The ART OF LIFE: The Science of Living

There is a plethora of positive and negative events happening right now.
Think about positive things and you will feel better. If you focus on the negative, you'll end up with... well, you know.
Adapted from "Attention and the Focused Life", by the authors of "Rapt"
To some extent, the things you don't know simply don't exist, at least in your mind. You pay attention to things selectively throughout the day, and you have much more control over this process than you might think. To truly manage your experience and, eventually, your happiness, you must learn to focus on it while ignoring it.
It's been scientifically proven that focusing on happiness can make your world bigger. When you just see evil, it shrinks.
The research of Barbara Ferrell, a psychologist at Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill, as reported in Rapt: Attn. and Focused Living demonstrates that focusing on positive feelings fundamentally expands one's globe, while focusing on bad emotions also shrinks it, and that this has important implications for your day-to-day life.