Can Just a Sentence a Day Make You Happier?
“One sentence is enough. When I look back on it years later, that one sentence really does keep memories vivid — it really does bring back the past — which is one of the things you really want a journal to do,” Rubin explains. Science is on her side — studies show simply looking back on everyday experiences can bring us outsize joy.
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There are numerous variations on these simple activities but the original intervention (Emmons and McCullough, 2003) consisted of taking time once per week to reflect upon five things in life that one was grateful for and writing these down, and then repeating this for ten consecutive weeks.