7 Days to Happiness - Stress Management Tips - Pure Genius!

Stress can come in all shapes and sizes - what can we do to manage our stress and increase our happiness? This exercise offers a simple way to reset the nervous system and restore calm and well-being regardless of what is going on with your thoughts and emotions - powerful and backed by science

Here we offer some final happiness tips to get the most out of this experiment and manage stress fast!

A great tool to soften our stress and generate a relaxation response in our physiology.

Here we offer some final happiness tips to get the most out of this experiment and manage soften and soothe stress fast!

Here we offer some final happiness tips to get the most out of this experiment and reduce cortisol by 25% in just two minutes. BONUS - your confidence will also soar. Such a powerful exercise!

Learn the powerful science behind gratitude and why it has such a significant affect on your happiness.

Learn how to do a simple daily gratitude practice (plus a bonus option) that research shows has a powerful impact on your happiness, well-being and connection to others.

Here we offer some final happiness tips to get the most out of this experiment and boost your mood, happiness and well-being all in one.

It might seem strange to you that I have waited until the end of our week of experiments to raise this question - but I have done that for a reason. I wanted you to have your own lived experiential feel of happiness before I offered you a few research based answers to this question.

No discussion of happiness, however brief would be complete without reference to what we commonly refer to as its opposite: sadness, grief, anger, anxiety, jealousy, envy, greed, fear, etc

Congratulations to you - you did it, you kept your curiosity alive, experimenting with each of the exercises and hopefully had a lot of fun along the way. My hope for you is that have a few more happiness resources in your tool kit - that you know how to respond to stress so that it doesn't overtake you or undermine your well-being and that you can understand all that can be gained by deliberately choosing to boost your happiness on a daily basis and rewire your brain for greater success, health, happiness and connection to yourself and others.

So where to from here?

I encourage you to take hold of the exercises that have caught your fancy and make them part of your life - and come back to those you were unsure of and give them a go every now and again. Remember, I have cherry picked experiments that are backed by lots of research that demonstrates that they really work - so you can make them happiness habits with confidence that you are rewiring your brain for greater levels of happiness and well being for the rest of your lives.

Three quick tips on making them a habit that sticks so they are not a fad that is forgotten tomorrow - because your increased happiness is worth it.