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Why happiness is importance in our life?

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Happiness is not only that huge smile on your face. It is a sense of being, a conscious choice on how to live your life. Although we may sometimes neglect to cultivate our own happiness, feeling happy is important. If we are happy it has added knock on effects and benefits. These include us becoming more compassionate and feeling healthier both physically and emotionally. We become more creative, witty, energetic and fun to be around and it can also lead us to become more financially successful.

We will have partners, families, friends and work colleagues with whom we interact on a daily basis so if we are happy, then it is likely to mean that they feel happier too. Therefore, through our own happiness, we are actually giving something to other people too and enabling them to feel happy as well.

A research team from the Department of Economics of the University of Warwick validated the fact that happy people are more productive. Simply put, those employees who were given special treats like free comedy movie viewing, ice cream, chocolate and drinks showed a higher percentage of productivity versus those who were taken in and questioned about family issues, bereavement and similar topics.

If we take it into global level, it can make massive impact. For example, unhappiness is the core of all the breeding grounds of war and terrorist activity. Countries only attack other countries if they are feeling unhappy about certain realities and we are all only too aware how terrorist ideals come about as a result of their real or perceived injustice and unhappiness about various religious, social, political or economic realities.

The reason why happiness is so important is that it is extremely vital to our own goals in life and can help us achieve many other cherished personal ambitions and goals. Also, by being happy, we have the potential to change many other lives just by being ourselves.


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