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2 Things That Lead to a Happy Life, Backed By Research!

Interesting. Where can I get more information on this? Maybe its time to convert. I already am a renowned false flagger, remember? :D :D :D


Or in hell to be exact! :D :D :D

Conversion is not part of our culture buddy.....You can adopt to these philosophy yet can remain a good Muslim... Emphasis must be upon inner evolution amongst us to overcome the misery of the world.... @levina

Another quote from Buddha

"Its better to conquer yourself than win a thousand battles. Then victory is yours, it cant be taken from you by angels or demons, heaven or hell"...

By Swami Vivekananda
We have seen how happiness is either in the body or in the mind, or in the Atman. With animals, and in the lowest of human beings, who are very much like animals, happiness is all in the body. No man can eat with the same pleasure as a famished dog, or a wolf; so, in the dog and the wolf the happiness is entirely in the body. In men we find a higher plane of happiness, that of thought, and in the Jnani there is the highest plane of happiness in the Self, the Atman. So to the philosopher this knowledge of the Self is of the highest utility, because it gives him the highest happiness possible. Sense gratification or physical things cannot be of the highest utility to him, because he does not find in them the same pleasure that he finds in knowledge itself; and after all, knowledge is the one goal, and is really the highest happiness we know.


From Bhagvad Geeta
Bhagwat Gita Blog - Its Life Philosophy: Peaceful Mind Is Key To Happiness
 
Death? Whatever happened to eternal? :D
There is nothing eternal than the human soul....

Hmmm...to me my happiness is not dependent on someone or something, also my bad memory is a boon in disguise, it helps in blocking memories of past. Lol


so true. :)

First sentence sums up yaar....

There is two beautiful lines in the song however the entire songs worth listening....

1) Barbadiyon ka shok manana fizul tha-2
manana fizul tha-3
Barbadiyon ka jashan manata chala gaya-2

2) Gham aur khushi mein farq na mehsoos ho jahan-2
na mehsoos ho jahan-2
Main dil ko us muqaam pe laata chala gaya-2


 
People actually get paid to write such generic advice....amazing.
 
2 Things That Lead to a Happy Life, Backed By Research

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Eric Barker writes Barking Up the Wrong Tree.

I’ve posted a number of times about two nearly-lifelong studies: the Terman Study (covered in The Longevity Project) and the Grant Study (covered in Triumphs of Experience.)

While different in some respects, both followed a sample of people from youth until death and provided insights into what makes for a happy life.

What two big ideas do they both strongly agree on?

1) A Happy Childhood Matters More Than You Think
The Grant Study found being happy when you’re old is tied to having had a warm childhood:

Vaillant concludes that a loving childhood is one of the best predictors of mid and late-life riches: “We found that contentment in the late seventies was not even suggestively associated with parental social class or even the man’s own income. What it was significantly associated with was warmth of childhood environment, and it was very significantly associated with a man’s closeness to his father.”

The Terman Study realized that “Parental divorce during childhood was the single strongest social predictor of early death.”

Via The Longevity Project: Surprising Discoveries for Health and Long Life from the Landmark Eight-Decade Study:

The long-term health effects of parental divorce were often devastating— it was indeed a risky circumstance that changed the pathways of many of the young Terman participants. Children from divorced families died almost five years earlier on average than children from intact families. Parental divorce, not parental death, was the risk. In fact, parental divorce during childhood was the single strongest social predictor of early death, many years into the future.

Sadly, our own childhoods are not something we can change, but this is something to keep in mind if you are or will be raising kids.

2) Relationships are the Most Important Thing
What was the Terman study’s most important recommendation for a longer life?

…connecting with and helping others is more important than obsessing over a rigorous exercise program.

Read that sentence again. It wasn’t receiving help from others, it was giving it:

Via The Longevity Project: Surprising Discoveries for Health and Long Life from the Landmark Eight-Decade Study:

We figured that if a Terman participant sincerely felt that he or she had friends and relatives to count on when having a hard time then that person would be healthier. Those who felt very loved and cared for, we predicted, would live the longest. Surprise: our prediction was wrong… Beyond social network size, the clearest benefit of social relationships came from helping others. Those who helped their friends and neighbors, advising and caring for others, tended to live to old age.

