Self-review; an activity for Happiness

In recent years, happiness Studies have increased dramatically and the occurrence of extensive developments in positive psychology has created a lot of interest to response to this question that how to live happier. The researchers believe that factors such as heredity, environment and voluntary activities can play a decisive role in people's happiness levels. Increasing fixed point of individual happiness (inheritance) and change the living conditions of people are not useful methods to stable increasing of happiness in people. Thus, positive voluntary activities are one of the best and the most likely method for increasing happiness. The self-review method which basically is a cognitive restructuring method also is a voluntary, cognitive and positive activity. In this method, a person must deliberately review its positive features and continue negative features with the phrase of “instead”. Over time, this voluntary, cognitive and positive activity reduce negative thoughts and emotions (reduce emotional investment on the negative features) and increase positive thoughts and emotions. Thus, using the self-review method can boost mental association in expression of positive features of self and therefore increase level of happiness in people. The results of this paper can be applied in educational and clinical situation.