Educational Resources of Happiness Studies

The Happiness Perspective: Learning to Reframe Our Physical Trauma into Hope, Happiness and Connection by Farris Fakhoury The Happiness Perspective explores happiness as it relates to adversity. During his physical therapy sessions, Farris Fakhoury, DPT noticed certain characteristics and common threads that his patients exhibited to help them in their recovery. He has wanted to share these lessons, hoping to help others going through life-changing injuries realize that happiness awaits - if they know where to look.

Resolve: A Guide to Post Traumatic Growth This is the feature-length documentary to try and help those suffering with PTSD find their way out. It is powerfully told by 10 survivors of horrific trauma and their families. Together, they list 17 guidelines back to health, happiness and a prosperous life. After escaping PTSD's brutal grip, they offer practical, crucial advice for millions of trauma victims, their families and friends worldwide. Executive Producer: Shane Krider. Produced and Directed by Greg Strom. Edited by Neil Sandilands.

Force Majeure (2014) This film tells the story of a Swedish family on a ski vacation in the Alps. A near-brush with an avalanche leaves them physically unscathed but precipitates a psychological unraveling of the family system. The title is a legal term meaning an extraordinary event or disaster that is beyond anyone’s control. What’s important about the film from a trauma point of view is that trauma is not just about physical harm; it’s also the meaning we make of what happened. It also depicts how traditional masculinity can be impacted by trauma, serving as a segue into the next few films that explore trauma and gender.

Post traumatic growth | surviving a mass shooting | Karessa Royce | TEDxUNLV What if one could actually choose the way they heal from a traumatic incident? Speaker Karessa Royce was injured in the October 1, 2017, Route 91 shooting in Las Vegas. In this talk, Karessa shares her life-changing experience and discusses how Post Traumatic Growth has played a role in her life as well as others’. Karessa is a 23-year-old, college student, who experienced profound trauma in which she now describes as her “life change.” She provides a hopeful message and an inspiring perspective about healing from trauma. On October 1, 2017, the largest mass shooting in modern U.S history took place on the Las Vegas Strip. Karessa was one of the concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival, who was shot and severely injured when someone shot into the crowd from a hotel room window at the Mandalay Bay Resort. Karessa has proven to be resilient, spunky and transparent throughout her recovery by continuing her education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and through her volunteer efforts alongside a variety of organizations aimed at bringing awareness to public safety issues and the support of fellow trauma survivors.

Emotional Alchemy, the Art of Transforming Adversity Into Gold for Your Personal Growth by Sandy Mora

Good Fortune GOOD FORTUNE is the rags-to-riches tale of "conscious capitalism" pioneer John Paul DeJoria, who, born with nothing and at times homeless on the streets of L.A., rose to become an international business mogul, cofounding the iconic brands Paul Mitchell hair prodcuts and Patrón Teuila. A modern-day Robin Hood, JP's motto is "Success unshared is failure." The son of immigrants, JP defies the stereotype of "the 1%" and is the poster boy of the triple bottom line: people, planet, and profit.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) T'his film tells the real-life story of Jean-Dominique Bauby, a successful French fashion magazine editor. At age 43, Bauby suffered a catastrophic stroke, leaving him completely paralyzed — with the exception of his eyes. Much of the film is shot from his perspective, with us hearing his inner-dialogue that no one else can hear. The resulting experience of his multiple health providers and diverse therapies — including him making meaning of his experience through writing — is extraordinary and utterly unique.

PTSD Coach PTSD Coach app was designed for Veterans and military Servicemembers who have, or may have, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This app provides users with education about PTSD, information about professional care, a self-assessment for PTSD, opportunities to find support, and tools that can help users manage the stresses of daily life with PTSD. Tools range from relaxation skills and positive self-talk to anger management and other common self-help strategies. Users can customize tools based on their preferences and can integrate their own contacts, photos, and music. This app can be used by people who are in treatment as well as those who are not.

Writing Club with Ashley Michael

Discussion group - "Social media and the pressure to be happy"

Headspace Guide to Meditation Headspace takes a friendly, animated look at the benefits of meditation while offering techniques and guided meditations to jump-start your practice.

https://www.tenpercent.com Ten Percent Happier offers courses, meditations, and expert coaching in our app to help anyone learn meditation and reduce stress.

The Matrix (1999 movie) This is a story about how a computer hacker can hack more than your IDs and passwords, he can hack the path to spirituality. The movie is l oaded with spiritual connotations and hidden meanings. What if you were unaware that you were dreaming? What if you could not tell the difference between the dream and the real world? The matrix is everywhere you go, but no one can tell you what the matrix actually is. Free your mind from a world of control that is your way inward to meet your true self.

