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The Happiness Workshop: week one

by Susan Quilliam
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Your personal space
An unsupportive environment doesn't just make you feel uncomfortable short term - it can also leave you feeling depressed in the long term. If you want to be happy:

Take sanity time. Everyone needs regular opportunities to mentally process what's happening and stay sane. Each day, take some time out, without input from other people or even the television or radio. Sit quietly, lie back, take a walk and spend a few minutes allowing your mind to settle so you can start to make sense of the day's events.

  • Create your own space. It's good to have somewhere that is yours and under your control. Whether that's in your office, your bedroom, your car or at the bottom of your garden, your space needs to be yours alone. Don't share it or its organisation and decor with anyone else. Make it your own.

  • Surround yourself with nice things. Designer William Morris said, 'Have nothing in your home that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.' Don't clutter your life up with stuff that you neither need nor enjoy. Choose things that are good to look at, listen to or touch. And indulge yourself with a few things that make your heart sing - whether you feel you can afford them or not.

    More resources:
  • Practical Feng Shui by Simon Brown (Cassell)
  • Comfort for Depression by Janet Horwood (Sheldon Press)



    Introducing The Happiness Workshop:
  • Quiz: The Happiness Test
  • Week one: Happy body
  • Week two: Happy mind
  • Week three: Happy interactions
  • Week four: Happy life
  • Message board: Get happy


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