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Movies that Support a Happy Life

Movies can be powerful tools in creating a happy life because of their ability to evoke strong emotions and to tell powerful stories. Movies can also be an instant vacation, taking you from your troubles into a whole new world for a while. Movies can show us how to act, inspire us to take action, or change the way we think and see. Use these reviews to find the best ones to improve your happy life.

Our Happy Life Movie Reviews fall into a couple of categories:

Stories that model happy, healthy behaviors
Stories with happy endings that make us rejoice
Inspiring shorts films that evoke good emotions
Instructional films that tell us how to be happy
Documentaries that show how others live happy lives

You can depend on our recommendations to deliver tools for your happy life.

Stories that Model Happy, Healthy Behaviors

There is some fascinating research on the role of stories in how we learn. In their book, Influencer, by Patterson, Grenny, Maxfield, and McMillan, the authors give several examples of social change resulting from television series. For example, Miguel Sabeto, in Mexico, ran a series of soap operas featuring an adult character who could not read and signed up for literacy classes. Immediately following the episode where the character’s life improved after a few literacy classes, adults in Mexico City overwhelmed the literacy centers with a high demand for information. These movie reviews show some good examples of stories that model happy behavior include:

Inspiring Shorts to Evoke Positive Emotions

Many researchers use short movies to establish a mood or emotional state as part of their research. It has been shown that watching peaceful nature scenes, scenes of happy people and scenes of people doing good works all evoke positive emotions. Here are some of our suggestions. Our movie reviews show these recommendations all work to evoke positive emotions. By the way, all of these are available for you to view for free.

Simple Truths Inspirational Movies: Short slide shows with beautiful photography and music and inspiring quotes. In 2 or 3 minutes these movies can turn your whole day around. You can view many of the videos for free, or purchase them on DVD. Every video comes with a fine coffee table book with more photographs and inspirational materials. Here are some of our favorites.; Nature's Inspiration; Finding Joy; Inspiration 365 Days A Year; Laughter is an Instant Vacation
You Tube Videos The Sound of Music in a Train Station This short is bound to cheer up your day and leave you humming.: Don’t Worry, Be HappyNot only do you hear this cheery song, but the visuals are bound to make you laugh. Starring Bobby McFerrin.; O Happy Day from Sister Act 2If you like gospel music, this is sure to lift your spirits. It also shows a group of people relaxing into a musical performance from a tense beginning- a model for getting happy.

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