People generally say happiness have many health benefits. In your opinion, what are some ways happiness improves health outcomes? Is there a scientific logic to support this notion?
I am not sure of its scientific validity but some grey literature suggests that there are several means that connect happiness with health. Since stress and anxiety are major causes for high blood pressure or hypertension, stroke, heart disease, happiness reduces the risk for those conditions. Improved immune system and reduced impact of high pressure situations are also outcomes of general happy attitudes.
Dear Alaa Raheem Kazim and Sajda Taha Mahmood I greatly appreciate your participation and contributions.
Happiness gives better health:
Scientific studies have shown that happiness has a positive effect on physical health, which helps to strengthen the heart muscle. This prevents heart attacks, facilitates metabolism, avoids insomnia, strengthens the body's immunity and improves the appearance of the skin.
. Happiness addresses mental disorders:
One of the benefits of happiness is that it improves the mood of the person and gives him a large positive energy that can get rid of tension, anxiety and depression, and happiness helps calm nerves and muscles, which helps to get rid of mental disorders and symptoms.
Yes, you are so right about better mental health due to happiness. Alaa Raheem Kazim .
Happiness lengthens life by lowering the risk of heart disease. Please take a look at the following RG links and PDF attachment.
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Staying happy attracts a lot of health benefits. Among them are:
Happiness protects your heart. Happiness strengthens your immune system.
Happiness combats stress. Happy people have fewer aches and pains.
Happiness combats disease and disability.
One of the health benefits of happiness is happiness itself. Happiness is a state of well-being and health is also a state of well-being. It is only a healthy person that can be happy. It is difficult, if not impossible, to separate happiness from good health.
Being happy makes you comfortable and enjoying life in all its aspects.
A study conducted on a series of people showed that 44 percent of those who feel happy are eating healthy and fresh fruits. In the same study, they found that 33% of the subjects were more optimistic than others and had 10 hours of physical activity a week, which would increase energy levels, reduce body fat, lower blood pressure and bone tightness.
Being happy promotes a healthy lifestyle. It may also help combat stress, boost your immune system, protect your heart and reduce pain. It may even increase your life expectancy.
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When you are happy, oxygen enters the body and here all the health benefits begin
“In a 2003 experiment, 350 adults volunteered to get exposed to the common cold. Before exposure, researchers called them six times in two weeks and asked how much they had experienced nine positive emotions—such as feeling energetic, pleased, and calm—that day. After five days in quarantine, the participants with the most positive emotions were less likely to have developed a cold.”
(Kira M. Newman, 2015)
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/six_ways_happiness_is_good_for_your_health
happiness benefits should be known to man to seek and ask .. Happiness is an expensive commodity: 1. Happiness gives a person psychological comfort and self acceptance. 2. Happiness interferes with family, pleasure, spirit and tranquility. 3. Happiness Raises children on the nature of positive life. 4. Happiness helps a person to pay attention to the lofty goals rather than being preoccupied with self and body. 5. Happiness gives the body a great harmony, which makes the various organs of the body function and perfect. 6. Happiness gives the person the opportunity to be creative and inventor. 7. Happiness gives the community the joy of vengeance and produces.
Dear Dr. Gulzar Shah,
Some health benefits of happiness:
Happiness protects our hearts, it predicts lower heart rate and blood pressure,
Happiness strengthens our immune systems and Happiness combats stress.
Also, happiness decreases pain, it was found that positive emotion mitigates pain in the context of disease. Happiness also, combats disease and disability and lengthens our lives.
Please see the attached links:
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/six_ways_happiness_is_good_for_your_health
https://www.sharecare.com/health/happiness/article/health-benefits-of-happiness
Nice question, fine answers. Good health is promoted on different ways(food, work out...) as reason to be happy. The two things are conected both ways.
Happiness is good for your health. Other studies have shown that it predicts lower heart rate and blood pressure. It combats stress, boosts your immune system, and protects you from aches and pains. In the meantime, if you need some extra motivation to get happier, check out these six ways that happiness has been linked to good health.
Happiness protects your heart. ...
Happiness strengthens your immune system. ...
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Happiness combats disease and disability.
Positive thinking helps with stress management and can even improve your health. Indeed, some studies show that personality traits such as optimism and pessimism can affect many areas of your health and well-being. The positive thinking that usually comes with optimism is a key part of effective stress management. It found that the things that are most important for happiness, and subsequently misery, are mental and physical health and social relationships. This suggests that more needs to be done to help those suffering from health issues and loneliness in order to improve their wellbeing and quality of life.
