It’s evident from the research that happiness and gratitude can make us healthier. Researchers have found significant evidence that people who are happy tend to be healthier and live longer. In the famous “Nun Study,” the happiest quartile of nuns studied lived an average of 6.9 years longer than the unhappiest quartile. Another long-term study following [...]
Everybody knows the story of Scrooge. He’s a sickly, mean, and selfish guy. With each act of kindness he commits, however, he becomes healthier, happier, and better off overall. What everybody doesn’t know is that Scrooge isn’t just a metaphor for the jerk next door. Research over the past 20 years has repeatedly shown that helping [...]
Research has shown that optimistically-minded people are less likely to be hospitalized after coronary bypass surgery, have less pain, fewer physical symptoms and better physical functioning than those who are pessimistic. Over the last several decades, there has been a surge of research on the topic of optimism, with findings strongly linking an optimistic attitude to [...]
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