Happystep c’est une application Iphone qui géolocalise le bonheur.
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Tu peux également utiliser Happystep pour rencontrer du monde en allant sur la fiche personnelle d’un happysteper. Si tu es célibataire et que tu souhaites rencontrer quelqu’un près de chez toi, il te suffit de compléter ta fiche.
Happystep a été conçu pour faire des statistiques mondiales sur le bonheur: quel jour de l’année est-on le plus heureux? Quelle profession procure le plus de bonheur? Dans quel pays fait-il bon vivre?
Avec la page stats, tu peux comparer ton taux de bonheur à celui de ton pays et du monde.
Partage tes émotions avec la terre entière (enfin presque) en publiant ton humeur sur Facebook ou Twitter
Et tout ça est disponible dès aujourd’hui sur l’Appstore et uniquement sur Iphone et Ipod touch
J’espère que cette nouvelle version améliorée vous plaira. La prochaine version sera en français puisque nous sommes pour l’instant majoritairement en France.
Astounding. I have a blog about happiness trying to conceptualise it and now I say there is no recipe.
It’s true. For me. Everything I write on this blog is my path on happiness. Those are the steps I made to understand my truth. I guess there are as many ways to reach happiness as there are individuals.
So yes you can try to squeeze happiness in a book or an application but true happiness is boundless and there could be as many books as people. My happiness is what you may sense in this blog through words. But It’s a every moment appreciation.
Happiness is a cursor. Happiness leads you to your true self.
True self could sound mystic but let’s take out the glitter. True self is for me when my thoughts, my emotions, my acts, my heart are in sync.
Happiness opens the doors of compassion, love, excitement, peace.
It’s the flow of coincidences, the smile, the quick steps on the pavements. Happiness is confidence, the eye quick to catch. Happiness floats around you, generous.
Sure now I can look back and see the books, the people, the events that touched me but take those same books, people, events and throw them at me in a different timing and I would have heard nothing.
There is no recipe to happiness. There is a questioning and a listening to the answer that can come in any shape like a dialogue with yourself.
Dr Vaillant used a longitudinal method of research to conduct a great study. He followed 268 students from Harvard to understand how to live well.
I am so grateful for all the people who worked on that study for more than 60 years because it is as good as a good soap opera, only it’s not fantasy and you get to really learn from it.
The analysis is punctuated by a few biographies that make it very lively.
After reading the article I have this feeling of walking on a thread. Before, it was misty and I couldn’t see it. Now that I am experiencing a happy flow, I can feel the power it gives me but also its fragility. Visualizing all those life was like looking at boat captains. Enigmatic, grandiose, free to wreck it boat captains.
o A little anecdote that really made me laugh and says much about happiness:
“Yet, even as he takes pleasure in poking holes in an innocent idealism, Vaillant says his hopeful temperament is best summed up by the story of a father who on Christmas Eve puts into one son’s stocking a fine gold watch, and into another son’s, a pile of horse manure. The next morning, the first boy comes to his father and says glumly, “Dad, I just don’t know what I’ll do with this watch. It’s so fragile. It could break.” The other boy runs to him and says, “Daddy! Daddy! Santa left me a pony, if only I can just find it!”
o And that’s what they have identified as being healthy characteristics:
“The healthiest, or “mature,” adaptations include altruism, humor, anticipation (looking ahead and planning for future discomfort), suppression (a conscious decision to postpone attention to an impulse or conflict, to be addressed in good time), and sublimation (finding outlets for feelings, like putting aggression into sport, or lust into courtship).”
“Employing mature adaptations was one. The others were education, stable marriage, not smoking, not abusing alcohol, some exercise, and healthy weight.”
o About positive and negative emotions:
“In fact, Vaillant went on, positive emotions make us more vulnerable than negative ones. One reason is that they’re future-oriented. Fear and sadness have immediate payoffs—protecting us from attack or attracting resources at times of distress. Gratitude and joy, over time, will yield better health and deeper connections—but in the short term actually put us at risk. That’s because, while negative emotions tend to be insulating, positive emotions expose us to the common elements of rejection and heartbreak.”
But the beauty of it is that it is based on empirical research.
It spoke to my left brain giving it loads of experiments and numbers to crunch. And it talked to my right brain because it’s all that has been great with my life lately and it was written black on white. I loved that book.
I immediately did a search on the net and I am now following Sonja’s blog and have enjoyed her work overview video at google. And if you have less than 5 minutes here is a casual TV interview:
Sonja is also the cocreator of an Iphone application to be released by signal patterns: Live Happy
I highly recommend this book to those of you who want an entrance door to positive psychology.
A lot of my friends went to the countryside, the mountain. Paris seems very calm. The sliding doors of my studio are wide open on the garden. Birds are singing frenetically. There is that gentle feeling of summer easiness in the air.
