Ten knots of happiness
The following are the knots of happiness, in other words, the conditions without which hope to visit signified, is not necessary.
1. Exercise regularly - 7 minutes would be sufficient.
Perhaps you have already heard something about the article from New York Times, which said the scientifically proven benefits of 7-minute quick charge. So, if you thought before that you do not have time to do exercise, but now you no longer have any reason to give them up.
Physical exercise can greatly increase the degree of happiness and well-being, and scientists have long proven the effectiveness of exercise in the fight against depression. In one of the scientific experiments mentioned in the book Eykora Sean (Shawn Achor) titled The advantage of being happy» («The Happiness Advantage»), depressed patients were divided into three groups: the first group of volunteers had to treat their depression using medicines from the second - with the help of exercise, from the third - with the help of medicines and exercise in the complex. The results of this study, I was very surprised. Although the patients of all three groups feel equally improved results of the final assessment of their condition were completely different:
Six months later, the patients of the three groups again underwent a medical examination conducted to assess the frequency of relapses. 38% of those treated solely with medication depression, again showed all the symptoms of depression. Those patients, who, along with taking drugs to exercise, too, showed the results are not too good - 31% of recurrences.
A key finding were the results in patients being treated for depression with exercise: the relapse rate in this group was only 9%!
You do not have to suffer from depression, to feel the beneficial effects of exercise. They can help you relax, improve brain function and adjust the shape, even if you set a goal to reduce weight.
The authors of the study, the results of which were published in the Journal of Health Psychology, found that people who regularly perform physical exercise, more likely to be happy with your body, even if there are no visible changes take place:
The scientists assessed the weight and shapes people's perception of their own body in 16 men and 18 women before and after the six 40-minute sports and reading books, which were also divided into six sessions lasting 40 minutes. In both cases, weight and body shape is not changed. Meanwhile, after the sports people's perception of their own body has improved in several ways.
We have already studied the effects of exercise and found out how they affect the brain: in particular, they promote the release of endorphins, as evidenced by the picture below.
2. Sleep more, and you'll be less prone to negative emotions.
We all know that sleep helps our body to recover from the day's stress and that it helps us to be more focused and more productive. It turns out that sleep also affects our sense of happiness.
In the book «NutureShock» Po Bronson (Po Bronson) and Ashley Merriman (Ashley Merryman) explain exactly how sleep affects our positive attitude to life:
Negative stimuli are processed in the amygdala, and the positive and neutral memories are processed in the hippocampus. Lack of sleep is largely affects the hippocampus than in the amygdala. As a result, people who do not get enough sleep, at least remember the pleasant events and much more - about unpleasant.
In one of the experiments conducted by Walker, college students who regularly do not get enough sleep, they asked to remember the words from the list. They were able to remember 81% of the words with negative connotations - for example, the word cancer. However, they were able to remember only 31% of the words with a positive or neutral connotation, like sunshine or basket.
Publication of BPS Research Digest wrote about another study, which also shows that sleep affects our susceptibility to negative emotions. With the help of face recognition tasks, participants are asked to perform the experiment at different times of the day, scientists have tried to figure out how the subjects were influenced by positive and negative emotions. Those participants who had worked all day without a break for a short nap at the end of the day were more prone to negative emotions such as fear or anger.
With the jobs on face recognition, we have proved that those participants who were deprived of sleep a day, to a greater extent been subject to such emotions as anger and fear. Meanwhile, short naps blocked the negative reactivity, increasing the level of positive emotions.
Of course, for your well-being greatly influenced by the duration and quality of sleep.
The authors of another study tried to find out, as the morning mood of employees affects their work throughout the day:
Scientists have discovered that the morning mood of employees affects the productivity of their work throughout the day. The mood in which they came to work, influenced by their perception of the customer, as well as how they respond to the mood of customers.
Managers it is important to remember that the mood of their subordinates determines their performance, including the fact of how much work they can do and how well it is done.
First we have examined in detail the topic of sleep, trying to figure out how much sleep we need to do their jobs effectively.
3. Upgrade closer to the place of work: less long journey to work - it's better than a big house.
The trip to and from work that we do every day can have a very tangible impact on our sense of happiness. The fact that we make this way twice a day, five times a week, stipulates that its effects will accumulate over time and make us less and less happy.
As the site says The Art of Manliness, long way to go to work - this is something that can have a huge impact on our quality of life, although we often do not think about it.
While many casual circumstances do not affect our happiness in the long run, because we adapt to them, people will never get used to their daily tedious journey to work and back, because sometimes the movement is normal, and sometimes - just awful . Or, as Harvard psychologist named Daniel Gilbert (Daniel Gilbert), «to ride in traffic - every day a new kind of hell.
Often we try to compensate for the long way to work, buying a big house or agreeing to a higher paying job, but it still does not help.
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