Researchers have discovered happiness is not solely dependent upon oneself, but is partly dependent on who we surround ourselves with. Hanging around with happy people as well as having a larger social connection is associated with being happier. It appears that happiness rubs off on others you're around and the more happy people you're around, the more likely you are to be happy and the happier you are. Researchers even went as far as to quantify happiness. According to their statistics, each happy person you have social contact with increases the odds of being happy by 15 percent. On the other hand, for each unhappy person you have social contact with your odds of being happy are reduced by 6 percent. Since happiness is associated with reduced mortality, reduced pain and improved cardiac function, it seems important to surround yourself with happy people!
Author:ChiroPlanet.com
Source:Reuters: December 5, 2008.
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3 years ago
2 comments:
I could have told you this without the study! Just think about how good you feel after game night!
This makes you want to be one of those "happy people" that people want to be around, eh? On a similar note though, there are many people with a lot of friends, but if they have 10,000 friends but none they no intimately and well, they find themselves even more isolated and alone. Beth Moore said (in the study we are doing) that our relationships are 10,000 miles wide and only and 1/8 of an inch deep. So true sometimes!
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