Happiness, meet science
By Nara Schoenberg
April 12, 2011
Not that we don't believe Glamour magazine and celebrity testimonials. But just to be sure, we asked top researchers which mood-boosting techniques work best.
Carin Rockind had a condo, a boat, a great job in corporate marketing and dozens of friends and business contacts, all based in Cleveland.
So when she decided to switch careers and enroll as a full-time psychology student at the University of Pennsylvania, she was, understandably, a little nervous.
"What am I doing?" she would ask herself as moving day approached "This is crazy. Who will I know? How am I going to eat?"
She had whipped herself up into near-panic when she decided to try one small thing. Every night before she went to bed, she wrote down at least three good things that had happened that day: a touching good-bye, perhaps, or an encouraging comment from her mom or a nice walk with her dog. Within days she was feeling more grateful, appreciative and calm. By the end of the month, she was brimming with excitement about the future.
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"It completely, 100 percent changed my attitude," says Rockind, 36.
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