Happiness Break: Visualizing Your Purpose, with Dacher Keltner

How to Do This Practice:

1. Find a comfortable place to do this practice. Once you feel ready, relax your shoulders and close your eyes. Focus on your breathing, and take a few slow, deep breaths. 

2. Think about the world around you. If you could change one thing in society, what would it be? 

3. Imagine this ideal world. Visualize it manifesting before you. Notice what you see and how you feel in as much detail as possible.

4. Is there anything that you can do to make this a reality? It can be anything, no matter how small. Think of some manageable steps you can take to get a little closer to what you’ve imagined.

5. Return your focus to your breathing to close out this practice.

6. If you have the time, jot down your thoughts and goals. 

Today’s Happiness Break host:

Dacher Keltner is the host of the Greater Good Science Center’s award-winning podcast, The Science of Happiness and is a co-instructor of the GGSC’s popular online course of the same name. He’s also the founding director of the Greater Good Science Center and a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Check out Dacher’s most recent book, *Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life: *