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Monday Sep 05, 2016
How to rewire your brain for happiness and why it is important
Monday Sep 05, 2016
Monday Sep 05, 2016
When talking about happiness, there’s awonderful book called “The Happiness Advantage” written by Shawn Achor fromHarvard. In this book, he lists that:
· There are over 200 studies doneon over 275,000 people that include happiness leads to success and nearly everydomain of our lives – including marriage, friendship, health, community,involvement, creativity, jobs, career and business.
· Happy workers have higher levelof productivity, produce higher level of results, perform better in leadershippositions, receive higher performance ratings, receive higher pay and enjoymore job stability. They are also less likely to take sick days, quit, orbecome burned out
· Happy CEOs are more likely tolead teams of employees where both happy and healthy who find their workclimate conducive to high performance.
Now a lot of people have said this – some peopleare born with it, some people are not. After all the research done by thisgentleman and all the others, they’ve concluded that you can actually rewireyour brain for happiness – they call it “The Happiness Advantage.”
Meditation – 5 to 10 minutes of meditationeach day. Studies show that it can actually grow your pre-frontal cortex – the partof your brain responsible for feeling happy. Regular mediation for 5 to 10minutes per day can rewire your brain to raise the levels of happiness, lowerstress and even improve immune function.
Finding something to look forward to –anticipating future rewards can actually light up the center pleasures of yourbrain as much as the actual reward well.
Commit conscious acts of kindness – decreasesstress and strongly contributes to enhanced mental health
Induced positivity in your surroundings – wehave a lesson in our Rapid Results Formula 2.0 online program which is called “CleaningUp your Environment.” What it means is going around and give you a simplerating system and how to rate every single element of the environment aroundyou that is either slowing you down or speeding you up to be more productive orless productive. If it is something that is slowing you down, we give you tipson how to revise it, get rid of it or how to update it.