The above is from an post on one of my favorite blogs from a book on happiness- "Delivery Happiness" by Tony Hsieh. He's the business mastermind behind the Zappos brand.
Here are a few tips from Rick Hanson’'s Buddha’s Brain for strengthening your positive neural circuitry:
- Turn positive facts into positive experiences. Good things keep happening all around us, but much of the time we don't notice them; even when we do, we often hardly feel them. Whatever positive facts you find, bring a mindful awareness to them open up to them and let them affect you. It's like sitting down to a banquet; don't just look at it dig in!
- Savor the experience. Make it last by staying with it for 5, 10, even 20 seconds; don't let your attention skitter off to something else. The longer that something is held in awareness and the more emotionally stimulating it is, the more neurons that fire and thus wire together, and the stronger the trace in memory (Lewis 2005).