The Grant Study found that “the capacity to love and be loved was the single strength most clearly associated with subjective well-being at age eighty.”

Via Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being:

Vaillant’s insight came from his seminal work on the Grant Study, an almost seventy-year (and ongoing) longitudinal investigation of the developmental trajectories of Harvard College graduates. (This study is also referred to as the Harvard Study.) In a study led by Derek Isaacowitz, we found that the capacity to love and be loved was the single strength most clearly associated with subjective well-being at age eighty.

“Vaillant was asked, ‘What have you learned from the Grant Study men?’ Vaillant’s response: ‘That the only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people.‘”

Vaillant’s other main interest is the power of relationships. “It is social aptitude,” he writes, “not intellectual brilliance or parental social class, that leads to successful aging.” Warm connections are necessary—and if not found in a mother or father, they can come from siblings, uncles, friends, mentors. The men’s relationships at age 47, he found, predicted late-life adjustment better than any other variable, except defenses. Good sibling relationships seem especially powerful: 93 percent of the men who were thriving at age 65 had been close to a brother or sister when younger. In an interview in the March 2008 newsletter to the Grant Study subjects, Vaillant was asked, “What have you learned from the Grant Study men?” Vaillant’s response: “That the only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people.”

The Grant Study realized there was a single yes/no question that could predict whether someone would be alive and happy at age 80:

“Is there someone in your life whom you would feel comfortable phoning at four in the morning to tell your troubles to?”

Via Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being:

Is there someone in your life whom you would feel comfortable phoning at four in the morning to tell your troubles to? If your answer is yes, you will likely live longer than someone whose answer is no. For George Vaillant, the Harvard psychiatrist who discovered this fact, the master strength is the capacity to be loved.

More on the Terman study here. More on the Grant Study here.

This piece originally appeared on Barking Up the Wrong Tree.
Happiness: Childhood and Relationships Are Necessary for Happy Life

I couldn't resist sharing this open secret to eternal happy life: Live and Let Live! Its really that simple! :)


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I had the happiest childhood and the more I am reminded about it the more nostalgic I get and eventually sad....
koi lauta de mere beete huye din...
some shayar penned it painfully - yaad-e-maazi azaab hai ya rub, chheen le mujhse haafiza mera.
 
There is nothing eternal than the human soul....



First sentence sums up yaar....

There is two beautiful lines in the song however the entire songs worth listening....

1) Barbadiyon ka shok manana fizul tha-2
manana fizul tha-3
Barbadiyon ka jashan manata chala gaya-2

2) Gham aur khushi mein farq na mehsoos ho jahan-2
na mehsoos ho jahan-2
Main dil ko us muqaam pe laata chala gaya-2


I love that song. :)
The second sentence in my previous post meant that I've made peace with my past.
 
Conversion is not part of our culture buddy.....You can adopt to these philosophy yet can remain a good Muslim... Emphasis must be upon inner evolution amongst us to overcome the misery of the world.... @levina

"Its better to conquer yourself than win a thousand battles. Then victory is yours, it cant be taken from you by angels or demons, heaven or hell"...

This is the essence of "jihad".:-)
 
This is the essence of "jihad".:-)
Yeah I know about that ..... Unfortunately Jihad got different references now.... But to me more appropriate term would be "inner evolution" .....

The paragraph is one of the most beautiful that I have read ....

Some excerpts of a book called "if a truth to be told a monk" ..... @levina

"Sip by sip I enjoyed the sparkling water, its bubbles reminding me of the rush of the desire in human mind. They would continue to rise till the water turned flat, but this did not mean I had to drink hurriedly. Bubbles of ambitions n desires, of situations n circumstances, of thoughts n emotions keep emerging, but I still have the option of enjoying my drink one sip at Time at my own pace. These bubbles were good , they were even necessary. They were not to be loathed but enjoyed, for they had made the flat water sparkle in the first place"...
 
Key to "happiness" = dolla dolla bills yo!

And a good healthcare lol.

Also, "happiness" is people needing/wanting you more while you barely need them.
 

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