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		<title>By: Dummoultduh</title>
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		<title>By: A Transforming Practice &#124; Living Skillfully: Your Mind and Health</title>
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		<dc:creator>A Transforming Practice &#124; Living Skillfully: Your Mind and Health</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] is research around this; Improved Lives cites a study by Martin Seligman and colleagues which found that a similar exercise was the most [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] is research around this; Improved Lives cites a study by Martin Seligman and colleagues which found that a similar exercise was the most [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Stu</title>
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		<dc:creator>Stu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great comment Duff, lots of interesting thoughts.

If your life was significantly improved with your friends and family then why wouldn&#039;t you be an 8/10? It&#039;s true that we have a baseline level of happiness that we return to but it&#039;s also true that if you work at it you can change the baseline level.

I&#039;m planning on writing a post on this soon but if you want to learn about the connection between brain malleability and raised happiness levels check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://pos-psych.com/news/kathryn-britton/20080607790&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; over at Positive Psychology News Daily. The connections between neurobiology and personal growth are really fascinating and hold a lot of potential I think.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great comment Duff, lots of interesting thoughts.</p>
<p>If your life was significantly improved with your friends and family then why wouldn&#8217;t you be an 8/10? It&#8217;s true that we have a baseline level of happiness that we return to but it&#8217;s also true that if you work at it you can change the baseline level.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m planning on writing a post on this soon but if you want to learn about the connection between brain malleability and raised happiness levels check out <a href="http://pos-psych.com/news/kathryn-britton/20080607790" rel="nofollow">this post</a> over at Positive Psychology News Daily. The connections between neurobiology and personal growth are really fascinating and hold a lot of potential I think.</p>
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		<title>By: Duff</title>
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		<dc:creator>Duff</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Interesting research. Thanks for this.

Exercises 2 and 4 are the most likely to become habits, even unconsciously, because they immediately feel good, yet don&#039;t require much work like 1 and 5. 4 is also very practical, unlike 3, and starts by having you think about your strengths, which is likely to induce a positive affect.

3 is probably most disappointing because it involves a comparison to how you &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be behaving and acting, and thus can encourage perfectionism. Comparing your current actions to your potentially best actions is a great way to feel like you aren&#039;t performing at your best!

1 probably doesn&#039;t lead to lasting results in happiness because you&#039;d need to practice it regularly, but are unlikely to do so because of the reflection and work involved, and because there aren&#039;t that many major life events to apologize for. Of course it may clear up and heal interpersonal conflicts and lead to more ease or wholeness, something that happiness studies don&#039;t seem to consider valuable enough to measure.

For example, let&#039;s say that I take a happiness survey today and report that I&#039;m generally at 7/10 for happiness. I go see a therapist and clear up some major trauma in my past around family and relationships, which makes me really happy for a while but then come back to my regular 7/10 feeling 6 months later. But my life is significantly improved with my family and relationships, even though I don&#039;t feel ecstatic or bubbly all the time. Isn&#039;t this real progress? Do we need to be bubbling over with joy to consider ourselves happy?

Just some thoughts...keep up the good blogging. :)
~Duff</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Interesting research. Thanks for this.</p>
<p>Exercises 2 and 4 are the most likely to become habits, even unconsciously, because they immediately feel good, yet don&#8217;t require much work like 1 and 5. 4 is also very practical, unlike 3, and starts by having you think about your strengths, which is likely to induce a positive affect.</p>
<p>3 is probably most disappointing because it involves a comparison to how you <em>could</em> be behaving and acting, and thus can encourage perfectionism. Comparing your current actions to your potentially best actions is a great way to feel like you aren&#8217;t performing at your best!</p>
<p>1 probably doesn&#8217;t lead to lasting results in happiness because you&#8217;d need to practice it regularly, but are unlikely to do so because of the reflection and work involved, and because there aren&#8217;t that many major life events to apologize for. Of course it may clear up and heal interpersonal conflicts and lead to more ease or wholeness, something that happiness studies don&#8217;t seem to consider valuable enough to measure.</p>
<p>For example, let&#8217;s say that I take a happiness survey today and report that I&#8217;m generally at 7/10 for happiness. I go see a therapist and clear up some major trauma in my past around family and relationships, which makes me really happy for a while but then come back to my regular 7/10 feeling 6 months later. But my life is significantly improved with my family and relationships, even though I don&#8217;t feel ecstatic or bubbly all the time. Isn&#8217;t this real progress? Do we need to be bubbling over with joy to consider ourselves happy?</p>
<p>Just some thoughts&#8230;keep up the good blogging. <img src='http://www.improvedlives.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
~Duff</p>
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		<title>By: Stu</title>
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		<dc:creator>Stu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 19:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>ok you&#039;re right, done. I hope this wasn&#039;t all a big song and dance just to get at my pretty picture :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ok you&#8217;re right, done. I hope this wasn&#8217;t all a big song and dance just to get at my pretty picture <img src='http://www.improvedlives.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: FekketCantenel</title>
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		<dc:creator>FekketCantenel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 18:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Even if the legality of crediting the original isn&#039;t an issue, I still think it&#039;s good show to link back. It&#039;s publicity for SXC and the original photographer, and plus, if I want to use the image in one of my own projects, I&#039;ll know where to get it.

