{"id":1284,"date":"2008-10-06T10:48:11","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T15:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145696.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2008-10-06T10:48:11","modified_gmt":"2008-10-06T15:48:11","slug":"learning-to-create-happiness-all-around-three-really-easy-ways-to-boost-your-mood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/articles\/learning-to-create-happiness-all-around-three-really-easy-ways-to-boost-your-mood\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Create Happiness All Around Us :: Three Really Easy Ways to Boost Your Mood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you hope to be happy, smiling and ready to make change in the world? Well, here are some helpful mood boosting tips to help us reach those happy goals:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1287\" src=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/things-to-be-happy-about1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/things-to-be-happy-about1.jpg 1112w, https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/things-to-be-happy-about1-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/things-to-be-happy-about1-600x391.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/> 1. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thingstobehappyabout.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Things to Be Happy About<\/strong><\/a> site (shown above) shares quotes to lift your mood daily. This is one of <a href=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/2008\/06\/23\/i-love-my-diy-meditation-made-easy-guide\/#comments\" target=\"_blank\">my favorite<\/a> sites because of the open knowledge sharing and fun approach to each topic.<\/p>\n<p>2. In recently reading about resilience on <a href=\"http:\/\/health.yahoo.com\/mentalhealth-treatment\/learning-to-recover\/pt--Psychology_Today_articles_pto-20030619-000001.html\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo<\/a> I learned: &#8220;<em>You need to know what resilience is so that you can remember that you have it. <strong>Resilience is an emotional muscle that can grow with use and practice<\/strong> &#8212; or atrophy if ignored.<\/em>&#8221; The simplest way to go beyond your comfort zone is to<strong> learn a new skill<em>.<\/em><\/strong> Here are some  more key take-aways about finding resilience:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<blockquote>\n<li> Everyone can grow this emotional muscle and needs to.<\/li>\n<li>Stop thinking of yourself as a victim and instead start thinking of yourself as a problem-solver.<\/li>\n<li>Risk builds resilience, so it is cool to go just beyond your comfort zone for challenge.<\/li>\n<li>Choose a hero, a grandparent or teacher, for example.<\/li>\n<li>Patience: as you become less reactive, you become more resilient.<\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/ul>\n<p>3. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikihow.com\/Be-Happy\" target=\"_blank\">Wikihow<\/a> says to <strong>relax, smile, be thankful, be yourself, focus, make others happy<\/strong> and <strong>take   the good with the bad <\/strong>to develop healthy relationships. A couple extra tips they share are: &#8220;<em><strong>Try thinking of a creative vow and write it down<\/strong><\/em>.<em> Make it something like: I vow to give at least one compliment to someone each day and I&#8217;ll try to control my anger by counting in my head before reacting.&#8221;<\/em> and &#8220;<em><strong>Happiness requires balance.<\/strong><\/em> <em>Don&#8217;t become so caught up in your own happiness that you forget about everyone else&#8217;s.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I hope your day is a little brighter remembering we all have a beautiful inner smile that shines outward with love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you hope to be happy, smiling and ready to make change in the world? Well, here are some helpful mood boosting tips to help us reach those happy goals: 1. The Things to Be Happy About site (shown above) shares quotes to lift your mood daily. This is one of my favorite sites because [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/articles\/learning-to-create-happiness-all-around-three-really-easy-ways-to-boost-your-mood\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":1287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false},"categories":[661,15],"tags":[2171,2172,2173,2174,2175,2176],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/things-to-be-happy-about1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}