Reading Time: 2 minutes“Energy” is the body’s electricity. Like the wiring in your house, the energy circuits in your body need to be clear of short-circuits to flow. In your desire for energy, you may consume drinks, power bars, magazines, videos, or exercises – but beware of “false energy,” which can harm you even on the cellular level. […]
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Reading Time: 2 minutesExercise Exercise promotes health and the natural flow of energy. It helps you fight stress by augmenting your strength, vigour, flexibility and overall hardiness. It relieves depression and insomnia, and boosts your immune function. It is essential to healthy aging, because it keeps your body agile and enhances brain function. Be sure to breathe deeply
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Reading Time: 2 minutesMany people become desensitized to chronic stress because they are so accustomed to it. If this is your pattern, consciously establish new behaviours. Prepare yourself for stress, so when it crops up, you have a new set of tools to use to work on it. “Every thought or emotion you experience has electrical energy and
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Reading Time: 2 minutesComparing rates of happiness across countries can be tricky, given cultural, economic and social differences that testing may not capture. However, while some “outliers” defy the idea that wealthier nations are happier – Nigeria is very happy; Japan, not so much – other factors, such as age, marriage and jobs, regularly show up in happiness
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Reading Time: 2 minutesEconomics may be a great science for understanding numbers, but it does a poor job of predicting wellbeing. “When income exceeds a certain threshold, it no longer brings more happiness,” according to the “Easterlin paradox.” Within a country, the rich are generally happier than the poor, but that’s not true over time or in comparisons
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Reading Time: 2 minutesHealth and Happiness Worldwide, health is the major variable that influences joy, even more than money. Contented people are healthier, and healthy people are more content. In the developed nations of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), the higher the blood pressure, the lower the happiness level, and vice versa, indicating a “virtuous
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Reading Time: 2 minutesHappiness matters greatly in both philosophy and economics. Aristotle said that happiness is the supreme good, the end to which everything else is a means. However, he defined happiness quite differently than economists do today. In Aristotle’s view, happiness was not a matter of pleasure but a matter of morality. The moral person was happy.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesHappiness is a foundation stone of economic science. People make economic choices – what salary to accept, what product to buy, whether to invest – in order to become happy. The pursuit of happiness clearly matters in economics, even though economists usually speak of it in jargon, substituting such words as “utility” for “happiness.” The
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Reading Time: 2 minutes“The single biggest threat to our own well-being tends to be ourselves.” Do you experience a strong sense of well-being every day? Such contentment depends on more than just financial security, physical health or some other beneficial attribute. If you work to improve in one or two areas, but ignore the others, you will not
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Reading Time: 2 minutes“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough” (Mae West). Younger generations embrace a way of life often called “YOLO,” for “You only live once.” Yet we need to find a way, as an individual, to build a personal life based on mindfulness and vision in order to live productively
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