It affects your heart rate, your body chemistry, and it could contribute to substantial physical health benefits over time. For years, research has shown that reducing depression, stress, anxiety, and other negative states decreases the risk of heart disease and other maladies. Being happy may help reduce stress levels (20, 21). Normally, excess stress causes an increase in levels of cortisol, a hormone that contributes to many of the harmful effects of stress, including disturbed sleep, weight gain, type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure.
Studies show that there is a darker side to feeling good and that the pursuit of happiness can sometimes make you well, less happy. Too much cheerfulness can make you gullible, selfish, less successful — and that's only the tip of the iceberg. Happiness does have benefits (beyond feeling good, of course). Happiness is a broad term that describes the experience of positive emotions, such as joy, contentment and satisfaction. Emerging research shows that being happier doesn't just make you feel better — it actually brings a host of potential health benefits.
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Happiness feeling is very beneficial for our physical and mental health as it permits combating stress, pains, heart disease, and disability. It lengthens our lives and constitutes a real source of motivation to achieve our goals
Happiness mess with hormones in our brains :) Serotonin
We can be happy and regulate them or sad and depressed due to their deficiency.
Although , happiness is a fleeting emotion is what people say ...
It is quite true that happiness has a positive effect on human health through a physiological process related to hormones. Indeed, this phenomenon is particularly related to the presence in the body of certain types of hormones, neurotransmitters or endorphins. These substances intervene in the regulation of the mood which favor the feeling of well-being. They protect us against certain risk factors, in particular stress which is the generator of cardiovascular and other pathologies.
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Happiness gives mental strength and positive attitude towards life making a person free from any kind of disease or disorder.
Happiness, a different feeling among humans, may be a kind of self-satisfaction and internal balance, so it leads to more mental and physical health
Happiness is a great feeling, useful for your health. Happy, optimistic people are healthier than the miserable and the pessimistic
Happiness is positively reflected on heart health, on metabolism, and helps to sleep comfortably.
A sense of happiness permanently strengthens the body's immunity and resistance to diseases
The benefits of happiness on the health of the body are also filled with positive energy and enthusiasm, which increases your activity and your productive ability.
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/happiness-and-health
Boost the Immune System
Combat Stress
Protect Your Heart
Lengthen Your Life Expectancy
Help Reduce Pain
Other Ways Being Happy May Make You Healthier
Happiness has a great impact on the mental and physical health of humans, as it reduces the symptoms of depression, sadness, and tension, and protects the immune system from these symptoms. Did you know that there is a day of happiness celebrated by the world (March 19 of each year)?
Difficult to achieve overall agreement on:
1. What is happiness?
2. Where are the areas of agreement and disagreement on what happiness is and is not?
3. What areas of happiness can be quantitative?
Of course, the more the individual enjoys psychological and physical stability and emotional warmth, he enjoys health. The most important causes of diabetes and blood pressure are problems in our lives. Most patients were not happy in their community or even with their families.
The unhappiness produces free roots, which are the basis of cancer. Happiness produces hormones that protect your health. Therefore, be happy to avoid the accident
As is well documented emotions can cause psychosomatic issues. Thus when someone experiences excessive anxiety and feels distressed that person may somatize these as bodily symptoms including headache, stomach ache, etc. In a similar vein someone experiencing happiness would also transmit these positive feelings into their body thus feeling calm and healthy. Feeling of happiness can also be a stress inoculator. It also helps the person think clearly and act more rationally in terms of theri decisions
So it seems happiness is the least expensive remedy for health. Thank you dear colleagues for participating in this discussion.
Happiness needs a life of organization, honest and helping people are happy and friends are also happy
Happiness is stress reliever. That in turn prevents cardiovascular diseases.
Positive emotions — curiosity, love, joy, contentment, wonder, excitement — expand your focus of attention. When you’re angry, your focus narrows to the source of your frustration and the object of your wrath. Your mind is like a heat-seeking missile, bent on destruction.
Happiness improves your ability to problem solve.
Of course, the more the individual enjoys psychological and physical stability and emotional warmth, he enjoys health. The most important causes of diabetes and blood pressure are problems in our lives. Most patients were not happy in their community or even with their families.
I greatly appreciate your thoughts and insights, thank you Abderrahim Benkhaled , Praveen N M , M. A. A. Al- Fatlawi , Srini Vasan , Luay Abdulwahid Shihab .
Happiness will help metabolism of your body that will result good health.
Happiness is good for my heart and my soul. That feeling really suits me well... I enjoy it.
here is a special hormone secreted from the nerve endings of the nervous system of the human in the sense of happiness is called the hormone Ephedrine hormone or hormone of happiness.
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, thank you for your contributions to this discussion string.
