5 Happiness Hacks That Take 5 Minutes Or Less

Our Better Health

Feeling stressed or down? These science-backed tips will boost your mood quickly.

So often, the habits that experts recommend to increase happiness arenโ€™t compatible with actual daily life. Who has time to sit down for an extended meditation session when youโ€™re juggling 1,000 different things?

Fortunately, there is plenty you can do to boost your well-being throughout the day in just a few minutes. Here are five research-backed happiness โ€œhacksโ€ that take five minutes or less, but pay dividends all day long.

1. Tackle your hardest task.

Loretta Graziano Breuning, founder of Inner Mammal Institute and author of โ€œHabits of a Happy Brain,โ€ believes that humans can essentially rewire their brains. How so? By understanding that we have certain โ€œhappy chemicalsโ€ that were inherited from earlier mammals โ€” and using that knowledge to develop habits that turn those chemicals on.

One of those chemicals is dopamine, which Breuning describes asโ€ฆ

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