{"id":8197,"date":"2019-04-30T09:34:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T13:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=8197"},"modified":"2019-04-30T16:46:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T20:46:35","slug":"how-can-i-be-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/04\/30\/how-can-i-be-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"How can I be Happy? :-)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"318\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/aw043019-8.jpg\" alt=\"How can I be Happy? :-)\" class=\"wp-image-8176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/aw043019-8.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/aw043019-8-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/aw043019-8-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/aw043019-8-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption>How can I be Happy? \ud83d\ude42<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you mean, how can you feel a deep sense of pleasure or contentment, esp. arising from satisfaction with one&#8217;s circumstances or condition? (Oxford English Dictionary) Focus on what&#8217;s good in the present moment about your circumstances or condition. The Buddhist leader Thich Nhat Hanh provides some good guidance for this kind of focus in <em>Peace is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life<\/em> (O&#8217;Neill Library BQ5410 .N46x 1992).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you mean, how can you feel a deep sense of pleasure or contentment, esp. arising from satisfaction with one&#8217;s circumstances or condition? (Oxford English Dictionary) Focus on what&#8217;s good in the present moment about your circumstances or condition. The Buddhist leader Thich Nhat Hanh provides some good guidance for this kind of focus in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/04\/30\/how-can-i-be-happy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How can I be Happy? :-)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-wellness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8197"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8227,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8197\/revisions\/8227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}