Last night Melanie and I were navigating through our Tivo to kill some time while waiting for the kids to come in for the night while playing with all the neighborhood kids. We decided to watch a 20/20. They were doing the whole hour on the subject of the "Pursuit of Happiness". It really made me think.
It turns out that the frontal lobe of our brain can be monitored to tell if you're a happy person or not. That is if you have a propensity to think positively and lose your unhappiness or anger quickly or if you are more apt to dwell on negative and be generally discontented more often. The people studying this stuff also found that we have the power to manipulate this with thought and actions.
So, have you ever wondered why you might visit a church and everyone seems so happy that it almost doesn't seem real? Or that someone with an actually shitty job seems to be happy all the time. It turns out that the old sayings "think happy thoughts" and "count your blessings" actually work. Practicing these things on a regular basis will literally change the make-up of your frontal lobe and you will be happy. It's no coincidence that people with positive attitudes always seem happy even when things go wrong.
So the good news is you don't have to be an unhappy, crabby person. There's no excuse to be unhappy, so if you are, know that we know this, you must want to be. Good things happen to happy, optimistic people. Everyone should want to be someone who brightens the room not the one who brings a dark cloud into the building with them.
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4 comments:
How funny! I always wondered why I was still so happy when everything seemed to be going wrong for me. That is actually really cool, I guess you really do learn something new every day!
Hey, cool post. I actually used it as inspiration for a speech I had to do in my public speaking in class today. Thanks!
That post goes along pretty well with my last post. I want to look more into that research. See you at 5am with Justin, I am excited to see how you did with Zac's workout today....B
Hello, Troy....Thank you for sharing your great write-up on the secret of being happy. I might add that when we strive to make others happy, we lose ourself in that endeavor and become happy, too. Probably that is why Christmas gives us such a good feeling....all that shopping, baking, spending time and thoughts on others.The end result is a wonderful feeling of good cheer. We become happy.
How's the ant situation? I had a visit from a small group last week and had to spray....Then I pulled everything out of the cupboards and found their point of entry and sprayed that, as well. No further problem. Poor things. They don't bite us, they don't eat too much, they don't leave poop, still they don't make us happy! Ha, ha...See you soon, I hope.
Love,
Mama mia....
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