{"id":7427,"date":"2016-09-19T06:30:22","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T10:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/?p=7427"},"modified":"2018-12-29T09:47:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T13:47:35","slug":"notice-what-makes-you-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/7427\/notice-what-makes-you-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"Notice What Makes You Happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>This article is in our series about\u00a0<strong>increasing happiness<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<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>Based on your own life,\u00a0what you think the things are that go into a happy life. \u00a0Initially you might have said travel around the world and lots of chocolate. \u00a0Or winning the lottery and marrying a gorgeous partner. \u00a0Or perhaps you might think you have to avoid everything that&#8217;s negative &#8211; have no pain or stress.\u00a0 Nope.<\/p>\n<p>For a week,\u00a0pay attention each day to what makes you happiest.\u00a0 You can also take this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu\/questionnaires\/fordyce-emotions-questionnaire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Emotions Questionnaire<\/a> to score your happiness (you will have to register at the site).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is in our series about\u00a0increasing happiness\u00a0and\u00a0life 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. Based on your own life,\u00a0what you think the things are that [&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-7427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7427","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=7427"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7991,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7427\/revisions\/7991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}