Top 10 Ways To Be Happy
Fitness, Health & Nutrition, Health News November 27th, 2006
If you have 10 reasons to be sad and depressed, there are 100 reasons to be happy. It all depends on the way you handle stress and problems. If you really want to be happy, you first need to make a conscious decision that you are going to be happy no matter what. There are numerous benefits of being happy – you will be more healthier and have a positive outlook towards life.
Here are some ways to bring back the happiness in your life:
1. Stop trying to be perfect. Don’t expect perfection from yourself or from anybody. You don’t need to impress people around you and you don’t have to get everything done perfectly.
“Nobody in this world is perfect. Iam Nobody”
2. Be happy and satisfied with what you have. Stop comparing with others at every stage, this will infact add to your misery. Be happy and content with your life. Remove the feelings of jealousy and enemity.
3. Schedule some time for yourself. Give yourself one hour each day when you can truly relax and enjoy yourself. Do some exercise, work on a hobby, go for a walk, or read a book. Pamper youself with some massages or beauty therapies. Meditate or pray to God. This will renew your energy and concentration.
4. If you are too stressed at work, take a break and refresh your energy. Go for a holiday with your family and friends. Explore new places. Taking breaks helps your body recover the lost energy. You may take short or long breaks, depending on your work and stress levels. When you get back to work after a break, your concentration and focus improves a great deal and you are more motivated.
5. Don’t be alone all the time. Go out with your friends and talk to them on the phone regularly. Watch a movie, go shopping or do things that you always loved but did not get the time because of your busy schedules. Call your friends home and watch a funny movie together.
6. If you are a working parent, take a break from work and spend time with your kids. Or play with your pets. Visit your relatives and throw a party for them. Dance and sing with them.
7. Be grateful to people around you. Be thankful for even small favours and blessings.
8. Help Others. It has been observed that helping others gives you immense satisfaction and happiness. Make someone’s life more beautiful by contributing in your own small way.
9. Re-assess your priorties. Spend time with your family and pray to God. Stay in the present. Do not waste time regretting your past or worrying about the future.
10. Laugh out loud atleast once in a day and keep smiling. Focus on things that keep you happy instead of those that keep you down. Forget your worries and pains, everybody in this world, has some problems. But it all depends on the way you deal with it.
December 16th, 2006 at 5:38 am
11. Wellness or a big salary (often means a lot of work and stress) don’t make you more happy. 12. Happiness also starts in your body. You need to be healthy and be good to yourself to be happy.
December 16th, 2006 at 7:08 pm
One BIGGIE was left out and that’s having an active prayer life. Many modern studies have shown that religious people (”the faithful”) have lower stress, greater joy, and live longer and happier lives. Keep Well, Rob Vanden Heuvel
Wellness Home Consultant
December 17th, 2006 at 10:24 am
That is wonderful advice!
Everyone of them are usefull for having a happier life, especially prayer and being more spiritual.
Thanks!
Arlene
December 17th, 2006 at 8:03 pm
11) Take anti-depressants often. Remember even booze can lift your spirits up!
December 18th, 2006 at 4:47 pm
Earn enough money to be able to
Pamoer your self with massages and luxuries and meditation courses.
to gaive away to charity
To buy enough good gifts for those around you and your family to please them and make eachother happy
to afford health insurance keep your body and mind from hurting you
to afford trouble fraa living in decent homes not needing repairs often
December 21st, 2006 at 9:18 pm
what if you have no friends to go out with
that doesnt help much does it
December 21st, 2006 at 10:12 pm
“Spend time with your family and pray to God. Stay in the present. Do not waste time regretting your past or worrying about the future.”
Praying to God, in my opinion, is worrying about your future
December 31st, 2006 at 5:22 pm
Forget all that religious bullshit, you’ll feel better, do more for your fellow humans, and stop worrying.
January 1st, 2007 at 12:55 pm
Don’t waste time praying to God, there isn’t one. Use your short life more efficiently and enjoy it while it lasts.
January 1st, 2007 at 11:19 pm
A lot of good information, but keep the God shit out! The most religious people in the world are poor and fucked by the other most religious ones, the hypocritical, filthy rich ones.
But the rest of the advice here is very good, and based on psychological studies.
One last note about the previously mentioned study. It is partially true that when you pray you feel better but that is just one more form of denial and that only works for a little while. Another exam also notice that people who prayed while sick in a hospital did not get any extra benefits in contrast to the ones that were more spiritual with body and mind exercises that exclude “a God” this group faired a little better.
Cheers,
Mitch
January 7th, 2007 at 9:25 am
Want proof prayer doesn’t work? HEART, a peer reviewed journal for cardiologists, has a study proving the worst patients were those who knew people prayed for them. it’s online, look it up. Happy Heart Health from me to you! Don’t pray for anyone! Save their heart! (it’s double blind, peer reviewed…a study by cardiologists, psychiatrists and some people from the church) They had the worst outcomes after heart surgery…controlled for everything and still.. they did worse…Those who didn’t know (2 groups one prayed for, one not, had no difference) But if you knew they (the hospital calls them The God Squad) were praying for you, well, you got sicker…
People who don’t believe in God are finally coming out of the closet and we are so weary of seeing “pray to God” on every list (did you miss it Tim, it is here). Agressive? us? Hardly…I turn on the TV and there’s another in your face bible thumper..we’re just asking – keep your prayers and faith out of lists. Imagine…a world where people do good not because it is demanded or commanded but because it makes them happy….because it is simply the best way to spend our time here.
January 18th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
NICE STUFF,IT’S FUNNY I HAVE WORKED FOR ONE OF THE LARGEST CHRISTIAN “NON-PROFIT”GROUPS IN THE WORLD FOR THE LAST 9 YEARS AND I AM NOT A CHRISTIAN! WHAT I DO BELIEVE IN IS HELPING PEOPLE INCLUDING YOURSELF.TOO MANY SMILEY FACED GLAD HAND ASSHOLES THAT DON’T GIVE A DAMN YA’KNOW.
TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON!
September 1st, 2007 at 12:20 am
Even this list is creating an idea of perfection in my mind. “I have to call my friends regularly” , “i have to stop thinking about how i suck” ,
“i have to help someone, hey you! do you need help? no? you ? no ? damn! ”
If you can decieve yourself to believe in this, you can make some temporary progress…
September 3rd, 2007 at 9:04 pm
OK not all Christians are like what you say so don’t take it out on all of us!
may i say if their hearts did worse it was probably a lack of faith on their part….
also you guys have no idea what you’re talking about!!! but anyways i wish you luck finding your happiness in such an unsatisfying world!
November 9th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
Just try God and your life will never be the same again.He will give you peace that the world can not offer love,joy and more other gifts.You do not have to earn them by your effort just receive him in your heart and he shower his blessings upon you
January 4th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
This article made me realize how important it is to accept what God gave me. It shouldn’t matter or not if I don’t have a perfect nose or perfect height.
February 24th, 2009 at 1:50 am
i want to try this, if i can make it…at least you gave me an idea on how to make myself happy and enjoy of everything that i have for every day of my life…hope this will wish me a luck!!!