{"id":7421,"date":"2016-09-12T06:21:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T10:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/?p=7421"},"modified":"2018-12-29T09:48:37","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T13:48:37","slug":"what-makes-up-a-happy-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/7421\/what-makes-up-a-happy-life\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes You Happy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>This article is in our series about <strong>increasing happiness<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>life satisfaction<\/strong>. \u00a0Many people with chronic pain can&#8217;t\u00a0decrease their pain. \u00a0So another way to live a more enjoyable and fulfilling life &#8211;\u00a0perhaps even more\u00a0important &#8211;\u00a0is to\u00a0increase the positive. \u00a0That&#8217;s what we&#8217;ll be looking at in this series.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"irc_t\" data-noload=\"\">\n<div class=\"irc_mic r-i_Y1RwwLcaUE\">\n<div class=\"irc_mutc i_Y1RwwLcaUE-s4mcypHTTek\"><a class=\"irc_mutl i3597 i_Y1RwwLcaUE-dTEICwVRfZc\" tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/a2ua.com\/happiness\/page\/1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-noload=\"\" data-ved=\"0ahUKEwiP5rKsmvjOAhVMSCYKHddWBJ4QjRwIBw\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mut i_Y1RwwLcaUE-HwpH6ZlgJaI aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ_RLye0586JAVU4Edm4soYgZ-TysiYUG16nN976eQyoXxV6D3u\" alt=\"Image result for happiness\" width=\"353\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>You can take\u00a0a very short\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu\/questionnaires\/general-happiness-scale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">happiness quiz<\/a>\u00a0(you will have to register at the site) to see where you are currently. \u00a0Before\u00a0beginning a series of exercises to see what helps you most to increase your happiness, what do <em>you\u00a0<\/em>believe makes up a happy life? \u00a0Both research and different cultures say that a collection of things helps people be happy. \u00a0From your own life, what do you think they are?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is in our series about increasing happiness\u00a0and life satisfaction. \u00a0Many people with chronic pain can&#8217;t\u00a0decrease their pain. \u00a0So another way to live a more enjoyable and fulfilling life &#8211;\u00a0perhaps even more\u00a0important &#8211;\u00a0is to\u00a0increase the positive. \u00a0That&#8217;s what we&#8217;ll be looking at in this series. You can take\u00a0a very short\u00a0happiness quiz\u00a0(you will have to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7421"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7992,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7421\/revisions\/7992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}