Casaundra And Gratitude

In “Happiness 101,” Harvard professor Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar presents his ideas pertaining to the achievability of happiness. He begins by discussing how individuals must give themselves permission to be human, so that they can feel the negative feelings before they reach the positive feelings. If negative feelings are held back without release, then they only intensify eventually blocking out the positive feelings. Ben-Shahar continues his presentation to the topic of managing stress on the micro, mezza, and macro levels. These levels include the ideas of meditation, sleep, taking time off, vacations, and the “three deep breaths.” Simplifying agendas and practicing quality over quantity has a positive effect on stress levels as well. At the conclusion of his presentation, Ben-Shahar discusses the positive effect of practicing gratitude on health, happiness, and well-being. After listening to Tal Ben-Shahar’s presentation, I completely agree with every point that Ben-Shahar uses over the topics of giving permission to be human, stress management, and practicing gratitude covered throughout his presentation over happiness.

Capitalism vs. the Climate” “a book of such ambition and consequence that it is almost unreviewable.[1]” Naomi Klein researches the impact of Climate change and its relationship with free market capitalism. She discusses capitalism as failed economic system. She goes into great depth on the subject of resource extraction, pollution and the events of surrounding the affected communities in these regions across the world. However, rather than concluding that things are hopeless Naomi Klein argues that: We can build something better and

When it comes to gun control, a considerable number of people assume it is the guns that cause the deaths that mass shootings and firearm crimes see. However, there shall never be a direct focus on the firearms themselves, but instead a focus on those who are using said weapons. Take a moment to stop and ask yourself, will a handgun kill somebody if it is just sitting on a table. No, that will never happen, to cause a gunshot to go off a being has to handle the firearm. The last thing needed in America is for mentally unstable people or a convicted felon/criminal being the one behind the trigger. Mistakenly Americans want control on the guns themselves, instead of also controlling the people buying the arms. Which the way to manage who gains access to weapons is to simply make the background checks more vigorous. Along with background checks, make new stipulations on who can buy and handle weapons and keep track of all gun sales, this includes private dealers.

Consistently, the most successful approach to improving our happiness is to achieve a state of gratitude. Think of the happiest people you know, they will invariably be grateful people. Conversely, think of the most unhappy people you know and they will rarely be grateful people. If you are a pessimist by nature (50% of our happiness is in our genes) you may need to work harder to achieve a state of gratitude, but here is an approach that has been repeatedly proven in hundreds of studies to improve happiness.

Results confirmed the hypothesis with positive correlations with happiness and hope (r = 0.70), zest (r = 0.48), gratitude (r = 0.45), love (r = 0.43) and curiosity (r = 0.50). However, it was found the character strengths in this study with the highest positive correlations with happiness were hope (r = 0.70), curiosity (r = 0.50), social intelligence (r = 0.49), zest (r = 0.48) and bravery (r =.45). Bravery and social intelligence were different character strengths found in the top five correlations with happiness in this study. Compared to findings from previous research which found gratitude and love in their top five correlations with happiness (Peterson & Park, 2007; Hausler, Strecker, Huber, Brenner, Höge & Höfer,

Gratitude abundance teaches you how to be thankful for the little things. This will change your way of thinking so that you can use the power of positive thinking to get the things that you really

Along with life and liberty, the pursuit of happiness is among the most fundamental ideals in American society. The men who founded the United States of America in the late 18th century listed these three values as “unalienable rights” for the citizens of the new nation they were forming. In a recent study looking at the pursuit of happiness, Lyubomirsky, Sheldon, and Schkade state, “If it is meaningful and important to pursue happiness, then it is crucial to find out how this can be accomplished” (2005, p. 126). In later work, Sheldon and Lyubomirsky (2006) observe that little research has been done to uncover the exact methods in which happiness increases. The views offered by the authors of these previous research projects are vital to the current investigation because there is evidence that even though happiness is pursued, happiness is not accomplished by the majority of Americans. A Harris Poll, recently published by Harris Interactive (2013), reveals that only 33% of Americans are very happy. This infers that over 200,000,000 Americans could be happier. Sin and Lyubomirsky (2009) report that people in individualist cultures (of which the United States is a clear example) benefit more from positive psychological interventions, such as acts of kindness and activities involving gratitude.

