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Houseplants Can Make You Happy

What you can do: Buy, adopt, or grow a houseplant to cultivate your overall well-being.

Happy Makes You Healthy

What you can do: Bolster your health with simple happiness-boosting strategies: Give thanks, exercise your strengths, take note of your blessings.

Happiness: The Infection Everyone Wants to Catch

What you can do: Cultivate happiness in yourself; expose yourself to happiness from others.

Wealth Can’t Buy Health, but Your Perception of It Can

What you can do: Find ways to gain perspective about your finances.

Mind-Body-Mood Advisor: The Pursuit of Happiness Is Good for Your Health

What you can do: Take control of your own happiness with daily acts of kindness, gratitude, and goal-seeking.

What’s It Take to Be Happy? Not Much

What you can do: Appreciate sincere emotion when you feel it in your gut; seek out tiny moments of gratitude and positive energy.

Mind-Body-Mood Advisor: When All Seems Lost, Resilience Gets You Through

What you can do: Reach for help when you need it, and cultivate acceptance of your pain and confidence in your ability to handle it.

Optimistic Women Have Healthier Hearts

What you can do: Develop good coping strategies, lean on your friends, and be realistic about expectations.

Study: Gratitude is an Antidepressant

What you can do: Count your blessings—literally. Set aside some time every evening to list five things that happened that day for which you are grateful.

Mind-Body-Mood Advisor: How to Grow Your Own Hope

What you can do: Learn to call on positive feelings at will, and spend time involved with people and activities that encourage positivity.