By Flora Jin, Photo: from article, Greater Good Magazine, October 17, 2023
Have you ever felt motivated to improve your own happiness—but had trouble finding practices for doing so? To help people find what can work for them, we at the Greater Good Science Center created a four-week interactive program on our Greater Good in Action (GGIA) website called the Pathway to Happiness (P2H)—and we invited the Greater Good community to try it out.
Upon enrolling, P2H invites people to fill out a survey, and one of the questions is: “What do you want to work on?” I chose “managing stress,” and the first practice GGIA suggested was “Finding Silver Linings,” which asked me to think of an upsetting situation and then try to find some of its upsides.
I did this practice for 10 minutes a day while brushing my teeth and winding down before bed, and it really helped me fall asleep. The next morning, I woke up feeling better rested. Finding Silver Linings has become a healthy habit in my daily life, as have a few of the other practices that I discovered during my P2H, like “Three Good Things,” which only takes a minute, but makes me feel a lot better.
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