Best of R2R: Three Good Things
Road to Resilience
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How to Use Character Strengths in a New Way
The idea is using our strengths rather than focusing on our weaknesses, which is often our inclination to do as human beings. And there are many research studies that have shown that people who have done this exercise using a new strength every day for one week had greater happiness and decreased levels of depression up to six months later. There are so many ways you can combine the three good things exercise with savoring: reminiscing about past positive experiences or looking at old family photos. We may not know when they're going to happen in future, but we can think really anticipating a possible what-if after this pandemic.
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