I start the day with a bit of blog reading. No pressure ☺
I read a blog post, or more precisely, I listen to a radio extract of a man screaming his despair to the world. The crisis is pushing people to the edge where things need to be addressed.
It started a debate about the crisis, banks, the government, the French position in the world… One says that the other one is an idiot to think like he does. The debate is heating up. What are the solutions to the crisis? Is there an other system possible?
It’s very difficult to have a voice in this world.
My voice for example is sometimes rising and I feel my blood going up to my head. « Don’t you understand? » « Why is he so stubborn? » Afterwards I always feel a bit ashamed. Why did I need to convince that person? What was I aiming for? How did it contribute to a better world?
I have traveled this world and met a lot of people from different backgrounds, religion, ethnics, age, fortune… I came to the conclusion that however objective I can try to be, I will always be influenced by TV, my entourage, my experiences… My opinion has a shape now and here, will have a different one tomorrow and there, and had an other one yesterday.
How can one look at the history of the world, at the diversity of people and beliefs and think he has the truth of a changing world? So yes, I feel tense after a heated conversation because I know that I was feeding a part of myself that wants to be heard, which is seeking recognition or power.
It can seem simplistic but hear me out (ah trying to convince again ☺)
Sometimes people seems to look at me as if I was a naïve little girl who doesn’t want to face this world. I often hear the word « utopist ». May be. My thoughts are the result of one experience.
My experience, even if now it looks like a bedtime storybook, has been very rich. Thanks to my wounds and my need to understand, I have experienced different customs, visions, believes. I loved it but I also got totally lost in it. What is the value of what I believe if I am a sum of influences, chemical reactions, history? I felt like a puppet in the world. Starving, killing: is that real? Should I go run to help him or her? How could I save anyone if I can see anger, despair in myself?
I found out that there is only one driver that I can trust: happiness. I now see despair, suffering but it doesn’t drain me like it used to because I have implemented happiness in my life and I can give with no fear of missing.
Where my mind was seeing contradictions, now it sees a way. Happiness is, to me, a discipline. I learn to let go of things I was trying to hold on to. I am trying new ways and my only barometer is happiness. Now I would have to define happiness.
That’s what I want to do with this blog. Explore science, business, religion, feelings, psychology… to get to understand what I live. Is being happy a mental process?
While I was answering on Korben’s blog post trying to write my vision of economy and how it could be more focused on human happiness, two couchsurfers I am hosting tonight arrived. Richard brought me in a nutshell what I was trying to express. He is part of a new breed of entrepreneurs who have a different focus.
So here is a little interview we did in the garden about him, socksforhappypeople and their values. Business, how it can be profitable and contribute to happiness is a subject that I will develop later on. I hope that the company will grow to see how those values evolve. So Rich, let’s meet again to see if happiness can be sustained in a business environment.
I danced. I spun and spun. I’ve been Dizzy. I experienced a great sens of joy.
At first when Glenneroo (glenn /silly + kangaroo /bouncy = glenneroo / bouncing sillyness ) told me about mobile clubbing, I heard this little voice in my head saying : « don’t be up-tight, go and see. Get outside your comfort zone ». My little voice is always a good adviser so I said “OK ! Let’s go and dance in the middle of the MuseumsQuartier in Vienna.”
I have to confess that I have some difficulties with public display. Sometime I sound like an old lady ☺ Well, when I joined the group, I was using my camera as a protection to stay an observer. Then I started to dance, again, like an old lady.
But before going further and to fully understand my deepest experience in Vienna, you have to know a strange fact.
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Exhibit E:
Vienna is a giant umbrella cemetery. Here, are coming the wealthy umbrellas of the world to have a beautiful end. Braves, they come to the windy city Vienna for a last dance with the wind. Some open completly toward the sky. Others wave like break dancers or embrass their holders.
So now you follow me ? Vienna was very windy when I was there. Cold windy. It was raining and my hands were missing the warmth of the glove. I am very sensitive to cold.
I started to dance; like an old lady as you remember now. Then as we moved toward the center of the gigantic court, the rythm of movements slowly rocks you into a fabulous feeling of freedom. Then you let go of self judgment and you start to feel the air blowing its gentle strongness… Strongness! That can’t be right. Excuse my English but I just was thrilled. I was out of space and time. My hands and feet were warm. I felt an extreme well being but didn’t name it at the time.
At this very moment, a fellow dancer taped on my shoulder. I opened my eyes and he said: “Is this happiness?” At this moment I realised that I lived a great joy that is part for me of a happy life but I was suddenly brought back by the same question I am asking everyone. “What is happiness?”
