FEEL GOOD SCIENTIFIC FACTS

NEW STUDIES HAVE FOUND THAT LISTENING

TO MUSIC YOU REALLY LIKE MAKES YOU MORE

GENEROUS, ALTRUISTIC, AND UNDERSTANDING.

VARIOUS EXPERIMENTS HAVE SHOWN THAT CHIMPS

WILL HELP BOTH UNRELATED CHIMPS AND EVEN

HUMANS REACH AN OBJECT OUT OF THEIR GRASP

WHEN NO REWARD IS OFFERED. LOOKING FOR

UNCONDITIONAL LOVE ANYONE?

ACCORDING TO A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF

ASTRONOMERS AND SCIENTISTS, ALL THE

ELEMENTS REQUIRED FOR LIFE WERE FORMED

IN THE CORES OF STARS AND RELEASED INTO

THE UNIVERSE WHEN THE STARS EXPLODED.

IN OTHER WORDS, WE ARE ALL MADE OF STARDUST.

BY MAKING PLANS FOR YOUR FUTURE YOU

IMPROVE YOUR HAPPINESS EVEN IF YOU DON’T

ACCOMPLISH THE GOALS YOU SET. A STUDY

PUBLISHED IN THE JOURNAL APPLIED RESEARCH

IN QUALITY OF LIFE SHOWED THAT THE HIGHEST

SPIKE IN HAPPINESS OCCURRED, FOR EXAMPLE,

DURING THE PLANNING STAGE OF A HOLIDAY

AS PEOPLE ENJOY THE ANTICIPATION.

BEING IN LOVE CAN IMPROVE YOUR OVERALL

HEALTH. LOVE RELEASES OXYTOCIN WHICH IS

RESPONSIBLE FOR REGULATING BLOOD PRESSURE,

BODY TEMPERATURE, HEALING AND EVEN

RELIEF FROM PAIN.

CUDDLING IS REALLY GOOD FOR YOU! WHILE

CUDDLING, OXYTOCIN IS RELEASED WHICH, AS WE

MENTIONED IN THE PREVIOUS FACT,

HAS A HOST OF HEALTH BENEFITS.

IN A 2007 STUDY FROM ENGLAND’S UNIVERSITY OF

NOTTINGHAM, PROFESSOR IAN MACDONALD DISCOVERED

THAT PEOPLE WHO DRANK HOT COCOA AND ATE

CHOCOLATE EXPERIENCED A BOOST IN BLOOD FLOW

TO “KEY AREAS” OF THE BRAIN FOR TWO TO

THREE HOURS. IN ADDITION TO BOOSTING GENERAL

ALERTNESS, THIS MIGHT ALSO INCREASE PERFORMANCE

AT CERTAIN TASKS. WHO DOESN’T LOVE EATING

CHOCOLATE AND BECOMING SMARTER WHILE DOING IT?

A NEW STUDY LED BY A MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY

BUSINESS SCHOLAR SUGGESTS CUSTOMER-SERVICE

WORKERS WHO FAKE-SMILE THROUGHOUT THE DAY

WORSEN THEIR MOOD AND WITHDRAW FROM WORK,

AFFECTING PRODUCTIVITY. BUT WORKERS WHO SMILE

AS A RESULT OF CULTIVATING POSITIVE THOUGHTS

IMPROVE THEIR MOOD AND WITHDRAW LESS.