Chinese citizens has gone up 400%, and yet their average level of happiness has actually gone down.
Here’s just one example. Highly contented people tend to schedule time each week for activities they truly enjoy. On the other hand, unhappy people tend to make excuses as to why they don’t have time for what they really like to do. Here’s another example. Happy people make being with friends and enjoying life a central priority in their life, whereas less contented folks make things like making money their main priority.
that the American Dream is actually a repetitive, busy, and not too unpleasant nightmare. I soon realized that always striving for more, always being busy, and constantly competing for recognition was not a path to greater peace of mind. As I began to see through the brainwashing of Western culture, I began to notice what really made me happy. What really made me happy wasn’t having bouncy hair, a big house, or a Mercedes. It ends up it was little moments of depth and joy I could find in everyday life. Nowadays, I spend more time playing with my dog, watching sunsets, hanging out with my friends, reading great books, and meditating.