Sometimes happiness is absolute: you land your dream job or the perfect girl. You’re psyched. But sometimes the situation isn’t so clear cut: you got the job you wanted, but not at the salary you’d hoped. Still happy?
A new study suggests that, yes, win or lose, people tend to be happy — but for “losers,” it takes some extra mental effort to get there.
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“When you win something, it’s always a positive experience,” lead researcher Karim S. Kassam, an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon and the lead author of the study, said in a statement. “But if there’s this tinge of negative effect, that motivates people to rationalize, to re-frame things in a way that will make them happy.”
http://healthland.time.com/2011/04/07/how-to-think-yourself-into-a-happy-place/
Karim is an Assistant Professor of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. He obtained a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Harvard University in 2010. His research interests include emotion, with special interest in emotion and decision making, physiology of emotion, and facial expressions.
via http://wendyberrymendes.com/cms/emotion-health-and-psychophysiology.
Ismailimail 
Love it! You especially need to write little clips in these times.Smiling –even if it’s fake–truly (and perhaps you can comment) changes the neurotransmitters and closing your eyes increases calming brain ways…
Good work!
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Impressive !!
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