Happiness Can Fetch You Good Health
Numerous studies have revealed that unhappiness has a negative effect on health. While a recent study shows a delayed connection between stress and cardiovascular disease, the other shows a deep link between depression and atherosclerosis. Reports also suggest that the prevalence of cardiovascular diseases increased by 53% post 9/11.
Research also shows increasing wealth and opportunities in the West (including Europe and America) have led to decreased happiness levels. The power of super foods and exercises is only limited to making you physically fit but the key to a healthy mind is happiness, positivism and satisfaction.
Happiness Facts
Much to your belief there is something called the “science of happiness” which clearly enables you to look within yourself and address the issues which are destroying your happiness.
Some scientific facts about “happiness” are listed here below:
- Women remain unhappy till they reach the age of 50 years where men too catch up
- Disappointment leads to unhappiness
- Happiness is measurable
- Not even one thing can make us completely happy
- Strong social connections contribute towards happiness and well-being
- Excess wants leads to unhappiness
- Happiness is a magical experience
- Wealth doesn’t completely make one happy
- Tireless journeys from home to office and back make people stressed and anxious
- Happily married couples remain happy most of the time
- Yoga and meditation techniques can calm the mind
- Friendship and bonding calls for happiness
- The religious, pious and philosophers are much happier in life than others
- Caring for others and doing good for others leads to true happiness
Authors like Cohen Sheldon from the Carnegie Mellon University are of the opinion that emotions can directly influence health by means of affecting our lifestyle choices, functioning of the immune system and the nervous system. However, he asserts that further discovery and research is required for determining whether “emotions” can influence health or trigger an illness or disease instantly.
As documented, personal wealth, successful relationships, successful careers and spirituality are the keys to happiness. Experts opine that people should start from nutritional alteration to improve their physical, mental and spiritual states.
It is believed that healthy eating habits can have an emotionally healing effect on the body. This makes us believe that happiness is a natural way of detoxifying the body from all the impurities or worries that may have accumulated over time.
Happiness has the power to make things easy for people which contributes to a stress-free life and hence a much healthier and longer life. Good health rests on our ability to do things which make us happy, satisfied and peaceful; so start now!
