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My Practical (and Gratifying) Experience with Happiness

By John McManamy, Health Guide Sunday, August 01, 2010
Over the past several weeks, we have been investigating the topic of happiness. Previous pieces have reported on the Dalai Lama's "The Art of Happiness," Gretchen Rubin's "The Happiness Project," and a milestone study tracking a cohort of Harvard men over six decades. Also, I am reading Martin Se...
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8/ 1/10 12:58pm

ah....bliss - grandbabies - hugs - family...you have been Blessed

Happy for you. Your post makes me smile and brings back my own happy memories of grandchildren and hugs and kisses and all that good stuff.

8/ 2/10 9:01pm

big smiles and happy tears as I read this...bliss is right!

8/ 3/10 7:26pm

Keep a hold of those memories, put them in a brain pocket (my term) so that you can take them out when things don't feel so good. I look at my sleeping 12 year old every morning before I wake her and her mouth curls just like it did when she was a baby - I don't actually want to wake her for school, I want to stay in that moment forever and see that little baby in her face. But then she's up and about and busy and beautiful in a 12 year old way. But it is something I try and reflect on during the day (when it's possible to reflect, and I have to face it, sometimes I just can't, particularly when manic), because it shows me how there is happiness in my life in little moments that need to be savoured and held on to.

PS ordered a copy of The Happines Project -  sounded too good to miss.

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By John McManamy, Health Guide— Last Modified: 12/20/10, First Published: 08/01/10