How to Be Happy: 10 Keys to Happier Living: Book Beginnings on Fridays, First Line Friday, The Friday 56, and Book Blogger Hop

  

Today's Featured Book: 

How to Be Happy: 10 Keys to Happier Living

by Vanessa King

Genre: Positive Psychology

Published: March 10, 2016

Page Count: 518 pages

Summary: 

We all want to be happy but what does that actually mean and what can we do in our everyday lives to be happier? Fortunately, psychologists, neuroscientists and other experts now have evidence of what really makes a difference and helps us to be happier and more resilient to life's ups and downs.

In this book, Vanessa King of Action for Happiness has drawn on the latest scientific studies to create a set of evidence-based practical actions. They will help you connect with people, nurture your relationships and find purpose. You'll get ideas for taking care of your body, making the most of what's good and finding new ways to stimulate your mind.

 

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAY is hosted by Rose City Reader. What book are you happy about reading this week? Please share the opening sentence (or so) on BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAY! Add the link to your blog or social media post and visit other blogs to see what others are reading.

Happy Friday and welcome to the FIRST LINE FRIDAY, hosted by Reading is My Superpower! It’s time to grab the book nearest to you and leave a comment with the first line.

Your happiness matters. People who are happy not only enjoy life more and are more resilient, they also tend to have more and better relationships, be physically healthier, and be more engaged and do better at work. These are just a few of the benefits recent research has revealed.

King, Vanessa. How to Be Happy: 10 Keys to Happier Living.

THE FRIDAY 56 is hosted by Anne of Head Full of Books. To play, open a book and turn to page 56 (or 56% on your e-reader). Find a sentence or two and post them, along with the book title and author. Then link up on Head Full of Books and visit others in the linky. 

A national survey in the US asked over 28,000 people how much stress they had experienced in the past year: a lot, a moderate amount or relatively little; and also how much they perceived that stress had an effect on their health: a lot, some, hardly any, or none. The results showed that either experiencing a lot of stress or believing it harmful had a negative relationship to health outcomes. But a combination of both was worse. Those who scored highly for having a lot of stress and believing that it was very harmful had a much greater risk of dying prematurely eight years later. In another study, psychologist Alia Crum and colleagues found that people who saw stress as being enhancing showed fewer negative health outcomes than those who saw it as being debilitating. Both Crum and Kelly McGonigal, a health psychologist, argue that instead of always trying to eliminate stress, we need to view it differently.

King, Vanessa. How to Be Happy: 10 Keys to Happier Living.

Action for Happiness is an action-based nonprofit movement, based on science, that aims to make the world a happier place. 

Action for Happiness focuses on 10 Keys to Happier Living that together form the acronym GREAT DREAM: Giving, Relating, Exercising, Awareness, Trying Out, Direction, Resilience, Emotions, Acceptance, Meaning.

Action for Happiness has archived many wonderful videos about these keys to happiness and other topics as well as monthly happiness calendars and other resources here to help us all take action to become happier.

The purpose of THE BOOK BLOGGER HOP is to give bloggers a chance to follow other blogs, learn about new books, and befriend other bloggers. THE BOOK BLOGGER HOP is hosted by Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer.    

September 19th - 25th - Do you know more than one language? If so, do you read books published in other countries? (submitted by Billy @ Coffee Addicted Writer)

I am a native English speaker. I have been learning Spanish for the last forty years. I've studied French and Italian off and on over the years. 

I can read children's books in Spanish, French, and Italian, but grownup books in those languages are a little beyond me.