To Be Happier: Try some of these ideas:
- Meditate but if you aren’t able to, don’t beat yourself up.
- Move (as in exercise).
- Keep a journal. Gratitude, dreams, diary. Write 15 minutes a day.
- Keep your cell phone in another room when you sleep.
- Assess your mood once a day in a clinical (non-reactive) way.
- Keep coming back to your body.
- Be generous from an open heart.
- Dance, sing, listen to music.
- Try to maintain a consistent eating and sleeping schedule.
- Experience the natural world as a time out.
- Do breathing/body exercises (square breathing/Pico-Pico): Link to breath exercise
- Do lovingkindness (metta) meditation.
- Read a book (preferably a novel).
- Remember that you are part of the human race, and we’re all in this together.