MAKE YOURSELF FEEL HAPPIER INSTANTLY

To instantly increase happiness, increase positivity and decrease stress

you can do this when you're having a tough day when you're feeling a little or

 when you're having a good day and you want to feel even better and for

 me these three things always work they're also scientifically proven they're

 easy to do they're totally free and you can do them whenever  

so, 

 the first thing is is to stop what you're

 doing and take 3 nice long deep conscious breaths the breath is such

 a powerful tool and it's so important for our mental and physical health and

 when we breathe in such a way a number of things happen when breathing

 deeply taking in plenty of oxygen we cool our nervous system and stimulate it

 to decrease the stress hormones cortisol and adrenaline thus reducing stress

 and increasing calm it also stimulates our body to detoxify improves our

 posture and releases endorphins which boost our mood and naturally

 alleviate pain deep conscious breathing is a form of meditation of mindfulness

 which promotes mental clarity and happiness and by focusing on the rhythm

of our breaths we get in here and now and out of our minds our thought world

 which is causing us stress it only takes a few conscious deep breaths to

 suddenly notice the warm sunlight through your windows the clouds in the sky

 or the smell of your flowers on the coffee table it really is a wonderful

thing  after taking your three breaths the next thing you do is think of something that you're grateful of,

 it can be anything just really allow yourself to be happy and grateful about it

 many studies regarding happiness have shown that gratitude is a wonderful way to increase happiness and reduce stress being conscious

 about feeling content and grateful has a direct impact on our mood and if you're the type of 

it after taking your three

 breaths and practicing gratitude the last thing you do is you take your cell

 phone and you place it somewhere in your home far away from where you

 are preferably in another room or in a drawer and then leaving it there for at

 least an hour now I am NOT anti cellphone or anything like that but we do

 know that a lot of us spend a lot of time on our phones in fact there are studies

 that show that ninety percent of us are addicted to our phones in one way or

 another and while our phones offer us  many good and fun things there are

 also considerable upsides to limiting our cell phone use, for

 example being hunched over our smartphone puts excessive stress on our

 back and neck muscles which is bad for our posture and staring at the small

 text and artificial lighting of your phone can also cause eye strain and even

 headaches but  the most important thing is that even

 though we don't realize it always being connected is stressing us out there is

 no moment's peace because our text messages and social media messages

 follow us wherever we go and if you can read your work email on your phone

 that's even more so looking at your phone really takes us out of reality out of

 experiencing the present moment and into our thoughts and our worries by

 taking a conscious break from all that by placing the phone away can really

 help us to relax and come back to the here and now it helps to calm our mind

 and therefore our body it's like taking a short vacation without the wifi.