How to increase your happiness

Dig into the benefits of practicing gratitude in your everyday life, and discover how being thankful can impact your happiness.

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Many people would say the connection between happiness and gratefulness is very simple: when you are happy, you are grateful. But think again. Is it really the happy people that are grateful? Quite a number of people have everything that it would take to be happy, and they are not happy. So, how does gratefulness work? Explore the key components to living gratefully.

Directed by Avi Ofer.

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[LetsTakeWalk]

“If you look for the light, you will often find it. But if you look for the dark, that is all you will see” - Uncle Iroh

[Andy_Hendrix_]

"Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will evade you, but if you notice the other things around you, it will gently come and sit on your shoulder."

-Henry David Thoreau

[knightlon]

No one has quoted this before me so I will: "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

[Asuzara]

"If you are not fearful, you are not violent."

That is so insanely true, you can even literally read the word fear (=phobia) in many violent and oppressive constructs of our society around the world.

[TomSmith-viyw]

Nothing makes us more happy than when all of us are happy..loved this line❤❤❤.. a sense of togetherness is very much needed in today's society

[alyasuramzahwani]

I've been practicing exchanging list of 3 gratitudes daily with my best-friend for almost a year now and I can confidently say that it has helped us a lot!

[Mr-ejqv]

The words "If you are not fearful, you are not violent" truly convinced me

[thirdy]

I haven't been grateful to what I had accomplished given I had a very very hard life growing up. I'd been hard on myself until this video opens my mind and heart. For a second I pause, and think There's a lot of reasons to be grateful. Thanks for this video!

[GhostOfRazgiz]

One thing I've learned lately is to avoid drama. News is the biggest source of drama in the world, and it's almost constant everywhere you go. Every day I'd read the news, watch clips and articles and keep up to date with everything going on. But it stressed me out terribly.

Then I asked myself; how much of this do I really need to know? I'm Canadian, and while it might seem important to keep an eye on things happening in Eastern Europe, I came to the conclusion that it didn't really matter to me. My ability to effect it is basically zero, and its ability to effect me is 0. The news was just stressing me out.

Same with everything going on in the USA. I can't change anything happening down there, but the constant barrage of negative news articles talking about the latest shooting, riots and w/e was stressing me out. But really, there is nothing I can do about it at all. Why should I spend any time, effort or stress on matters I literally can't do anything about?

I'll listen to the local news, and that's it. I hear a little bit at work, but generally, I've shut down anything but the local news and I feel better. I'm not stressing or angry about things happening across the world.

[CortneyBaker-luvstendbar]

I feel like I am that way. I was born that way. No matter when bad things happen i always look to the positive and I live that way to help others

[SirsasthNigam.]

"Stop, Look, Go" even applies to crossing streets

[renzcruzmabalatan]

AND THIS VIDEO MY FRIEND SILENCED MY MIND, OPENED MY HEART AND CURED MY DEPRESSION EVEN FOR JUST 6 MINUTES AND 8 SECONDS.

[Beeros]

I shall only be happy when Ted truly reveals himself.

[lostintranslation]

I tend to lose focus of gratitude and happiness but what help me get back to it is looking beyond our world into the universe and work my way back into the world and realizing how remarkable it truly is.

[Sunflowersarepretty]

It's gratitude that makes me happy. That feeling of abundance after thinking about all the things I have makes me happy. 😊

[rajdeepsinhji]

Desire for positive experience is itself a negative experience, Accepting negative experiences is itself a positive experience.

[RappingManualYT]

Creating stop signs is an awesome way of putting it! : ) : )

[food]

This man just defined my life goals in 6 minutes

[madhavsharma]

This was really good. My childhood teachers emphasised a lot on stopping and smelling the roses. After all these years i have found that the simpler advice is always the best.

[PatelArpitt]

This video brightened up my day
Probably a following few days as well.

Thanks for this TED!