Dr Justin Coulson's Happy Families

#10: Pathways to Happiness

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Is there a way to be happy that feels best for you? Do you seek happiness in the same predictable patterns?

Over recent decades, researchers have considered the different ways we might be oriented to happiness. They’ve developed a model of 3 orientations – or pathways – to happiness and we’ll explore them briefly in today’s podcast.

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I think it’s fair to say that we all want to be happy… and perhaps even “happy – er”.

But how do we get there? What can we do to make ourselves lastingly happier? Is it even possible.

Today, we explore 3 orientations to happiness – or perhaps we might call them pathways.

These pathways are:

* Hedonic Happiness

* Engagement/Flow

* Eudaimonic Happiness

Throughout this podcast we’ll take a close look at each of these ways of being happy, and explore some simple things you can do to implement them more into your daily life.