Harvard Study on Secret of Happiness - Paying Attention

This just in from Ann Gokieli from the Huffington Post.

Harvard researchers, in a study of over 2,200 people, asked them how they were doing at various random times. The researchers found, as reported in The New York Times, that what mattered more was not what people were doing but rather the degree of attention that they were bringing to what they were doing. According to the article, "Whatever people were doing, whether it was having sex or reading or shopping, they tended to be happier if they focused on the activity instead of thinking about something else. In fact, whether and where their minds wandered was a better predictor of happiness than what they were doing."

Much advice in the piece on just paying attention to the body to bring one's focus away from the "mind" wandering off into thought.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/soren-gordhamer/want-to-be-happy-pay-atte_b_784808.html.

Tks Ann.