From: The Washington Post
7 Simple Ways To Be A Bit Happier Each Day
With the stresses of daily life, it can often seem difficult to find moments to smell the proverbial roses.
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“You can make small changes in your life that have big effects,” said Darwin Guevarra, an assistant professor of psychology at Miami University and an author of the study.
The Big Joy Project was meant to show people that “joy is a skill they can build,” Elissa Epel, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of California at San Francisco and a study co-author, said in an email.
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In a 2022 study of 958 adults, Sonja Lyubomirsky, a professor of psychology at the University of California at Riverside, and her colleagues found that writing gratitude letters resulted in larger boosts to well-being than gratitude lists. In addition, writing gratitude letters to specific people in the participants’ lives had the greatest benefits.
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