According to Albert Schweitzer - ‘Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory’. A recent study on aging by Pew Research Centre found the factors that predict happiness among younger adults are the same for older adults - namely good health, good friends and financial security. In a more light-hearted vein we have just discovered from the previous post today that happiness for Dr. O is driving a fast and fancy car! We’d love to hear what makes you happy and how you would define happiness.
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For a while now, I have been plagued with envy. I have come to realize that Jeremy Clarkson has my ideal job. For those of you reading this who have no idea who Clarkson is take a look at the BBC, and in particular ‘Top Gear’ where you will find Messer’s Clarkson, May, and Hammond routinely test driving all the most wonderful cars in the world. OK, so I admit it, I am one of those stereotypical males who just so happens to have an ongoing love affair with cars.
C’mon now, what’s not to love in an Aston Martin, Ferrari, or Porsche? Well I am not going to remain silent anymore, so I am starting a campaign to have Jeremy Clarkson removed from the show because of incompetence - (I may have to find a more appropriate reason later)! I ask for your support as I volunteer myself as his replacement. I just can’t wait to drive that McLaren
We spend much of our lives trying to “find ourselves” within the realms of what we know, but do we ever stop to consider that our identity may lie outside of our experience? Our identity serves to distinguish us from others but it also connects us to people who see themselves in the same way. Three people reveal how displaying their identity in an unexpected way has freed them to be who they really are. Is it possible that putting on a mask could allow someone to let their true self emerge? Watch the video now
Study shows the negative side to positive self-statements
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In times of doubt and uncertainty, many Americans turn to self-help books in search of encouragement, guidance and self-affirmation. The positive self-statements suggested in these books, such as “I am a lovable person” or “I will succeed,” are designed to lift a person’s low self-esteem and push them into positive action. According to a new study in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, however, these statements can actually have the opposite effect.
Psychologists Joanne V. Wood and John W. Lee from the University of Waterloo, and W.Q. Elaine Perunovic from the University of New Brunswick, found that individuals with low self-esteem actually felt worse about themselves after repeating positive self-statements. [click to continue…]
This piece of research has me worried! My husband can snore for England and causes me interupted slumber most nights. New research has found that women who get less than the recommended eight hours sleep a night are at higher risk of heart disease and heart-related problems than men with the same sleeping patterns.
Research by the University of Warwick and University College London has found that levels of inflammatory markers vary significantly with sleep duration in women, but not men.
In the current issue of TimeTiffany Sharples asks the question why do some teens behave recklessly? Is it as a new study published in the July issue of the journal Pediatrics would suggest because of the belief that they’re doomed to die young anyway?
In a long-term analysis of 20,594 American teens in grades 7 through 12, researchers interviewed the youngsters on three different occasions: first in 1995, again in 1996, then a final follow-up from 2000 to 2001. At the first interview, 1.4% of participants thought there was “almost no chance” that they’d reach their mid-30s; 2.4% thought it was possible, but hugely unlikely; and 10.9% believed they had only about a 50-50 shot of celebrating their 35th birthday. Researchers discovered that those who believed they were likely to die young were more likely to make potentially life-threatening choices — such as getting into violent fights or having unprotected sex with multiple partners — than teens who weren’t expecting an early death. Link to continue reading
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