How To Enhance Your Life - Dean Amory
Techniques for enhancing the quality of your life
Techniques for enhancing the quality of your life
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HAPPY PEOPLE HAVE ALL THE LUCK<br />
Happy people get far less attention than unhappy people.<br />
There is a mountain of research on depression and the many other thousands of ways that<br />
Psychology has categorized our misery. Only recently has the focus begun to turn to happiness.<br />
There are a number of benefits to being joyful. Research indicates that happy people seem to;<br />
1. Have a stronger immune system and therefore better health<br />
2. Live longer.<br />
3. Be more creative.<br />
4. Be more co-operative.<br />
5. Be more productive.<br />
6. Be more successful in their careers.<br />
7. Be liked more.<br />
8. Be judged as more attractive.<br />
9. Be more successful in relationships.<br />
10. Be better equipped to cope with adverse situations.<br />
11. Have a higher self-esteem.<br />
12. Believe they have more control over their lives.<br />
13. Be more optimistic.<br />
Beyond these research findings there may be other unproven benefits to being happy. I believe that<br />
it is happiness that gives us the fuel and the ability to do whatever it is that we want to do.<br />
We can want to do something. But when we want, while we are feeling low or powerless we<br />
cannot achieve anything. Emotional pain is like physical pain in the sense that it keeps directing<br />
our attention onto the thing that causes us pain.<br />
We become like a car stuck in mud. The more that we think, the more that we act all only serves to<br />
dig ourselves into a deeper rut.<br />
The deeper into the rut we get, the more helpless we become.<br />
Happy people are able to stay above any dips in the road. From this point we are able to see<br />
alternative paths and options. This gives us the power and ability to change our reality.<br />
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