Happiness Safari - Journey Through Positive Emotions

Happiness Safari is a journey through five emotions that make life feel good — gratitude, joy, awe, serenity, and love. These are drawn from psychologist Barbara Fredrickson's research on the ten forms of positive emotion, from her book "Positivity." Each session opens with a short teaching segment exploring what positive psychology research actually says about that emotion — why it matters, how it works in the body and mind, and what the science shows about cultivating more of it — before moving into a guided meditation built specifically to practice what you just learned. Along the way, we also look at where these practices come from outside the research literature — including Islamic traditions of gratitude, Swahili and East African concepts of contentment and togetherness, the Buddhist origins of loving-kindness meditation, the Ubuntu/utu philosophy of Southern and East Africa, and the Asian contemplative roots of modern mindfulness — because these emotions were being practiced deliberately long before anyone studied them in a lab. Think of each stop as a piece of terrain on a safari: we study the landscape first, then walk through it together. By the end, you'll have five research-backed, globally rooted tools for wellbeing, not just five relaxing tracks.