You are very happy? Beware, too much happiness can damage your health!
According to research from universities from three U.S. (Virginia, Illinois and Michigan) and published in the journal Scientific Perspectives on Psychological Science ", to achieve a good quality of life and succeed in the economic, social and relational should be" happy, but not too. According to this study because the people who experience a high degree of happiness are unwilling to act, because they fear losing the perfect balance they have created around him.
The study found that people who are happy in an 80 percentage-90% are more successful in every area of people who consider themselves happy at 100%. Are more likely to have good emotional ties, higher incomes, higher educations are more established in society. A surprising since this is added, the finding, perhaps even more surprisingly, affects only be too happy also on physical health.
The fact that a high mood to impact positively on the course of several diseases is a fact widely tested and established. The research certainly does not contradict this fact, but emphasizes how people are very happy to be conveyed to underestimate or ignore signs that may indicate the presence health problems. As explained by Ed Diener, a professor of psychology, including the authors of the study: "People are happy tend to be optimistic and underestimate the disease. This could lead to shrug off the symptoms, to slow the cure or not to follow doctors' orders to the letter. "
Too much happiness to people and then deprive not only the motivational need to grow as an individual and try to achieve better results but also lacking 'necessary attention to themselves and their state of health. Remains to be seen whether it is really this high number of people who see themselves happy at 100%. In any case, the results of the research were collected by Diener in a book out where you can find tips on how to be happy ... but not too much!