Happiness Every Day - 365 daily happy tips (Islamic book)

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Don’t convince yourself that some sacrifice today is worth the hope of happiness in the future. It’s a fool’s game. You can have them both if you want. Excess stress causes higher levels of cortisol – the stress hormone – which can lead to a number of health conditions. Multiple studies have found that individuals who are happier have consistently lower cortisol levels in their blood (Smyth et al, 1998, Davydov et al, 2005, Steptoe et al 2008). 3. A Stronger Immune System Carstensen, L. L., Turan, B., Schiebe, S., Ram, N., Ersner-Hershfield, H., Samanez-Larkin, G. R., Brooks, K. P., & Nesselroad, J. R. (2011). Emotional experience improves with age: evidence based on over 10 years of experience sampling. Retrieved from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20973600 Just be sure you choose carefully. Know who you enjoy being around, who brings you up, and who encourages positivity. Anyone who doesn’t fit this bill is not worth your time, ever. It amazes me how many people continue to spend time around negative people who bring them down. Life’s too short. Choose wisely. 8. Be selfless. The holidays can be a stressful time, even for the happiest among us – an estimated 44% of women and 31% of men get the “holiday blues.”

Olivola, C. Y., & Shafir, E. (2013). The martyrdom effect: When pain and effort increase prosocial contributions. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 26(1), 91–105. Bolger, N., & Laurenceau, J. P. (2013). Intensive longitudinal methods: An introduction to diary and experience sampling research. Guilford Press. By training our brain through awareness and exercises to think in a happier, more optimistic, and more resilient way, we can effectively train our brains for happiness.Some research has indicated that being happier can support a strong immune system, leading to greater health all round, and the ability to fight infections or disease more effectively (Stone et al, 1987, Cohen et al, 2003, Marsland et al, 2006). 4. Overall Healthier Lifestyle In general, happiness is understood as the positive emotions we have in regards to the pleasurable activities we take part in through our daily lives. Research shows that feeling happier is beneficial for our health, but not if forcing yourself to be happy or seek out happiness ends up causing you more stress. Campos, D., Cebolla, A., Quero, S., Breton-Lopez, J., Botella, C., Soler, J., Garcia-Campayo, J., Demarzo, M., & Banos, R. M. (2016). Meditation and happiness: Mindfulness and self-compassion may mediate the meditation–happiness relationship. Retrieved from: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886915005450

Pursuing happiness through social means (e.g., spending more time with family and friends) is more likely to be effective than other methods (Rohrer et al., 2018). Penner, L. A., Dovidio, J. F., Piliavin, J. A., & Schroeder, D. A. (2005). Prosocial behavior: Multilevel perspectives. Annual Review of Psychology, 56, 365–392. Lee MA, Kawachi I. The keys to happiness: Associations between personal values regarding core life domains and happiness in South Korea. PLoS One. 2019;14(1):e0209821. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0209821 Sin, N. L, Moskowitz, J. T., & Whooley, m. A. (2015). Positive Affect and Health Behaviors Across 5 Years in Patients With Coronary Heart Disease: The Heart and Soul Study. Retrieved from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26428445 Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.One measure of daily meaning involved participants indicating their level of meaningful experiences each day. Participants responded to the question “ Overall, how meaningful were your experiences today?” on a 5-point scale (0 = not at all meaningful; 4 = A great deal meaningful). 5.2.3 Meaning Measure 2: Life Engagement Using Veenhoven’s Four Qualities it is possible to assess the happiness of any country. Liveability of environment Hui, B. P., & Kogan, A. (2018). Daily ups and downs: An event-sampling study of the mediated moderation of prosocial engagement on well-being. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 9(6), 675–688. It’s easy to confuse success with happiness, and many people strive for professional goals (money or job titles) only to achieve them and realize it doesn’t provide them with the sense of happiness they were hoping for.