Practical Tools for a Happier Life: Flow States, Gratitude, and More

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Juna Gjata

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Health

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we continue our conversation with Dr. Liana Lianov about how to apply positive psychology in real life. We explore why feeling stressed—even when life is objectively good—is so common, and how practices like kindness, gratitude (but not too much!), and flow states can help shift our mindset. Dr. Lianov shares science-backed strategies for boosting well-being, why doing good for others can actually make you feel better, and the surprising connection between stress and fulfillment. Plus, we each reflect on one kind act we've done recently—because even small moments of generosity can make a big impact.

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of the talk. Today we are continuing our conversation with Dr.
0:06.1	Lianna Leonov about positive psychology and what it is and how to use it in your life.
0:12.3	So I'm really glad we're having this conversation because as I said in our last episode,
0:16.5	this is very applicable to my life at the moment because I feel like objectively a lot of good things
0:22.4	have been happening in my life over the past year but subjectively I feel very like stretched
0:28.5	thin very stressed I'm getting a lot of injuries I'm always getting sick I just feel very like
0:34.0	not happy and complaining a lot but then I feel bad about complaining about it
0:38.7	because I feel like a lot of good things have happened. So I want you to tell me all the practices
0:43.3	you think that I can use in my life, and I'm sure the people can use in their lives as well who are
0:47.6	listening, to actually change the way that we feel about our lives.
0:55.2	That's easy.
0:55.7	Yeah.
0:57.7	She's like, okay, great.
0:58.3	Got it. I'm a doctor.
0:59.1	I can do that.
0:59.7	Yeah.
1:01.2	We talked a little bit about gratitude journaling, but I liked what you said that you don't,
1:04.5	you shouldn't do it every day because I think that's what I was doing.
1:07.0	Not this year.
1:07.5	This was years ago, but I think I did it for like, you know, I don't know, I got to maybe day 18. I was like, I literally can't think of any more things. Like I've,
1:13.6	I've said everything like five times. Like I was like, should I be more specific? Should I be like
1:17.6	my desk, my lamp instead of just like my apartment? You know what I mean? I was like I was Yes. Yeah, so gratitude and three good things is good, but, you know, in moderation, as we were talking about.
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