Laughter and Tears

Happiness has a special role to play in creating better societies. There is clear scientific proof that happy people are generally healthier than unhappy people, due to certain key biological processes.

·         Those who use words like ‘joyful’ and ‘thankful’ to describe their lives, lived up to 10 years longer.

·         Happiness is associated with reduced neuroendocrine inflammatory and cardiovascular activity. There was a 32 percent difference in cortisol levels, between the happiest and the unhappiest.

·         Happy subjects showed lower responses to stress in plasma fibrinogen levels.

·         Happy subjects had low heart rates

Finding the causes and effects of that elusive thing called happiness has been notoriously difficult. Whatever brings you happiness, be it lots of money, respect from your peers, a large bar of chocolate or even a beautiful rose, it's hardly controversial to say that happy people are generally healthier than unhappy ones. That conclusion might be intuitively obvious, but just why are happy people healthier?

Find new reasons to laugh and plan ways to enjoy yourself. Cry when you have to and clean out toxic feelings and chemicals. Health and happiness will be your reward.