How to Bring Happiness to Oneself

(a repost from facebook)

The "play therapist" wants to share something with you.

HOW TO BRING HAPPINESS TO ONESELF (in not particular order)

1. Select uplifting music

2. Dance with abandon

3. Get into nature

4. Go to an art gallery/museum

5. Watch a hilarious movie

6. Talk with a trusted friend....ask them to only listen and love

7. Sit & breathe deeply and consciously, only thinking about the path of the breath

8. Read uplifting stories or passages

9. Go to the park and play on the monkey bars, jungle gym or gymnastic bars

10. Play music, even if badly, sing even if badly, create art/draw/paint/glue things even if badly I do not really mean that anything is actually "bad", it is our our nature to put our abilities down at times; everyone starts somewhere)

11. Try something you've never tried before, and have wanted to