This week’s resolution, to tap into the power of hearing, is to Listen to your favorite upbeat song.

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Listen to your favorite upbeat song.

If you’re curious about the song I mention, the Border ballad Raggle Taggle Gypsies, here are two great versions, from the Waterboys and from the Irish Descendants. (Preview: a very careful reader of Happier at Home will spot a fleeting reference to the song, which, as it happens, is also an allusion to Virginia Woolf.)

How about you? Do you find that listening to your favorite music cheers you? What song do you know will lift your spirits, every time?

If you want to read more about this resolution, check out…
Want to feel happier? Listen to a favorite song.
The joy of rediscovering a song I love.
9 tips for dealing with a happiness emergency — in the next hour.

This month’s theme is the Five Senses, and last week’s resolution was to Tap into your senses–go outside.