Six tips and exercises to be happier from the Spanish doctor Mario Alonso Puig. "I have spent more than 30 years of my life trying to understand why we complicate things so much," he acknowledges in his latest book The Path of Awakening.
"Of course happiness depends on oneself, subjective well-being does not," he says. "Happiness is the joy of the heart, and the heart only experiences joy when it is shared," he adds. "For one week, do your best to smile at people you interact with," he advises.