The Art of Being Happy: Goals & Capabilities: Positive Thinking Book

By Kitty Corner

At the same time, researchers from Yale University say that, in fact, people who are not afraid of old age and who look at aging as at something natural, age, and die later than others. In scientists' opinion, good humor can extend human life by seven and even more years. And this also applies to people whose health is not perfect, in general. Such is the "magic" of good humor, the scientists say. It prolongs life, even for those who already have a whole bunch of diseases. These are causes of health dependence on patients' mood, which interest the doctors most of all. As provided that they understand how it works, scientists can simulate processes occurring in an optimist's body to treat pessimists. But there are only hypotheses here so far. According to one of them, optimists are more intent to take good care of themselves – eat smart, go in for sports, and avoid bad habits. This explains both their good mood and good health.

Everyone knows that being an optimist is right, and being a pessimist is wrong. But how often do we long for developing our way of positive thinking? I refer to the specific examples and show you only a few traits of a real optimist, which help him in stressful situations! In general, we always try to treat ourselves as people, not alien to positive thinking. We sigh and say, "Everything that happens for good," and spend many tears over our miserable lives. Or we think, "Time heals," and recall the happy moments, which cannot be returned, for the hundredth time. That is, we are not successful in becoming optimists. Meanwhile, it is positive thinking, which helps to survive in most circumstances, which seem to be harsh at first glance! So, let's Start!

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Denzil Darel
• Release date: Aug 4, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386443704

Kitty Corner

Consultant psychologist, psychotherapist. Specializations: individual and family counseling, work with trauma, complex emotional (anxiety, panic) states, psychosomatic symptoms, the personality of the individual crises, twin and family relations; group therapy. Activities: 1. single counseling adults: one-time consultation on request, a short-term (maintenance) and long term (effective) treatment. 2. Work with pairs: one-time consultation, long-term emotional and focused therapy. 3. Group work: group therapy in the dynamic treatment groups focus group sessions, workshops, seminars. Directions: - Development and strengthening of personal identity, increasing emotional awareness and self-esteem, develop practical skills of interpersonal communication; - Psychological support and support in difficult personal living conditions, development of competencies of emotional literacy and self-support; - Group dynamic therapy focused on solving a broad range of personal and social problems, the development and strengthening of self-awareness, self-confidence, improve the quality of life.

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Introduction

Optimism

Perception and thinking are the most powerful tools available to a human being. The right thought is a path to success and health and improving the quality of life. The future becomes a reality when a person starts implementing positive thinking. In other words, be optimists!

SCIENTISTS FROM DIFFERENT countries concluded that optimists live longer than pessimists; they have fewer diseases and feel the pain weaker. But how can this be explained? Why positive attitude strengthens our health? Hardly anybody would deny that physical activity and proper nutrition, arguably, take the first place among drug-free healing methods. But even if you can't stand diets and can't get along with sports very well, there still might be hope for your health! According to scientists, cheerful temper and a belief in a brighter future can strengthen your body and hold up the old age because optimism doesn't merely protect your nerves. Moreover, it increases the immune system, repels bacteria, and alleviates pain.

In one of their recent studies, the University of Pittsburgh scientists proved that people who don't focus on something and treat all of the life's troubles with a pure heart have three times fewer viral infections in comparison with pessimists and whiners. Doctors even experimented to confirm their theory: they infected groups of volunteers with a cold virus to assess the infection's body reaction. And optimists' immunity was much more resistant to the virus! It is widely known that the medicine has been acknowledging the influence of emotions on health for ages. But it meant mostly negative feelings. For example, stress has long been considered one of the reasons for gastric ulcer occurrence, and anger, a risk factor for cardiac patients. Now, positive emotions can receive a therapeutic status, as well.

At the same time, researchers from Yale University say that, in fact, people who are not afraid of old age and who look at aging as at something natural, age, and die later than others. In scientists' opinion, good humor can extend human life by seven and even more years. And this also applies to people whose health is not perfect, in general. Such is the magic of good humor, the scientists say. It prolongs life, even for those who already have a whole bunch of diseases. These are causes of health dependence on patients' mood, which interest the doctors most of all. As provided that they understand how it works, scientists can simulate processes occurring in an optimist's body to treat pessimists. But there are only hypotheses here so far. According to one of them, optimists are more intent to take good care of themselves – eat smart, go in for sports, and avoid bad habits. This explains both their good mood and good health.

According to another theory, optimists are protected by those hormones that form the thing we call a good mood (they either cause a sense of joy and hope or are produced independently under the influence of these emotions). Doctors have been associated with many such hormones with positive effects on general health conditions even earlier. For example, the happiness hormone serotonin has been considered a natural analgesic for a long time already. In contrast, the 'stress' hormone cortisol worsens painful symptoms and even accelerates the development of such diseases as AIDS. Researchers don't intend to finish the research. Perhaps a more detailed study of how our mood and temperament influences health will accelerate the development of new treatment methods and medicinal products. And what to say about scientific studies is that if everybody has been aware for a long time already, a patient's optimistic mood forms 50, even 100% of his treatment success!

EVERYONE KNOWS THAT being