10 Simple Habits Proven to Make You Happier - After your stroke

How is your doctor, social worker, and psychologist making sure you are happy regardless of the outcome of your stroke? All the incredible physical things I used to love doing are now impossible so I've replaced them with numerous new social connections.  Until SOMEONE ELSE  HAS SOLVED THE SPASTICITY PROBLEM I won't be able to get back to them.
http://www.spring.org.uk/2014/03/10-simple-habits-proven-to-make-you-happier.php 

The finding comes from a survey carried out by the charity Action for Happiness, in collaboration with Do Something Different.

For their survey, they identified ten everyday habits which science has shown can make people happier.

Here are the 10 habits, with the average ratings of survey participants on a scale of 1-10, as to how often they performed each habit:

1. Giving: do things for others — 7.41
2. Relating: connect with people — 7.36
3. Exercising: take care of your body — 5.88
4. Appreciating: notice the world around — 6.57
5. Trying out: keep learning new things — 6.26
6. Direction: have goals to look forward to 6.08
7. Resilience: find ways to bounce back — 6.33
8. Emotion: take a positive approach — 6.74
9. Acceptance: be comfortable with who you are — 5.56
10. Meaning: be part of something bigger — 6.38

(You’ll notice that the first letters spell out the words GREAT DREAM.)

The survey showed that one of the largest associations between these happy habits and reported happiness was for self-acceptance.

This category, though, got the lowest rating for people actually performing the habit, with an average of only 5.56.

Top of the list of happy habits that people performed was ‘giving’.

In this category, one in six reported a 10 out of 10; just over one-third scored an 8 or 9; slightly fewer scored 6 or 7; and less than one in six (15%) rated themselves at 5 or less.