The happiness-health connection

On December 31, 2020, in Commentary, by Erik

The way to a long life filled with health and happiness is filling your life with positivity and happiness. Having children can be a great source of joy, but it can also be a great source of stress and hardship, it can also have an affect on your marriage. The amount of joy you put into your life will make all the difference, and if you are truly enjoying yourself, you will feel free and not be worried about how you’re looking or acting.

Key Takeaways:

  • Start by focusing on the things that bring you happiness. Scientific evidence suggests that positive emotions can help make life longer and healthier.
  • Through focus groups and testing hundreds of volunteers, they found that each of these pathways individually contributes to life satisfaction.
  • Although you may be working harder than usual, at flow moments everything is “clicking” and feels almost effortless.

“For decades, Csikszentmihalyi explored people’s satisfaction in their everyday activities, finding that people report the greatest satisfaction when they are totally immersed in and concentrating on what they are doing — he dubbed this state of intense absorption “flow.””

Read more: https://www.health.harvard.edu/healthbeat/the-happiness-health-connection

 

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