{"id":12484,"date":"2021-01-05T10:58:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T15:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/?p=12484"},"modified":"2021-01-05T10:58:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T15:58:20","slug":"happiness-is-contagious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/blogs\/middays\/2021\/01\/happiness-is-contagious\/","title":{"rendered":"HAPPINESS IS CONTAGIOUS&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"font-size: large\">Experts say the 4 Steps\u00a0<span class=\"gmail_default\">To Up Your\u00a0<\/span>Happiness is\u00a0<span class=\"gmail_default\">&#8230;.<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Step 1: Grow Connections<\/p>\n<p>Forging and strengthening a sense of togetherness is certainly a difficult goal\u00a0in the middle of\u00a0COVID-19. But making a small effort to connect with friends, loved ones and colleagues via Zoom, email or text can be enough to help you\u00a0unleash\u00a0deeper feelings of\u00a0togetherness&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Step 2:\u00a0Become More Purposefully Aware<\/p>\n<p>Basically, try to be more aware of\u00a0your surroundings as well as your thoughts, feelings and bodily sensations.\u00a0Studies do show that people with heightened awareness tend to have better overall well-being.\u00a0Need an example&#8212;\u00a0Close your eyes and focus on the act of taking 10 breaths.<\/p>\n<p>Step 3: Practice Internal Kindness<\/p>\n<p>The researchers define insight as having self-knowledge about how your own emotions, thoughts and beliefs shape who you think you are.\u00a0When a negative thought pops up, replace it with something fun &amp; happy&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Step 4: Own Who You Are!<\/p>\n<p>Experts say, what ever the task, big or small, if you&#8217;re going to do it, try &amp; do it well&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Info from Catherine Pearson&#8211;Huff Post<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Experts say the 4 Steps\u00a0To Up Your\u00a0Happiness is\u00a0&#8230;.","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":12485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middays"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 16:19:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/foxfm.com\/blogs\/middays\/2021\/01\/happiness-is-contagious\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12487,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12484\/revisions\/12487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}