BY BEING HAPPY AND CALM, YOU WILL BE HEALTHIER, GET LESS SICK AND HEAL FASTER

While the coronavirus pandemic is affecting people’s lives, we need to stay happy and
calm. We must take all the necessary precautions, but we must not become
panicked. We need our happiness and peace of mind now more than ever. Happy
and calm people have a stronger immune system. Our body is a strong self-healing
system. Our body heals itself and we have the best doctor, pharmacist and
pharmacy inside our brain and body. We must help this amazing self-healing brain
and body. We can help our immune system by the way think, feel, eat and
behave.
The Harvard Happiness Study, a longitudinal study of 268 Harvard students for 3
decades showed that happy people,

• Get less sick
• Recover faster
• Live longer

Stress affects our immune system. One study showed that patients with the
highest stress were six times more likely to get an infection with cold viruses than
those with lesser stress, and they had twice the likelihood of developing
symptoms.
We must think:

• Happy and positive thoughts
• Hopeful thoughts
• Peaceful thoughts
• Kind and loving thoughts

Some the ways that help us to stay happy and calm

• Be grateful, think about the things you have, not what is missing from your
  life.
• Meditate, 10-20 minutes a day. Simply sit somewhere quiet and
  comfortably and think about nothing, you can focus on your breathing
• Be mindful, do not become stressed over unimportant things, keep your
  emotional energy for the necessary and important things that you need to
  deal with. Focus on your happiness and the wellness of yourself and your
  family.
• Visit nature
• Be physically active
• Do deep breathing
• Use relaxation techniques such as yoga, stretching and gardening
• Get enough sleep (average 8 hours, 9-10 hours for adolescents)
• Listen to your favorite calming music
• Call people that you enjoy connecting with.
• Watch inspiring, cheerful and calming programs, movies

“There is no medicine like a cheerful thought for dissipating the ill of the body.”

– James Allen