ENG 101
Dr. McCormick
12/1/10
How can Happiness increase our health ? Happiness plays a key role when it comes down to our health. Taking care of our health is very important to us. There areseveral ways that we can improve our health. To begin Laughing is a very good way to benefit our health. Laughing can help treat certain illnesses. Another way is for us to be happy while confronts depression, being depressed can seriously effect our health and cause problems. In my paper I will discuss the steps of how happiness willcreate positive effects towards our health.
Laughing is a very good way to increase our health. Many of us when we are upset, or frustrated about something and not sure what or how to handle it. One of the best things to do during a situation like this is to laugh. They say laughing is the best medicine. Many people out their in the world don’t even know how to laugh and also do not realize how it can help them. For an example we are experiencing a rough day at work or school, we feel disappointed or stressed out about something. Laughing can help change out mood of thinking and gives us a sign of relieve and feel much better right after. Another example we all have a cold and feel horrible and miserable. One way to feel better is to just laugh, as a result you feel a lot better and a little bit more relieved from the cold afterwards. Laugh for no reason at all. Laughter also has been said to have help cured certain illness’s. A doctor named Lee Burk in 2001 states that “mirthful laughing increases the productions of natural killer cells, which help the body fight viral infections and cancerous growths”(85). The kinds of illness that happiness can help fight against is heart disease, diabetes and allergies. Another thing that laughter can do is expand your life span. If you laugh more often you are increasing your chances of living longer. Not only yourself but if we were to laugh all together we would all be helping each other becoming healthier. Khatchadourian was the one to promote what’s called laughing yoga. In these kind of exercise it was proven that it was effective.As one of the trainee’s stated “Laughter connects you with people.” and another traineeSaid “it reduces stress.” (79)
Being happy can help fight depression. In todays world one of the worst things to have is depression. Depression is a very hard mood to deal with and it is a struggle to survive while in this mood. To begin one of the ways to fight depression is to convert negative emotions into happy ones, to think happy emotions. For example you go to school and given a large amount of homework assighments and projects from your classes that are overwhelming. One way we could fix this kind of problem is to have hope, believe in yourself, and have self cofidence. After doing that you will be able to finish your classes and then be able to graduate earning yout degree in the career that youdesire. Another way to fight depression is confronting it with a pyscologist or a family member or friend. A great way to fight depression is finding what it is they makes you happy. The idea is to search for it, to see what motivates you as a person. If you cannot happy then you cannot live a life without a good reason. Simplie being happy can lead to a better life and healtier one.
Being depressed can have a very harmful effect towards your health.To be depressed constantly causes massive problems. At the same time you are not ableto live a decent life because your health becoming is worse and worse making you weaker. One of the most dangerous effects of being depressed is that it can cause heart failure. While being depressed it can lead not only to negative emotions but also to negative actions, such as alcohol and drug abuse. When people are engaged in this kind of abuse not only are they damaging their health but the health of others because they are worrying about their love ones and friends. Another example someone could be wanting to finish college but as a result fails to even get close to receiving the degree because they did not pass certain courses to graduate. The reason for this happening is because that person did not try to be happy or make an effort too therefore causing the reason to fail the goal of getting a degree in college. Being depressed not only effects your health but the environment around you, such as where you work. You can get fired for just even being depressed all the time and the reason is because your boss doesn’t want a employor that is negative and cannot be relied to do the work. Yet another example that depression effects you socially around your family and friends. Being depressed all the time they will become tired of it because it makes them unconfortable and as a result you are making them depressed. In an article by Barbaera Ehrenriech it states “ninety-nine out of Every 100 people report that they want to be around more positive people”(72).
Is happiness the answer to all of our problems? Not always however it is the answer toliving a better and happier life. Laughing is one of the best medecines in the world andit gives us a sign of relieve and makes us feel a lot better afterwards. Being happy helpsfight depression. Being happy helps us to fight illness’s and live longer lifes. Being depressed effects our health and is a threat to our life. It can cause a number of problems. Overall Being happy is the best thing we can experience, it is the most important thing to our lifes.
Pathologies of hope. Barbera Ehrenreich. Harpers magazine 1 2007. Raffi Khatchadourian, Happiness. The laughing Guru.
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