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The How Of Happiness Rap
 Need more joy in your life? In an earlier edition of this newsletter, I suggested Sonja Lyubormirsky's book, The How of Happiness, as a wonderful resource on ways to bring more joy into your life.
Well, now you can feel the happiness in this rap song that gives you not only her research on happiness but her 12 strategies for making it happen.
I won't say it's the equivalent of a positive psychology course, but it's sure got the basics. Listen here
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Work And All That Jazz
 We've all had moments (I hope!) when we've blissfully lost ourselves in our work. In his book Flow, psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi talks about how we can reach this creative, playful state. But flow is not just for "me." It's also for "we." And R. Keith Sawyer, a psychology professor and jazz pianist, turns to jazz groups and improv actors for guidance. Their mix of structure and free form is just right, he says, to support creativity in "group flow." Want more blissful collaboration in your workplace? In this essay, Sawyer offers 10 elements that can make it happen. One of them is "the potential for real, meaningful failure" - a reason he says jazz groups rarely get in flow during a mere rehearsal.
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ViaME! with Movies!
 Positive psychologists have identified 24 character strengths and virtues that we all have in some degree and found certain ways we can use them to improve our mood.
The VIA Institute on Character Strengths in Cincinnati has come up with a list of movies that match your character strengths and may boost your happiness. You can determine what your strengths are - and which movies you might want to check out - on the VIA Institute website.
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