Health is directly related to happiness. A healthy and wealthy person always remains happy and if you are not sure of it, please talk to a doctor or a gym instructor. They will always have a smile on their faces. Happiness, in many ways is depending on health. A person, who is ill, will not be happy in the long run. She might smile momentarily and try to hide her soreness, but she cannot consider herself to be happy. It is very important to be healthy to lead a happy life.
Happy people, in turn are always healthy. Yes, being happy is the best way to be healthy. Happiness and health go hand in hand. It is true and many researches across the world have proved time and again that if you are happy, there is a lesser chance that you will have a cardiac arrest or diabetes or hypertension and similar diseases. Happier people are less prone to such chronic diseases. We can avoid lot of heart attacks with a smile on the face along with a peaceful and happier mind and heart.
People have many and varied goals that they pursue, there is an almost universal underlying goal to virtually all pursuits: the goal to be happy. People who spend a lot of time making money generally do so because they believe that the money itself will make them happy, or will guard them against things that will make them unhappy. If the focus isn’t on the money, but on the jobs that bring the money, those jobs are generally thought to make people happy. People strive for that perfect relationship, the perfect house, the beautiful body, the approval of others, all in an attempt to be happy. Sometimes these things make us happy; other times, we stress over not having reached our goals, or we reach them and find that we’re still not happy. Other times, we focus so intensely on one goal that’s thought to bring happiness that we don’t have time for other things in our life that will make us truly happy. This can all be confusing, and begs the question: how does one reach the goal of being happy?
While there’s more to happiness than just the absence of stress, there are relationships between stress-relieving activities and happiness. Dr. Michael Frisch, a Baylor University professor and another pioneer in the field of positive psychology, has found 16 different areas of life that contribute to a person’s happiness, and measuring satisfaction in these areas can help measure a person’s overall level of happiness and life satisfaction. Interestingly, many of the things that bring happiness are also things that relieve stress, such as EXERCISE, expressing creativity, maintaining supportive friendships, keeping an organized home, and enjoying your work.
When you’re overwhelmed with stress, often just relieving the imminent pressures is foremost on your mind; however, following a stress relief program that also incorporates activities known to increase overall happiness can give you short-term stress relief, and the lasting gains of a happy life. And when you incorporate into your life a general state of happiness, and make habit the lifestyle features that promote it, you’ll be better able to weather future stress in your life.
The following is a list of the 16 different features that promote happiness:
Health
Self-Esteem
Goals, values, and Spiritual Life
Money
Work
Play
Learning
Creativity
Helping
Love
Friends
Children
Relatives
Home
Neighborhood
Community
Take some of these features and put them into your life, the more the merrier. Put a smile on and wear it proud!
Lauren I Smith Is the Fitness Director at Equilibrium Fitness and is certified through NASM. Contact Lauren at Lauren@eqclubs.com with questions or comments.
