They also found that people who naturally combined this activity with: doing more acts of kindness towards others and feeling more gratitude for kind acts from others towards themselves; experienced even larger increases in happiness:
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Count Your Acts of Kindness
For the next week, keep a record of the number of times you are kind to others. Otake et al (2006) found that doing this simple activity, for one week, lifted people's levels of happiness for at least a month.
They also found that people who naturally combined this activity with: doing more acts of kindness towards others and feeling more gratitude for kind acts from others towards themselves; experienced even larger increases in happiness:
They also found that people who naturally combined this activity with: doing more acts of kindness towards others and feeling more gratitude for kind acts from others towards themselves; experienced even larger increases in happiness:
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Just logged into my karma account to check the current balance and it seems i'm doing ok but there is always room for growth. the interest rates are fantastic with 'gratitude' and 'happiness' dividends much better than those offered by commercial banks or the old 'get out of purgatory early' passes the vatican used to sell that some prude named martin railed against... all in all it seems like a good idea you have there Rachel and Otake et al results are hardly surprising to the initiated... if you don't remember your karma account log in details, try your santa 'naughty or nice' account... should have similar balances though i am not sure the santa a/c follows you beyond this life, unlike karma... perhaps one really can take it with you
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Charlie