Feeling stressed or down? These science-backed tips will boost your mood quickly.
So often, the habits that experts recommend to increase happiness arenโt compatible with actual daily life. Who has time to sit down for an extended meditation session when youโre 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 โhacksโ 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 โHabits of a Happy Brain,โ believes that humans can essentially rewire their brains. How so? By understanding that we have certain โhappy 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 asโฆ
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