Happier with Hazel - How to be happier, more of the time.

How to be happier, more of the time.

10/21/19 • 18 min

Being happy is good for us and good for society. Happy people generate feelings of acceptance, appreciation, openness, gratitude, and trust and less hostility, defensiveness, resentment and judgement.

We have a set point for happiness, our Happiness Quotient that we return to after good or bad things happen to us. Some have a lower HQ because of genetics or environment. But you can cultivate a higher HQ and that’s what I’m going to talk about for the next two shows because there are so many ways you can learn how to raise your HQ and experience greater happiness, less stress and less anxiety.

Previous Episode

Is striving to be happy what we should be doing or is it making us more unhappy?

If I asked you if you’re happy, what would you say? Yes, no, sometimes, never, always?
When people are asked what they want for their children, their family, their friends it’s usually ‘I just want them to be happy’.
But what is happiness and should we be spending so much money, time and energy in order to pursue it? Why are some people happier than others, no matter what life throws at them? In this episode I'll talk about why we’re all under so much pressure to be happy, that we shouldn’t even be happy all the time and how struggling to reach happiness is doing the opposite - and making us all anxious, stressed and unhappy. But it’s not all gloom and doom – listen in to learn how you can be happier.

Next Episode

Even more Happy!

Last week I gave you suggestions for changes you can make to raise your set point for happiness, your Happiness Quotient. This week I continue on this theme with yet more suggestions so that you can pick the right one for you. Or maybe you want to try more than one. It’s up to you – but listen in for great tips to make stunning changes to your life and your happiness, and how this can help you to be less anxious and stressed.