how to increase positive emotions — short videos explaining proven exercises

The Gratitude Visit™ exercise is a powerful tool for increasing life satisfaction because it amplifies good memories about the past, and it forges a very strong bond with an important person from your past. The goal of this exercise is for you to experience the power of expressing your gratitude to someone who has touched your life.

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Martin “Marty” Seligman, father of positive psychology, discusses his happiness intervention (exercise) “three good things” (also known as “three blessings”). The scientifically-tested happiness tool was made into an iphone application by happier.com. The happiness iphone application is called “good things” and is available on the apple itunes app store and through happier.com

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 Three Blessings™ is designed to increase your life satisfaction and to sweeten your memories about the past. It has been determined in well designed research studies that becoming much more conscious of good events reliably increases happiness and decreases depression.

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Keeping a gratitude journal: 

Demonstration vide of the $0.99 iPhone/iPod Touch application from happier.com: gratitude journal.

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Active & Constructive Responding is an example of a Happiness Exercise by Dr. Martin Seligman from the Reflective Happiness Web site. This exercise is intended to help you respond actively and constructively to positive events reported to you by others.

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