India is studying happiness in an effort to bring happiness studies into schools. Certainly being absorbed in productive, creative activities can be very rewarding.
A wonderful article from Thailand Times linking flow states to happiness disappeared from their site. Creative flow states as described by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi are often linked to happiness.We don’t disagree that creative flow states can be a source of happiness. It is easy to get lost in the flow> and loose site of what you have to do and what you really want to achieve.
We found habitually happy people were generally very time conscious, they tended to schedule their time not their tasks. Time was generally their limiting resource.
Being concerned about time protected them from getting lost in the flow and loosing site of what they really want to achieve.
The Mercury News reports Clairmont College in California is initiating a doctoral program in Happiness. They will research “What makes people happy?”
We wonder, why not ask, “How can people make themselves happy?” Isn’t our goal to be happy and find ways to live a happier, more spiritually successful life?
We agree with Will Wilkinson’s Happiness & Public Policy Blog about happiness research. Today’s posting is, as always, very sophisticated and complete. He refers to research on aging and happiness, which was also recently reported in Slate.
Science Blogs reported research on the decline in happiness during the 20th Century. Reading it did not make me happy!
See HappinessHabit.com for more information.
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