Several persons I interviewed during this trip asked me what was my vision of happiness and my answer is always different. At this very moment in Vienna, it was: happiness is being here and now. Several people in the happyviews had this learning as a life lesson. I believe that’s what they meant.
Visite guidée
by Joanna on 13/10/2010
Un blog au bout de quelques mois, il est dur de s’y retrouver.
Laissez moi vous guider dans cette exploration.
- Happyview*53: David Ken - Photographe
- Happyview*52: Catherine Berthillier - Grand reporter
- Happyview*51: Arnaud Poissonnier - Financier
- Happyview*50: Chistian Gicquel - Formateur MBSR
- Happyview*49: Elizabeth Couzon - Formatrice et auteure
- Happyview*48: Mabrouck Rachedi - écrivain
- Happyview*47: Brigitte et Garmia - mères SOS
- Happyview*46: Bruno Fabre - créateur de la pyramide du bonheur
- Happyview*45: Philippe Streiff - ancien pilote F1
- Happyview*44: Pr Michel Lejoyeux - psychiatre et auteur de “Changer… en mieux”
- Happyview*43: Martin Marceau - auteur de “Pour des moments de bonheur”
- Happyview*42: Marie-Lise Labonté - auteure de “Derrière le rideau” (Québec)
- Happyview*41: Vincent Houba - formateur en communication non-violente (Belgique)
- Happyview*40: Colette Mesnage - auteur de “Eloge d’une vieillesse heureuse”
- Happyview*39: Christian Bourit - dentiste et auteur de “la vibration du bonheur”
- Happyview*38: Florence Servan-Schreiber - journaliste et auteur de “3 kifs par jour”
- Happyview*37: Bertrand Vergely - philosophe et auteur de “Petite philosophie du bonheur”
- Happiview*35: Yolaine de La Bigne - journaliste et auteure de “Le bon sens dans la vie: c’est le bonheur!”
- Happyview*34: Vincent Cespedes - philosophe et auteur de “Magique étude du bonheur”
- Happyview*33: Charlotte Savreux - présentatrice télé
- Happyview*32: Jean-Christophe - avocat et coach
- Happyview*31: Christine Lewicki - coach et auteur de “J’arrête de râler”
- Happyview*30: Christine Michaud - présentatrice télé et auteur de “c’est beau la vie” (Québec)
- Happyview*29: Leo Bormans - rédacteur en chef - “Happiness: le grand livre du bonheur”(Belgique)
- Happyview*28: Michel Vaujour - fauve paisible
- Happyview*27: Luc Simonet - président de la ligue des optimistes du Royaume de Belgique (Belgique)
- Happyview*26: Fabrice Midal - philosophe
- Happyview*25: Frédéric Lenoir - rédacteur en chef du Monde des religions
- Happyview*24: Vanessa Mielczareck - coach et auteur de “Le guide de la personne heureuse”
- Happyview*22: Bénédicte Ann - fondatrice des cafés de l’amour
- Happyview*21: Yves-Alexandre Thalman - formateur en psychologie et auteur de “petit cahier d’exercices d’entrainement au bonheur” (Suisse)
- Happyview*20: Phap Kinh - moine bouddhiste
- Happyview*18: Marc Vella - musicien
- Happyview*17: Bernard Campan - acteur
- Happyview*16: Jacques Lecomte - psychologue et auteur de “Elixir de bonheur”
- Happyview*15: Robert Misrahi - philosophe et auteur de “Les actes de la joie”
- Happyview*13: Etienne Jalenque - psychiatre et auteur de “La thérapie du bonheur”
- Happyview*12: Lilou Macé - journaliste
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- Sourire: Contrôleur du Bonheur
- Chanson: Pierre le colporteur de chansons
- Créativité: Mandalas végétaux de Lone
- Happyview*23: l’Atelier de charenton - peinture
- Happyview*10: le yoga du rire
- Jeu: Champions du bonheur
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1. L’hypothèse du bonheur Jonathan Haidt - psychologie positive et philosophie
2. Ce qu’il faut savoir avant de mourir John Izzo - développement personnel
3. Les carnets de la grenouille noire La grenouille noire - BD
4. Comment être heureux et le rester Sonja Lyubomirsky - psychologie positive (article en anglais)
Moodstep c’est aussi ma vision du bonheur:
Ma vision du bonheur
Ma vision du bonheur 2
Faut que ça déborde
Réponse à un bricoleur
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Et si vous êtes ami avec l’anglais: découvrez les articles en anglais
Et tout particulièrement:
The happiness Formula - Deepak Chopra
“Happines is love, full stop”
The chemistry of happiness
Are you synthesizing happiness?
Schopenhauer on happiness
Happiness at school
Mon voyage à travers l’europe
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Joanna