EP52: Sonja Lyubomirsky on Gratitude

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Health & Fitness:mental Health

4.7 • 522 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2016

⏱️ 21 minutes

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In this episode Live Happy Co-Founder and Editorial Director Deborah Heisz talks with Sonja Lyubomirsky about gratitude. Sonja is author of The How of Happiness, the first book by a highly-credentialed positive psychologist to present the latest research in a “how-to” format. Sonja’s work has been awarded a Templeton Psychology Prize, a Science of Generosity grant, a John Templeton Foundation grant, and a million-dollar grant (with Ken Sheldon) from the National Institute of Mental Health to conduct research on the possibility of permanently increasing happiness.

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0:00.0	Hello and greetings once again. This is the Live Happy Now podcast. I'm your host, J.R. Houston. So happy that you're making us a part of your date, wherever you are in the world. And however you may have found us, we're just glad you're here, to be honest with you. We're also glad for our partner, LifeReimagined. Their website, of course, is LifeReimagined.org slash happy, and it is chock full of things for you to try. Resources for you to check out as you make that journey toward your peak happiness level. As you awaken to the power of happiness, so do your dreams.
0:38.0	So what's next?
0:38.9	Find out at life reimagined.org slash happy.
0:42.7	Well, we've been talking about here lately if the possibility exists that the secret to
0:48.4	lasting happiness could be simple.
0:50.9	Well, in Live Happy's upcoming book, Live Happy, 10 practices for choosing joy, you can see
0:55.2	how surprisingly easy everyday acts can lead to lifelong joy, happiness, fulfillment, all those
1:00.4	things, and it's all proven by the latest research in positive psychology. Now, each chapter
1:05.5	is organized around sort of a key idea or an element that can contribute to lifelong happiness. And there are also
1:12.6	40 real-life inspirational stories in the book from regular folks like you and I, celebrities
1:18.0	that are out there. And they'll all relate back to those core ideas. So you get the science
1:22.6	and the practical application of said science. Now, if this is something you're interested in,
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1:58.1	In this episode of Live Happy Now, Deborah and I, book with Sonia Lumierski, one of 10
2:03.8	practices for choosing joy that she likes to talk about is gratitude.
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