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Simple tips to boost happiness

Good morning friends. There are simple tips to boost our happiness. I want to share it with you, as I know you will need it for our day to day life. First of all happiness can be self-controlled and boosted through certain practices, claim researchers. Some scientists had suggested happiness is primarily determined by genetics, health and other factors mostly outside of our control. Do you think its possible to become happier?

In spite of the finding that happiness is partially genetically firmed, and despite the finding that life situations have a smaller influence on our happiness than we think they do, we argue that still a large portion of happiness is in our power to change.

There are test attempts to increase happiness, Psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky of the University of California, Riverside, has jotted down five things that can improve happiness:

1. Be grateful - Some study participants were asked to write letters of gratitude to people who had helped them in some way. The study found that these people reported a lasting increase in happiness - over weeks and even months - after implementing the habit.

2. Be optimistic - Study participants were asked to visualize an ideal future - for example, living with a loving and supportive partner, or finding a job that was fulfilling - and describe the image in a journal entry. After doing this for a few weeks, these people too reported increased feelings of well-being.

3. Count your blessings - People who practice writing down three good things that have happened to them every week show significant boosts in happiness, studies have found. It seems the act of focusing on the positive helps people remember reasons to be glad.

4. Use your strengths - Another study asked people to identify their greatest strengths, and then to try to use these strengths in new ways. For example, someone who says they have a good sense of humor could try telling jokes to lighten up business meetings or cheer up sad friends. This habit, too, seems to heighten happiness.

5. Commit acts of kindness - Helping others also helps ourselves. People who donate time or money to charity, or who altruistically assist people in need, report improvements in their own happiness.

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Less small talk makes for a happy life

Good morning friends Most people wanted to talk a lot specially when discussing things. But some people want to talk less. They said that less small talk makes for a happy life … Do you believe in that thing?

American research has found that people who engage in more deep conversations are likely to be happier than those indulging in small talk.

For the study, participants were asked to wear an unobtrusive recording device called the Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR) over four days. This device periodically records snippets of sounds as participants go about their lives. For this experiment, the EAR sampled 30 seconds of sounds every 12.5 minutes yielding a total of more than 20,000 recordings. The scientists then listened to the recordings and identified the conversations as trivial small talk or substantive discussions. Also, the volunteers completed personality and well-being assessments.

The analysis of the recordings told some very interesting findings. Greater well-being was associated with spending less time alone and more time talking to others: The happiest participants spent 25 per cent less time alone and 70 per cent more time talking than the unhappiest participants. Furthermore, the happiest participants had twice as many substantive conversations and one third as much small talk as the unhappiest participants.

The researchers conclude that deep conversations may have the potential to make people happier. They say: "Just as self-disclosure can instill a sense of intimacy in a relationship, deep conversations may instill a sense of meaning in the interaction partners."

Smile genuinely to live longer

Good morning friends. How often do you smile? If you’re are going to smile, do you think it has to be a good reason for you to smile? If you want to live longer, one way is to smile. Smile genuinely. That’s what they said. Many said that the secret to live a grand old age is to smile, and make sure you mean it.

There is one pro baseball players in the 1950s who genuinely beamed in their official photographs tended to live longer than more sullen-looking sportsmen and those who put on fake smiles. There are players from the US major league with honest grins lived an average of seven years longer than players who didn't smile for the camera and five years longer than players who smiled unconvincingly.

Happy people tend to be healthy too. Some researchers wondered if this relationship would be reflected in the smiles and longevity. Genuine smiles are known as Duchenne smiles after the 19th-century neurologist who defined them in detail. They engage muscles both near the corners of the mouth and around the eyes - the zygomatic major and the orbicularis oculi respectively. Fake, ‘non-Duchenne’ smiles exercise only mouth muscles.

With training, these muscles are easy to recognize in photographs. Thus, the researchers were trained to analyze smiles, looked at vintage photographs of 230 major leaguers who played in the 1952 season. The researchers classified them as non-smilers, Duchenne smilers or non-Duchenne smilers. Then they looked up the life spans of some players who had already died. They found that out of the dead players, Duchenne smilers had tended to live the longest, followed by non-Duchenne smilers.

The researchers also tend to predispose people to longevity, such as a university education and good health. They found an even firmer link between strength of smile and length of life. People who didn't smile had just a 50% chance of surviving to 80%, all other things being equal, whereas those with Duchenne smiles had about a 70% chance of surviving to this age.

Overall, 35% of the differences in lifespan correlated with smile intensity. Some conclude that people who smile genuinely in photographs "may be basically happier than those with less intense smiles", making them more likely to experience the health benefits of happiness, which has been linked with lower levels of stress hormones and a protein implicated in heart disease.

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