How to feel happy and stay that way? Experts on the science of ‘rewiring’ your brain
Want to feel happier? It is not about circumstances, but mindset, experts say – try practising gratitude, mindfulness, being kind and more
Happiness can be elusive. When you get what you expect will bring happiness – a cool new job, a flashy car, the date you always wanted – for a time, you feel great.
That is the problem with thinking that happiness comes from changes in our environment, says Laurie Santos, a professor of psychology at Yale University in the US.
“One of the worst things about happiness is that we get used to the good stuff,” she says.
Santos was speaking at a webinar called “Can You Train Your Mind to be Happy?”, organised by the New York-based online Happiness Studies Academy. The academy is a science-based organisation co-founded by Professor Tal Ben-Shahar, a positive psychology expert who taught popular courses on happiness at Harvard.