🎈 Does Thinking Make You Happier? Yes & No
Nothing is good or bad. Thinking makes it so.
Pleasure or pain, the mind categorizes it so.
Is thinking just flat out bad for your happiness?
In the famous paper, “A Wandering Mind is an Unhappy One”, researchers discovered that when the minds of participants were idling, they were unhappy.
But is this always the case? No!
Recently I visited one of my most conscious friends. We sat down for an hour long podcast. The topic was how to steadily increase your happiness — the topic of my next article.
I emphasized a key insight about happiness.
Happiness is an experience in the moment, it isn’t a belief about your life.