Time to seek personal happiness
Here’s what some experts recommend as we seek to create personal happiness at this time:
1. Double down on physical self-care, especially exercise. Your physical experience will always influence your emotional experience. “A mere 12-minute walk can create an upbeat, happy mood.”
2. Meditation for even five minutes at a time helps to foster inner joy and reduce stress hormones.
3. Improve sleep hygiene. A good night’s sleep is crucial to both physical and mental wellness!
4. Connect with other people, even if you are alone in quarantine. Fortunately, technology enables us to connect with anyone, anywhere, at any time. Yes, the human touch is critical to our well-being, but can be detrimental to our heath at this time. So…
5. Make your bed and declutter your space. Many people feel more inner calm and happiness whenever their surroundings are clutter-free.
6. Experience nature – even if it is virtual: still or moving pictures. Research shows that exposure to natural environments helps with general health.
7. Say thank you. Rather than complaining about what you don’t have, give thanks for what you do.
8. Pray often. Prayer moves mountains.
9. One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make others happy. So ask yourself, ‘How can I make someone from list below, happy?’ Please answer.
THANKS TO NEIGHBOUR
1. Michelle, New York, for neighbour’s food basket.
2. Juliet, St Andrew, for helping with schooling of young neighbour.
3. Neighbour, St Andrew, for delivering food and water to a needy neighbour.
KINDLY HELP SOMEONE FROM THE LIST BELOW
1. Minnette, Clarendon, retired farmer is visually impaired and in need of a stove; usually self-sufficient but met upon hard times.
2. Nickoy, Kingston, a young unemployed father asking for neighbour’s assistance to start a little jerked chicken business.
3. Seventy-year-old neighbour asking for assistance to fix ceiling.
4. Gwen, St Ann, unable to work, asking for a stove and a settee.
5. Sue, St Catherine, asking for a bunk bed.
6. Breadwinner, unemployed since March due to COVID-19, asking for help to feed family.