Dr. Gurley: Five Things to Do For Your Health in January
Studies have shown that gratitude exercises, such as heart-felt letters or journals, can have profound and lasting positive effects on your mood. Gratitude has been correlated with optimism, happiness and extroversion. A recent study even tried to quantify the effect that practicing gratitude has on happiness - and came up with an increase of 25%! (which begs the question - what is a quarter of happiness worth?). So get out those pens and write yourself happier this month.
5) Silly and joyous - with the economic downturn, it can feel ever harder to find and nurture your joy habit. But difficult conditions make it all the more important for you to find some joy whenever the opportunity strikes. January gives us lots of chances to open our hearts and cut loose a bit. You can celebrate any of these days this month - January 8 is Bubble Bath Day (sigh…), January 21 is Squirrel Appreciation Day, January 24 is Compliment Day, and my favorite, January 10 is Peculiar People Day (who, moi?). Over-achievers can, of course, pick any January day to relax in a bubble bath, watching the squirrels through the window - while composing compliments for all the wonderfully peculiar people in your life.
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