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Dr. Jill here. I have often been asked that very question.Positive psychology says that the happiest people are those that spend time with family and friends, care little about keeping up with others, and are grateful and forgive easily. Forgiveness is the trait most strongly linked to happiness, says Univ of Michigan psychologist Christopher Peterson. But here’s something that needs to be added to this. There’s VERY STRONG research evidence that just ACTING happy turns on the very same portion of your brain that’s naturally activated for happy people. So just ACT happy, and you’re more than half way there....

Modern neuroscience is showing exactly how our thoughts shape our reality. When you welcome new thoughts and experiences, your neurons (brain cells) respond by creating durable neural pathways to store them.Our thoughts really DO affect other living things! A few years ago biologist Clove Backster monitored plants by measuring their stress levels. He discovered that plants DO have increased stress levels during times of danger. If an experimenter threatened to burn a plant with a match, for example, the plant registered a spike on the stress machine. But what intrigued Backster the most was that plants registered a stress spike even...