Boost Your Happiness With This Exercise You Can Do While Brushing Your Teeth
Brushing your teeth only takes a couple of minutes, which makes you happier. Here’s a very easy way to learn how to look on the bright side.
Being happy is often as easy as appreciating the little things in your life. To make gratitude more regular in your life, happiness researcher Sean Achor of GoodThink and author of The Happiness Advantage recommends this simple exercise:
Try to remember three new things you love about brushing your teeth at night.
The key is to make sure the three things you come up with are really new . Be specific, never repeat elements, and try not to use some lazy “family, friends and health” option as the default. Over time, your brain will start making mental notes that you can include on your list throughout the day. It makes you appreciate things more in the moment and also later when you are thinking.
Achor experimented with this simple exercise on a group of people who were tested as “moderate pessimists” for 21 days. By the end of the study, the same group of people finished testing as “moderate optimists.” Sometimes in order to be happier, you need to find a gold lining, but you need to train yourself to look for it if you do not do it naturally.
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