Jan. 29th--Sustainable happiness

Sustainable happiness

I list all the important points of this lecture.  

Happiness research overlooks interdependent and interconnected nature of humans

      People, other species, nature

  Catherine O’Brien, Cape Breton University

      Connection to sustainability

      Activities that are better for the earth can make us happier

      Deep and lasting happiness

Sustainable happiness concepts

   Truth

   Gratitude

   Genuine Wealth

      Relationships

      Community

      Nature

“Happiness that contributes to individual, community, and/or global well-being and does not exploit other people, the environment, or future generations.” (O’Brien, 2008)

Sustainable happiness links happiness and sustainability together, it reinforces the fact that we are interdependent with one another and the natural environment – that our mutual well-being is intercoplation.

Happiness exercises

  sustainable happiness course

  natural highs

     rain on a tin roof

     watching a child sleep

     smell of forest

     hearing a loon on the lake

     sun on your face

     experiencing the northern lights

     happening across wildlife

The sustainable happiness chart.

I use this chart for two days, and try to record all the happy things of my life. I feel I can be happier when I use this chart. 

http://sustainablehappiness.ca/ This video is the sustainable happiness of Catherine O'brien. 

After I watched it I found out the emotion of happy is also an useful resource. It also need to be maintained and protect by us. It is not like food, oil, water or wood. It is an emotion which everybody needed.