Positives Denken hilft nicht: http://mymonk.de/woop/
Focus: Tools: http://99u.com/articles/6969/10-online-tools-for-better-attention-focus
http://themindunleashed.org/2014/12/focus-wandering-mind.html
In der Glücksforschung gibt es natürlich viele Hinweise darauf, was uns langfristig macht. Dennoch sind diese Fragen eher im Makroskopischen Bereich angesiedelt und entscheiden sich über längere Lebenswege. Die Gleichtemperaturthese wirkt hierbei. Sie besagt, egal wie schwer Lebensereignisse wiegen, wir kehren immer wieder zu unserer durchschnittlichen Glückstemperatur zurück. Ein Verunglückter käme so irgendwann wieder aus seiner Depression und ein Lottogewinner, der zuvor depressiv war, werde auch wieder depressiv werden. Diese Thesen lassen sich durch Daten annähernd belegen. Es stellt sich daher die Frage, was uns wesentlich konkreter im Leben bestimmt und ihr zeigt sich, dass Einkommen und Beziehung zwar Einflüsse haben, wesentlich wichtiger aber ist die Frage nach dem Träumen:
"my research is driven by the idea that happiness may have more to do with the contents of our moment-to-moment experiences than with the major conditions of our lives."
http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/does_mind_wandering_make_you_unhappy
Nach weiteren Studien sei unser Glück vorrangig auch von Momenten abhängig:
My results suggest that happiness is indeed highly sensitive to the contents of our moment-to-moment experience. And one of the most powerful predictors of happiness is something we often do without even realizing it: mind-wandering.
This ability to focus our attention on something other than the present is really amazing. It allows us to learn and plan and reason in ways that no other species of animal can. And yet it’s not clear what the relationship is between our use of this ability and our happiness.
You’ve probably heard people suggest that you should stay focused on the present. “Be here now,” as Ram Dass advised back in 1971. Maybe, to be happy, we need to stay completely immersed and focused on our experience in the moment. Maybe this is good advice; maybe mind-wandering is a bad thing.
http://www.trackyourhappiness.org/
Gehen wir aber vielleicht an Orte, die uns glücklicher machen?
In other words, maybe the pleasures of the mind allow us to increase our happiness by mind-wandering.
Mind-Wandering, also Träumen macht unglücklicher...
Data
In the results I’m going to describe, I will focus on people’s responses to three questions. The first was a happiness question: How do you feel? on a scale ranging from very bad to very good. Second, an activity question: What are you doing? on a list of 22 different activities including things like eating and working and watching TV. And finally a mind-wandering question: Are you thinking about something other than what you’re currently doing? People could say no (in other words, they are focused only on their current activity) or yes (they are thinking about something else). We also asked if the topic of those thoughts is pleasant, neutral, or unpleasant. Any of those yes responses are what we called mind-wandering.
We’ve been fortunate with this project to collect a lot of data, a lot more data of this kind than has ever been collected before, over 650,000 real-time reports from over 15,000 people. And it’s not just a lot of people, it’s a really diverse group, people from a wide range of ages, from 18 to late 80s, a wide range of incomes, education levels, marital statuses, and so on. They collectively represent every one of 86 occupational categories and hail from over 80 countries.
How does mind-wandering relate to happiness? We found that people are substantially less happy when their minds are wandering than when they’re not, which is unfortunate considering we do it so often. Moreover, the size of this effect is large—how often a person’s mind wanders, and what they think about when it does, is far more predictive of happiness than how much money they make, for example.
Now you might look at this result and say, “Ok, on average people are less happy when they’re mind-wandering, but surely when their minds are straying away from something that wasn’t very enjoyable to begin with, at least then mind-wandering will be beneficial for happiness.”
s it turns out, people are less happy when they’re mind-wandering no matter what they’re doing. For example, people don’t really like commuting to work very much; it’s one of their least enjoyable activities. Yet people are substantially happier when they’re focused only on their commute than when their mind is wandering off to something else. This pattern holds for every single activity we measured, including the least enjoyable.
How could this be happening? I think a big part of the reason is that when our minds wander, we often think about unpleasant things: our worries, our anxieties, our regrets. These negative thoughts turn out to have a gigantic relationship to (un)happiness. Yet even when people are thinking about something they describe as neutral, they’re still considerably less happy than when they’re not mind-wandering. In fact, even when they’re thinking about something they describe as pleasant, they’re still slightly less happy than when they aren’t mind-wandering at all.
http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/why_mindfulness_matters
http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/gg_live/science_meaningful_life_videos/speaker/jon_kabat-zinn/what_is_mindfulness/
