On listening to a Jay Shetty podcast recently, he interviewed Yale Professor Laura Santos. She created a psychology class with 1200 people enrolled every semester. It’s called Psychology and The Good Life. It’s gone viral and almost half a million people have taken a version of it online for free.
It’s amazing to see so many people that are interested in creating a better version of themselves. All of us want to be happy, but have been guided to paths that led to false starts. We believe that happiness will be found with the amount of degrees we have, money made, items purchased, or countries travelled to.
Psychological research has shown that happiness is in the daily habits we practice versus the journey. It’s interesting as a psychologist myself, I have found the path toward living a disciplined life which is inclusive of meditation, gratitude, and presence more through my spiritual and yogic training than through the doctorate I attained in psychology. But now the fields are converging are pointing both towards the same thing.
As I look at the past several weeks of who is logging on and reading this blog it’s people from all over the world: UK, USA, France, Mexico, Germany, Jordan, Philippines. And this is in the past weeks.
So many times we want to start a revolution to change the world, but perhaps being part of an ongoing global conversation can be enough. Happiness has the capacity to be contagious. We cannot demand a change from others, but we cans start to alter how we live and interact in the world. If you are intrigued, take a peak into the free Yale class or podcast to dip your feet into living the good life.
To sign up follow this link
or to catch a peak of the interview check out
It Only Takes A Smile 