Happiness or Loneliness
Award Winning Animator, Steve Cutts, illustrates most graphically, how our society through materialistic madness, has affected our society, in his film, ‘Happiness’.
In 2011, I looked at the other people in an office I shared, and observed their descent into a kind of self-destructive madness – all having to accept staff reduction policies and then, pay freezes, whilst saying ‘yes’ to heavier workloads with no opportunity of successfully managing, leading to stress and upset over not being able to do their work to the ability they knew they could achieve under other circumstances.
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Harvard’s Famous Study on Happiness Might Surprise You
Investment in social relationships is more predictive of future health than things like genetics, social class, and education. Learn how to establish community for your long-term happiness.
The research suggests that tending to your relationships is an important form of self-care, just as vital as taking care of your body. These are some of the most interesting highlights of the study:
- Close ties help delay mental and physical decline, and contribute more to happiness than money, fame, social class, IQ, and genetics.
- Relationship satisfaction is a better indicator of how people will grow old than their middle-age cholesterol level.
- People with a strong sense of community benefit from better memory function. Empathy and attachment are key to healthy aging.
- Loneliness can be as powerful a negative influence on health as smoking or alcoholism.
Read the original full article here.
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