Smiling in the Rain

Everyday someone around you is having a bad one or an outstanding one. In horse therapy we learn something about ourselves from the horses...and that is to have an attitude of "Smiling in the Rain" or finding happiness in tough times. If your going through a tough time right now here are some things I do to find that happiness over the short term troubles of now...

-Pray or go to a quite place

-Spend some time with a horse

-Talk to somebody

-Give something away...it can be anything to anybody

- Be simplistic

If today is an amazing day for you, then please go find someone and make it the same for them as well :) It WILL go long ways. This is an interesting article I found about money and materials and how they affect happiness...check it out. 

"Psychologists also have found that being highly materialistic affects happiness, with those who are most concerned about money and possessions actually being less happy.

Keeping too close tabs on the economy, such as daily monitoring of economic indicators that have been on a roller-coaster ride since the recession began, also hinders happiness.

“We find that people whose moods are up and down a lot are less happy. People who are less reactive to every event, in general, are happier,” Diener says.

But what about what money can buy? Previous research has found that using money to pay for something novel, social or experiential brings more happiness than buying things.

Some newer studies confirm these results. San Francisco State University researchers presented findings earlier this year to the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, based on what participants said about their purchases.

They said they thought eating out or buying theater tickets was money better spent than on more things, such as a new tech toy or clothing, and the experiential purchase provided greater happiness for themselves and others, regardless of the amount they paid or their income."

Source:http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2011/03/13/staying-happy-in-bad-times/

 

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