For two weeks, a group of 48 people who were on waiting list to receive Psychotherapy, participated in a journal of Happiness study. The group was split into three smaller groups. One group kept a gratitude Journal, another kept a kind of sternal, and the last group kept a journal that focused on their emotions, tasks, and relationships. McKinney concluded with this, “according to researchers, those in the kindness and gratitude groups built a sense of connectedness, and hand satisfaction with daily life, increased optimism, and reduced anxiety.” (McKinney). In fact, for some of those who participated, the benefits from the studies help to offset some of the problems they were seeking help for

Next, we can find happiness in different ways. For example, the video that surveyed people´s happiness concluded that gratitude is the key to happiness. In addition, Jonny Barnes proves this conclusion, as well. People appreciate him as a decent person who just wants to make people happy, and as someone said

1194), and is oftentimes experienced when an individual has had something kind done for them (Algoe, Fredrickson, & Gable, 2013). Research indicates that feeling grateful increases comfort in expressing concerns about one’s relationship (Lambert & Fincham, 2011), increases overall relationship satisfaction (Schramm, Marshall, Harris, & Lee, 2005), and fosters a greater desire to maintain one’s relationship (Gordon, Impett, Kogan, Oveis, & Keltner, 2012). Additionally, feelings and expressions of gratitude in relationships promote pro-social and helping behavior (Bartlett & DeSteno, 2006; McCullough, Kilpatrick, Emmons, & Larson, 2001; Tsang, 2006) and foster positive reframing of negative situations (Lambert, Graham, & Fincham, 2009). In light of this literature, it would be appropriate to infer that high feelings of gratitude towards one’s partner would transfer to high feelings of relationship satisfaction by the partner feeling grateful. However, there is a substantial gap in the literature concerning the direct link between gratitude and relationship satisfaction, so the current study aims to explore this

The current study aimed to investigate the affect that both mindfulness and benevolence has on life satisfaction among undergraduate psychology students. Mindfulness and benevolence are both positive aspects, so as expected past research has found a positive relationship between these traits and life satisfaction. Consistent findings of the relationship between benevolence and life satisfaction were found, especially when relationships are involved (Ryff and Keyes 1995). The results were analysed using a Pearson’s correlation followed by a regression (.112), this shown a very weak correlation between benevolence and life satisfaction, however no correlation between mindfulness and life satisfaction (.264) which is an unexpected result due to results from past research.

Then one day last week, while driving home during rush hour traffic I heard a story on the radio about a monk named David Steindl-Rast who believes that gratitude is the key to happiness. He was quoted as saying, “We all know people who have lots of misfortunes that we ourselves would not want to have, and they are deeply happy, they radiate happiness,” he says. Why are they like this? “Because they are grateful. It is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.”

Credibility establishment: In an article entitled “Happiness for a lifetime” published in the 2010 issue of the Greater Good Magazine, psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky discusses a key insight from her research conducted with colleagues Ken Sheldon and Dave Schkade. 1. 50% of happiness is in our genes (a relatively small %), 40% in behavior and daily activities, and 10% on lifestyle. 2. In one of the studies, they asked one group of students to do all five of their acts of kindness in one single day (they felt one single day and a small act would be more powerful), did succeed in making them happier, when the acts were small and conducted that day, it was more powerful to be more concentrated “Why might kindness have these kinds of effects on our happiness? I believe that when you are kind and generous to others, you start to see yourself as a generous person, so it’s good for your self-perception. Plus, it helps you see yourself as interconnected to others, it makes you interpret other people’s behavior more charitably, and it relieves distress over other people’s misfortune—all things that are good for happiness.

“Thou shalt not kill” the bible says, yet since 1976 including 2017 1463 people have been executed in the United States. Since capital punishment was first put on the books in 18th century B.C. capital punishment has often been surrounded by controversy ranging from the moral and religious concerns like above to economic issues. However despite all this debate and increasing disapproval, the death penalty is still legal in 31 states and used by the federal government today. The death penalty even made it through a moratorium by the supreme court from 1968 through 1977 to determine the death penalty's constitutionality. This persistence of capital punishments use throughout the United States despite its controversy would not be possible without one thing however, supporters and politicians belief that executions deter murder. This notion seems like a common sense conclusion, people do not want to die so they would not kill if it put them at risk of being killed. Thus, the hypothesis of this research is that the death penalty is a successful deterrent to murder. For the purpose of this research the death penalty will mean “... the lawful infliction of death as a punishment … used in the United States … carried out by one of five lawful means: electrocution, hanging, lethal injection, gas chamber, and firing squad” ( Gale Encyclopedia of American Law). Another other important term to define is murder which for this paper will mean, “ The unlawful killing of another human being

“(1) that gratitude and forgiveness are related to greater life satisfaction and psychological well-being, and (2) that the latter are increased by gratitude and forgiveness interventions.”