Of course I agree with most of the answers. I'm sure there should be a strand of literature supporting the positive correlation between happiness and health, but I do not know it. If I should provide a scientific contribution to this topic, I think I would apply some parameters related to Quality of life on a sample of people who declare to be happy and would compare it with a control.
Some possible parameters are Euro-Qol 5D https://euroqol.org/eq-5d-instruments/; or WHOQOL-brefhttps://www.who.int/substance_abuse/research_tools/whoqolbref/en/
Dear colleagues, thank you for sharing your insights, Elenka Brenna Nour Shakir
Mahesh Kumar , Zainab A Makawi , Redha TaiarNirmala S.V.S.G
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Being happy:
1. May help promote a healthy lifestyle. Studies show that happier people are more likely to eat healthier diets and engage in physical activity.
2.May help keep your immune system strong, which might help you fight off the common cold and chest infections.
3.May help reduce stress levels
4.May protect the heart by reducing blood pressure, a major risk factor for heart disease.
5. May Lengthen Your Life Expectancy.
6.May reduce the perception of pain. It appears to be particularly effective in chronic pain conditions such as arthritis.
References in the following link :
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/happiness-and-health#section6 .
Thank you dear colleagues for your participation in this discussion, Arben J Salihu
, Seher Almedeny .
Hello, happiness is everything and it really can be magic in healing.
Happiness spread love among individuals... when you are happy your entourage is happy as well.... giving hope and inspiration to your family, friends or even strangers remove stress from your life leading to a healthier lifestyle...
Happiness is a period of serenity in your life. It is an overall satisfaction with the life around you, with your professional achievements or current progress. It is the absence of any serious disease, absence of social troubles. Unhappy mind is full of concern and thoughts of 'how to...' (how to overcome with troubles, how to unravel difficult situations. etc.). So, going from the opposite site, 'unhappiness' is extremely harmful for the man in all aspects of his life (health, career, family).
less stress and if then more positive to deal with, less anger and less dangerous hormones, less frustration, less aggression, better sleep, and about 1,000 more advantages of happiness that have direct positive impacts on health.....
Without a doubt, happiness has several benefits, including but not limited to, having a stronger immune system, feeling physically, mentally, socially, and emotionally healthier, and attaining better coping with stress and trauma. I have read a document that deals with, the how, what, when, and why of happiness. Attached here, please find that document for your reading.
Hope this helps,
Cheers
.Lyubomirsky, S. (2008). The how of happiness: A scientific approach to getting the life you want: Penguin.
It keeps blood circulations regular and reduces the risk of heart disease.
Thank you colleagues for your insights and opinions, Sudip Saha , Tefera Tadesse , Eberhard Weber , Paula Romanos , Nirmala S.V.S.G
, Polina Lemenkova , Pankaj Tomar , Eberhard Weber . Tefera Tadesse
In our Work / Life Balance :
Happiness gives us the joy in what we do, leading to more enjoyable achievements, and looking forward to further progress!
The benefits of happiness include higher income and superior work outcomes (for example, greater productivity, higher quality of work, greater occupational attainment), larger social rewards (such as more satisfying and longer marriages, more friends, stronger social support, and richer social interactions)
Is this a somewhat healthcare giver-biased question? Shouldn't the question rather be, "what are the happiness benefits of health?" Which is the end and which is the mean? Or maybe, which one is the deeper end or higher value?
It relaxes the body, thus allowing for a smooth blood circulation.
With this identity of health I feel ''Health is Wealth & in this respect I have submitted my presentation some time back which i submit herewith for your perusal
Health is wealth & our entry on this earth is a gift of our creator & as such we should take every care by keeping control of mind ,our habits , including our food & also for avoiding of our sensible approach . It is in this line I have my publication under the captioned'' Health is Wealth '' which I submit herewith for your perusal for receiving your valuable opinion
Thanks
Dear colleagues thank you for sharing your insights and advancing this debate. Mala Babagana Gutti , Sudip Saha , Rohit Manilal Parikh , Segun Michael Abegunde , Fares F. Fares , Abderrahim Benkhaled , D.B. Jani
Happiness relaxes certain muscles/tissues of human body or reduces stress. Happiness is an outcome of stress management. stress damages some vital organs of human body and is one of the causes diseases like diabetes, hypertension etc.
Thank you Ghazala Qaiser and all other colleagues for your valuable contributions to this discussion.
In a cross-sectional study: Happiness scores were associated with less advanced stages of habitual cigarette smoking among Adolescents. This is another indirect health benefit for the happier people !
Ref:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5968204/
Health can not be separated from happiness they complement each other
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