Happiness Archive

Mudita Guided Meditation for Happiness

Use this guided meditation script for happiness to connect to an embodied sense of joy. With mindfulness, we can learn to be present for joy in all its forms.

Open to Gratitude With This Joy Meditation

Bring mindfulness and gratitude to the body to cultivate awe and wonder with this guided meditation for joy. Use it to share genuine happiness with others.

Recognizing What You Need

Recognizing What You Need. Part of mindfulness is recognizing what you need. See if you can respond in a way that promotes your well-being and freedom

Cultivating Joyful Effort

Cultivating Joyful Effort. Invite joy into your practice. Silently contemplate your why. Joyful effort arises when we understand our purpose.

Noticing What Brings You Joy

Noticing What Brings You Joy: One of the most pleasant ways to cultivate mindfulness is to notice the things that bring you joy.

Releasing Grief And Bringing In The Positive

Releasing Grief & Bringing in the Positive. For times of grief, it can be helpful to allow what’s there to be & to open into a space of wonder & gratitude.

Mindful Of Your Food And Eating

Mindful of Your Food And Eating. This script encourages heightened awareness of one’s experience during a simple bite. It also sparks healthy conversations.

Affirmations for Happiness & Living In The Moment

Spoken affirmations on gratitude and happiness, presented as law of attraction practice by the video’s creator. You might put your intention behind each statement as you listen.

Positive Mind in 5 Minutes Meditation

A 5-minute guided meditation by Jason Stephenson that invites a relaxed, positive state of mind and returns attention to the breath.

Adyashanti: The Way of Liberation

A free ebook by Adyashanti, The Way of Liberation: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, offering practical guidelines for what he calls awakening or liberation.

• Sharon Salzberg

Real Happiness at Work, Sharon Salzberg

Sharon Salzberg discusses her book Real Happiness at Work in a Talks at Google session on mindfulness, compassion, and resilience in working life.

Basic Goodness and Harmony (Chogyam Trungpa)

And we begin to feel that way ourselves, that basic goodness exists in ourselves. For the very reason that you are not struggling, just purely creating harmony alone, but you are also creating enlightened society.

Ecstasy of Curiosity

Jason Silva's Shots of Awe video on the ecstasy of curiosity, with a quote from Tim Doody and a short reading list.

• Rick Hanson

Taking in the Good

Taking in the Good is a practice created by psychologist Rick Hanson. This worksheet guides you to notice a good moment, stay with it for several seconds and let it register.

How To Let Go

Are you holding on to something that you didn’t want which gives you stress? Listen to Pascal Auclair as he talks about how letting go happens.

Cultivating an Inner Smile

Having an inner smile means we’re greeting our experience with more kindness and openness. Here are ways to maintain an inner smile in everyday life.

Three Good Things Exercise

Three Good Things exercise helps you get acquainted with the way your mind works and learn to start tweaking its patterns.

Taking in the World While Walking

A walking meditation with open awareness: noticing your movement, your breath, and the world around you, then resting your attention on something pleasing. Free printable worksheet.

Scheduling Something Pleasant

A worksheet on scheduling small pleasant activities into your day, drawn from behavioral activation. It may help with energy and mood alongside professional care.

Retelling an Uplifting Story

This mindfulness worksheet invites you to retell a hard chapter of your life that ended in a gift, insight, or skill, and to notice the hope in it.

Favorite Things

A mindfulness worksheet for listing the people, places, and activities that bring you comfort, so you can turn to them on harder days.

Activating the Parasympathetic Wing of Your Nervous System

By activating the parasympathetic wing of your nervous system (or PNS), you may draw on its natural cool-down response & help ease chronic stress.

Guided Mindfulness Meditation on Joy [Video]

Guided Mindfulness Meditation on Joy. Feel the joy within you & the space you’re in and the ones you love. Feel the joy in all things. Let yourself be here.

• Rick Hanson

Rick Hanson: Taking in the Good

Rick Hanson explains how to boost positive emotions and experiences by looking for positive facts and letting them become positive experiences. Video from the Greater Good Science Center.

Altruistic Joy [Audio]

A talk by Howard Cohn on altruistic joy, the capacity to take part in the happiness of others, with the full transcript.

Barbara Fredrickson: Positive Emotions Open Our Mind

In this video, psychology professor Barbara Fredrickson discusses what positive emotions are and how positivity can broaden our awareness and open our minds.

Fueling Your Happiness

One key thing to remember when fueling your happiness is that it is good to fuel the happiness of others as well. Helping them with their happiness, when done freely, can ignite your own happiness too.

Awakening Your Joy

Awakening joy is a skill. Even though we all undoubtedly want to be happy, it is not always easy to feel truly aware of and awake to the experience of joy.

Merit: The Buddha’s Strategies for Happiness

A free study guide prepared by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. It presents the pursuit of merit (giving, virtue and meditation) as the way to develop a wise sense of self.