Mindful.org offers the latest information on bringing mindfulness, awareness, and compassion into your life.

Fragrant Heart On this site you'll find a growing collection of free guided audio meditations and visualizations drawing upon traditional and modern meditation techniques. Most of the meditations are recorded as audio files so you can sit back, relax and listen to them right here on the site. There are meditations for beginners and ones for more experienced meditators.

101 Mindfulness Meditation Coloring Book: Adults Coloring Books to Soothe the Soul and Calm the Mind for Relaxing Escape by lauren Kay This coloring book features 101 unique and intricate patterns to help you relax, reduce stress, and enter a meditative state through the calming act of coloring. As you focus your attention on shading and blending colors within the designs, your mind naturally shifts to a peaceful and centered place. Each illustration is specifically created to unlock your creativity and enhance mindfulness.

Are meditation apps effective? New research suggests that meditation apps may have benefits—for those who stick with them.

The Busier You Are, the More You Need Quiet Time Taking time for silence restores the nervous system, helps sustain energy, and conditions our minds to be more adaptive and responsive. For example, silence is associated with the development of new cells in the hippocampus, the key brain region associated with learning and memory. But cultivating silence isn’t just about getting respite from the distractions of office chatter or tweets. Real sustained silence, the kind that facilitates clear and creative thinking, and quiets inner chatter as well as outer.

Seven Years In Tibet Based on the 1952 memoir of Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer, 7 years in Tibet follows Heinrich (Brad Pit) on a journey through Tibet during the time of China takeover. Heinrich escapes a prisoner of war camp in India, going on spend 7 years in Tibet learning the customs and practices of its people. He befriends the young and upcoming Dalai Lama and through their friendship, learns many important life lessons.

Mindfulness Hurts. That’s Why It Works. Facing the painful parts of life head-on is the only way to feel at home with yourself.

Without Emotional Intelligence, Mindfulness Doesn’t Work Research and analysis has revealed a complicated relationship between mindfulness to executive performance–one that highlights the role of emotional intelligence as the mechanism that makes mindfulness work. That’s important for leaders to understand as they seek to develop in their careers, because it reveals other approaches and tools they can use to grow as well.

UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center MARC's mission is to foster mindful awareness across the lifespan through education and research to promote well-being and a more compassionate society.

Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief: Practices to Reclaim Your Body and Your Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn. Jon Kabat-Zinn developed Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) to help medical patients with ongoing chronic pain conditions who were not responding to conventional treatments, including drugs or surgery, to use mindfulness as a formal meditation practice and as a way of being in relationship to experience throughout the day to regulate and attenuate the experience of suffering. Since then, the practices of MBSR have become world-renowned for their effectiveness in helping people learn to live and live well with ongoing health challenges, including chronic pain conditions. Jon guides us through the fundamentals, a series of evidence-based practices that anyone can apply gently and effectively to address even intense forms of pain and suffering, as a complement to whatever medical treatments one might be receiving. Includes audio guidance for all key practices, accessible online and led by the author.

Tara Brach Tara Brach’s teachings blend Western psychology and Eastern spiritual practices, mindful attention to our inner life, and a full, compassionate engagement with our world. This site contains a variety of guided meditations.

DoYogaWithMe Free Guided Meditations, Visualizations and Relaxations

Mindfulness Meditation for Beginners: 50 Meditations to Practice Awareness, Acceptance, and Peace by Dawn Mauricio Mindfulness Meditation for Beginners is a perfect first step to understanding the principles of mindfulness and meditation to build your daily practice from the ground up. From simple breathing techniques to visualization exercises, this comprehensive guide to mindful meditation for beginners delivers everything you need to get started, including a brief introduction to mindfulness, meditation practices that build in skill level, and tips on how to continue with your practice beyond the book.

The Now Effect A leader in mindfulness psychology, Dr. Elisha Goldstein demonstrates how to use the space between stimulus and response to break free from habitual beliefs and thoughts that don’t serve you. Offering practical techniques to make deep, permanent life changes, Dr. Goldstein’s techniques will allow you to connect to the present moment to make deep, permanent life changes and to connect with the good in life and with what really matters. In essence, this book teaches the foundation for how the now—this very moment—can change the rest of your life.

Walk With Me A movie for mindfulness in every day life. A charming and beautiful documentary about the life of mindfulness master Thich Nhat Hanh. The movie is set at Plum Village, the stunning ashram he created in France.

Business panel discussion To niche or not to niche

Diversity and Inclusion in work & life with Elvis Zhu