HAPPINESS

If you are happy, you will live longer. No one ever said, “She was so happy, she just up and died. Poor thing, just couldn’t take all that happiness.”

Hospitals these days have departments dedicated to elevating happiness in sick patients and their families: Social Services and faithbased counseling. Sensation of impending happiness is helpful. Happiness has a positive hormonal effect that bolsters the spirit and helps heal the body. Both are good things. Give us more of both, say I.

Clearly, the more pleasing and supportive things are in your life, the greater your chances of a better future, regardless of your present situation.

A practicing psychologist friend of mine spends more time on the orthopedic ward than the psychiatric ward. Even though orthopedic problems are surgically managed, the thought processes are not. Can’t you just hear the psychologist’s secretary