3 Ways Your Brain Robs You of Happiness (and How to Stop It)

We all have natural cognitive distortions that are meant to help us relieve stress and preserve our feelings of happiness and wellbeing. Perhaps more often than we realize, however, our natural distortions can be counterproductive and decrease our happiness. Beginning with cognitive bias, here are three distortions to become aware of, and what to do to keep yourself falling prey to them.

Ways Your Brain Robs You of Happiness We all have natural cognitive distortions that are meant to help us relieve stress and preserve our feelings of happiness and wellbeing. However, our natural distortions can be counterproductive and decrease our happiness. Here are three distortions you should know. READ NOW  READ THESE NEXT How Cognitive Biases Influence Our Thoughts and Actions MORE How Your Brain Can Create False Memories MORE 5 Surprising Ways That Memory Works MORE A DOTDASH BRAND You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the Healthy Mind newsletter. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10036 © 2017 Verywell.com - All rights reserved. Privacy Policy.