You can get both the companion and whole book on Amazon used for like $2, but I think even pirated ebooks are around here somewhere. Or, as Levar Burton said, check your local library!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Even if the legality of crediting the original isn&#8217;t an issue, I still think it&#8217;s good show to link back. It&#8217;s publicity for SXC and the original photographer, and plus, if I want to use the image in one of my own projects, I&#8217;ll know where to get it.</p>
<p>You can get both the companion and whole book on Amazon used for like $2, but I think even pirated ebooks are around here somewhere. Or, as Levar Burton said, check your local library!</p>
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		<title>By: Stu</title>
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		<dc:creator>Stu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 17:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you Fekket, no matter how many times I go over posts I always seem to miss something.

The image is from www.sxc.hu and from what I can tell in their licensing agreement I&#039;m not bound to link to the original, but I might be wrong, I&#039;ll look in to it when I get a chance.

The three good things in life exercise really is a good one. I was already doing it before I read this study but this only confirms how useful it is.

I agree that looking for past successes is important, and that&#039;s interesting that it&#039;s linked to self-efficacy like that. I think where that exercise fails is that it doesn&#039;t go far enough with personal strengths. Just identifying and thinking about your strengths isn&#039;t going to do much.

And thanks for the tip-off on Dr. Phil, I&#039;m going to see what I can find out about that book of his.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you Fekket, no matter how many times I go over posts I always seem to miss something.</p>
<p>The image is from <a href="http://www.sxc.hu" rel="nofollow">http://www.sxc.hu</a> and from what I can tell in their licensing agreement I&#8217;m not bound to link to the original, but I might be wrong, I&#8217;ll look in to it when I get a chance.</p>
<p>The three good things in life exercise really is a good one. I was already doing it before I read this study but this only confirms how useful it is.</p>
<p>I agree that looking for past successes is important, and that&#8217;s interesting that it&#8217;s linked to self-efficacy like that. I think where that exercise fails is that it doesn&#8217;t go far enough with personal strengths. Just identifying and thinking about your strengths isn&#8217;t going to do much.</p>
<p>And thanks for the tip-off on Dr. Phil, I&#8217;m going to see what I can find out about that book of his.</p>
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		<title>By: FekketCantenel</title>
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		<dc:creator>FekketCantenel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 16:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Typo alert: &quot;The research looked at two different things, how much the happiness &lt;b&gt;exercies&lt;/b&gt;&quot;

Where did you get the photo at the top of the article? If you found it on Flickr or something, shouldn&#039;t you link to where you got it?

My own strengths test pointed out that I&#039;m terrible with gratitude, so maybe I really need to try the &quot;Three Good Things in Life&quot;.

The &quot;You At Your Best&quot; exercise reminds me of Dr Phil&#039;s &#039;The Self Matters Companion&#039;, which had a few similar exercises. I remember having a lot of difficulty with them, since I was much younger at the time and didn&#039;t have any real accomplishments under my belt. I guess I can see how doing it could actually depress a person; however, I think it&#039;s relevant to look for past successes sometimes. After all, one quarter of self-efficacy (according to Wikipedia) is &#039;past experience&#039;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Typo alert: &#8220;The research looked at two different things, how much the happiness <b>exercies</b>&#8221;</p>
<p>Where did you get the photo at the top of the article? If you found it on Flickr or something, shouldn&#8217;t you link to where you got it?</p>
<p>My own strengths test pointed out that I&#8217;m terrible with gratitude, so maybe I really need to try the &#8220;Three Good Things in Life&#8221;.</p>
<p>The &#8220;You At Your Best&#8221; exercise reminds me of Dr Phil&#8217;s &#8216;The Self Matters Companion&#8217;, which had a few similar exercises. I remember having a lot of difficulty with them, since I was much younger at the time and didn&#8217;t have any real accomplishments under my belt. I guess I can see how doing it could actually depress a person; however, I think it&#8217;s relevant to look for past successes sometimes. After all, one quarter of self-efficacy (according to Wikipedia) is &#8216;past experience&#8217;.</p>
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