Health and Happiness
I’m curious how much of health is related to a person’s happiness. That is, how much of one’s mental health and health behaviors are related to a person’s happiness, sadness, loneliness, misery.
If people were happier, would they do fewer destructive things to their bodies? Overeat? Undereat? Exercise more? Smoke less? Drink less? Do fewer drugs? Have fewer negative or harmful thoughts?
How much of one’s health is related to self-image? If we had tighter communities, more social supports, more love and kindness in our lives, would we be healthier? I’m tempted to say yes.
along this line of thinking, I’m wondering if there’s a physiological root to ‘humor’. Does it exist physically in the body somehow? Is there some sort of gland that secreets …something that triggers… maintains… produces… a ’sense of’ humor? I’m thinking that one’s capacity, or ’sense’ for humor is linked to one’s happiness.