This article is in our series about increasing happiness and life satisfaction.  Many people with chronic pain can’t decrease their pain.  So another way to live a more enjoyable and fulfilling life – perhaps even more important – is to increase the positive.  That’s what we’ll be looking at in this series.

You can take a very short happiness quiz (you will have to register at the site) to see where you are currently.  Before beginning a series of exercises to see what helps you most to increase your happiness, what do you believe makes up a happy life?  Both research and different cultures say that a collection of things helps people be happy.  From your own life, what do you think they are?