Happiness Exercises

Dr. Paul Zak explains the evolution of his free app, SIX, which uses data from smart wearable devices to detect the value of experiences in the brain that contribute to happiness and resilience. Because what gets measured gets acted on, he invites readers to get the app and use the information to enhance well-being.

Anticipatory savoring can be a powerful force that influences our emotional landscapes and contributes to flourishing in life. Integrating some anticipatory savoring into every day can lead us to greater appreciation, positive emotions, closer ties, clear goals, and fulfilling life experiences.

In this updated edition of a valuable book, Ryan Niemiec shows how merging the awareness of character strengths with intentional mindfulness can enhance both practices. Because the book offers both a conceptual framework and activities grounded in scientific research, readers will know what to do but also why it works.

Food and family are often at the heart of our holiday gatherings, traditions, and celebrations. The newest issue of MAPP Magazine explores a theme very relevant to the holidays: Food, Family, and Flourishing.

The message of an Aesop’s fable, “A man is known by the company he keeps,” is often repeated as a cautionary tale. Stay away from the idle and the gluttonous, or you too may rejected by finer folk. But what if we took a Positive Psychology on that fable? What if being known by the …