HAPPINESS: Turning Up Your Levels For Optimum Health

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 “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”Mohandas Gandhi[1]

HOW HAPPY ARE YOU?

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You come equipped with a quotient of emotions and values necessary to your well-being. Where does your happy gauge sit? Twenty five percent happy most of the time or seventy five percent happy some of the time. Maybe your happy gauge swings back and forth between the two. As you observe in your day-to-day living, people differ in their levels of happiness.  This is true for other emotions and values. You may know some people who seem to be ‘super happy’ all the time.

It is a scientific fact that people who are happy live longer and are healthier. How can you enhance your happiness? Scientists have been studying people who live the longest throughout the world and documenting their levels of well-being. National Geographic documented the nine characteristics common to the Blue Zone areas of the world. Learn how to live longer and healthier by following the lifestyle lessons outlined of people living in blue zones.

 

TOPPING UP YOUR HAPPY LEVELS

It’s not necessary to travel the world to find ways to change your happiness level, your ability to be positive and ‘rock and roll’ with life’s challenges. Although your personality is in part what you were born with; you have the ability to change where your happiness meter runs and how you perceive and respond to your world, people and events.

It is much easier to be positive and optimistic, which are crucial to well-being, when you are happy. Numerous emotions and values have the potential to promote a positive and optimistic attitude, and ultimately well-being. Other emotions and values require monitoring in terms their negative impact on well-being.

Emotional intelligence is a form of social intelligence that influences your ability to cope and guides your thoughts and actions. SEL, social and emotional learning,[2] is the process through which you can learn to increase your emotional intelligence. Countless programs and tools are available to enhance the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed to recognize and manage your emotions, be more caring and positive in relationships, make responsible decisions, and handle challenging situations constructively. Social and emotional learning programs are often part of workplace training, improving work relationships and productivity. Healthy emotional intelligence is a key primary ingredient in rejuvenation.

You have the ability to increase your default happiness meter setting to provide you with increased happiness and health benefits. Learn how to become a happier version of you.

 

GETTING ‘MORE HAPPY’ TOOLS

 

Following are just a few resources to aid you in enhancing your emotional and value quotients.

ENJOY more happy today! You can become more happy, one step at a time! Start today.

Need help in your journey to a ‘happier you’?  Consider hiring a well-being coach to keep you on track.

Elisabeth Hines, C.N.C., C.B.P., Holistic Wellness Practitioner, www.mybodycanhealitself.ca, elisabethlhines@gmail.com


[1] Mahatma Gandhi. BrainyQuote.com, Xplore Inc, 2012. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/mahatmagan134953.html, accessed February 10, 2012.

[2] Collaboration for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning, http://casel.org/, ©20111-12, visited May 28, 2012.

[3] The Hawn Foundation, http://www.thehawnfoundation.org/mindup-studies, ©2010, visited May 29, 2010.

[4] Victor Frankl Institute, http://www.viktorfrankl.org, visited June 28, 2011.

The Ultimate Gift:  www.theultimategift.com

The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation http://www.randomactsofkindness.org/

The Pay It Forward Foundation http://www.payitforwardfoundation.org/

 

 

LIVE DEPRESSION FREE: An Attainable Reality

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I have started a Facebook community page with information that can help you to LIVE DEPRESSION FREE. There are many ways to become depression free. Increasing ‘feel good endorphins’ is one way. I will be posting the many strategies that helped and still do help me to LIVE DEPRESSION FREE. Please share my LIVE DEPRESSION FREE page at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Live-Depression-Free/532340573499169 with anyone you know who could use a boost. We can all use a ‘happy place’ to visit when life becomes a struggle.

Please share and like my page LIVE DEPRESSION FREE PAGE.

For more of my strategies to become depression free buy my ebook DEPRESSION Gone.

 RECLAIM YOUR HAPPINESS AND LIFE TODAY! 

ENJOY better health today!

Thanks.

Elisabeth Hines, C.N.C., C.B.P.
Holistic Wellness Practitioner
www.mybodycanhealitself.ca