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Overthinking Happiness…Makes You Less Happy!

Well, we all want to be happy. We’ve done our own research into this concluding that emotional needs are critical to this. But this research has shown what some have long suspected — that the pursuit, or more specifically overthinking of happiness, seems to backfire and reduce happiness. Oh dear!

Zerwas et al. collected data and conducted three separate studies over more than 10 years across a diverse population group of over 1’800 people in the USA.

What they found is that rating happiness as important seem innocuous — but the key is that those who judge, rate, their happiness experience have lower wellbeing. And surprisingly those who judge their happiness more seem to experience more negativity over positive events. It seems that there is simply too much overthinking.

Rather than judge happiness is seems better to simply accept where you’re at — but also to simply accept all emotions. This is what the researchers recommend…