#1.36 - The Science of Happiness - GGSC

03/31/20 • 29 min

Happiness-Matters in Midlife - for Professional Women

This week, we dip into how the University of Berkeley's Greater Good Science Centre researches and defines Happiness. We explore how Happiness and the related constructs of Gratitude, Empathy, Mindfulness, Wonder, Optimism, Affection and Self-Compassion fit into the Science of a Meaningful Life.

In a time of social distancing and self-isolation, coach Julia Seal focuses on 3 key happiness areas to help us through this time - as individuals and towards our societies and the greater good: Positive Emotion + Social Connection + Cooperation.

Firstly, we look at the essential role of Positive Emotion in our Happiness - from Joy, Gratitude and Mindfulness to Kindness, Self-Compassion and Tenderness - and how they open us up and change the boundaries of our minds and hearts. Then, we find out how taking advantage of the biochemical benefits of these positive emotions on our body and minds results in us being smarter on tests, more resilient in adversity, seeing "oneness" and even enhances cellular renewal in our bodies every day!

Next, we explore why our social connections, our "social capital" is one of the most important and enduring sources of Happiness, how our "ultrasociality" can even predict our happiness levels.

Dig deeper into Empathy and learn how to cultivate it in times of social distancing and even find out how to enhance the 10-part Empathy Circuit in our brains with Roman Krznaric's 6 Empathy Habits.

Lastly, we discover what "pro-social" behaviours and the science of Cooperation and Reconciliation have to do with our happiness. How we are wired for instinctive Cooperation and how Cooperation has the same effect in on our brain's Reward System as eating chocolate!

Lastly, Julia walks you through a new Coaching Tool - Awesome Awe Writing as a way to enhance your Happiness and expand feelings of Awe and Gratitude during difficult times.

" May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!"

All free Coaching Tools - https://happiness-matters.coach/free/

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Learn more at http://www.happiness-matters.coach or start coaching with us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/HappinessMattersCoach/

Next, we explore why our social connections, our "social capital" is one of the most important and enduring sources of Happiness, how our "ultrasociality" can even predict our happiness levels.

Dig deeper into Empathy and learn how to cultivate it in times of social distancing and even find out how to enhance the 10-part Empathy Circuit in our brains with Roman Krznaric's 6 Empathy Habits.

Lastly, Julia walks you through a new Coaching Tool - Awesome Awe Writing as a way to enhance your Happiness and expand feelings of Awe and Gratitude during difficult times.

" May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!"

All free Coaching Tools - https://happiness-matters.coach/free/

Subscribe to Julia's blog

Learn more at http://www.happiness-matters.coach or start coaching with us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/HappinessMattersCoach/

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#1.35 COVID-19: Keep Calm & Coach Yourself

The world needs people who coach themselves beyond their Fears and towards Kindness and Contribution every day!

Discover how to respond to a crisis, like COVID-19, so you can be of service to your family, friends & collagues as well as a contributor to the greater good.

Why learning self-coaching skills to direct our inner traffic of thoughts; to feel more deeply and into our humanity; and to use our emotions on purpose to fuel the best actions is so vital now... what is the point of learning how to be happy and successful if it's only sustainable in good times?

With Coach Julia Seal, learn step-by-step tools to coach yourself through this time, putting into practice all that we've been learning at Happiness-Matters.

Discover a simple, step-by-step process on what to do if you're spiraling, feeling feeling anxious or out of control - suggestions on practices to establish daily self-coaching habits, while you are self-isolating - ideas on how to deepen your self-coaching in order to use this time as an opportunity for growth and evolution, using the 3-prongs of Neptune's trident and Shiva's trishula to guide you.

And why you might want to limit your exposure to news and social media through this time and what you could be doing instead...

A Wuhan handshake or rather, foot-tap and elbow pump for you - thank-you for showing up for yourselves and the world!

" May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!"

All free Coaching Tools - https://happiness-matters.coach/free/

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#1.37 The Science of Happiness: SPIRE & Wholebeing

This week, we overview the SPIRE Wholebeing model of Happiness, the 4th happiness formula in the Science of Happiness.

Developed by Dr Tal Ben-Shahar, we discover what he means by "the experience of whole person wellbeing - of Wholebeing” and what's included in the 12 principles of SPIRE: Spiritual Wholebeing - Physical Wholebeing - Intellectual Wholebeing - Relationship Wholebeing - Emotional Wholebeing.

Since it's World Health Day today, with a focus on nurses, we consider what's included in the Physical dimension of Wholebeing Happiness and how understanding the science behind these insights we can fulfill our potential, our happiness.

From Tokyo 2021 Olympic athletes, little finger workouts and Roger Bannister's 4-minute mile in 1954, we learn how to exploit what science now knows about the Mind-Body connection and Rene Descartes Dualistic Mindset. Using our Future Vision coaching tool, we learn how to coach ourselves through visualizing how we want to show up at home and at work in this Pandemic world and afterwards.

Then, we take a moment to learn from the enormous achievements in the Space Race and this week's International Day of Human Space Flight in order to enhance our Intellectual Wholebeing. Coaching ourselves in this dimension shows us how Curiosity and Openness help us make the most of what life has to offer.

Again, we follow a step-by-step process to leverage what we know about Curiosity and our Happiness and learn how to use Shoshin, Beginner's Mind to grow our capacity for our sustainable long term success and happiness.

" May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!"

All free Coaching Tools - https://happiness-matters.coach/free/

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Learn more at http://www.happiness-matters.coach or start coaching with us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/HappinessMattersCoach/