ABSTRACT
This chapter offers some summating stories about the processes for experiencing greater happiness and well-being. Society, culture, and commerce have created, and maintains, many myths and misconceptions about what facilitates happiness and what does not. Happiness is a process, a state of mind and being, in which the content may vary for each individual. It may be experienced in gardening, playing bridge, engaging in rewarding work, showing compassion to others, being in a positive relationship, or collecting butterflies. Helping others to be happy helps oneself be happy. Exercise not only reduces depression but also directly enhances health and well-being. Julie-Anne has researched and written a doctoral thesis about the thought processes involved in happiness and psychological well-being, and applies them in her own life. She maintains that just as certain ways of thinking can create and keep people stuck in a state of depression, so there are special ways of thinking that can increase the feelings of happiness.
