The negative Impact of not being Happy

By Leow Chee Seng

What is Happiness?

• Happiness is a state of mind or feeling characterized by contentment, love, satisfaction, pleasure, or joy.

• A variety of philosophical, religious, psychological and biological approaches have striven to define happiness and identify its sources.

Fundamental Of Happiness • Research has identified a number of attributes that correlate with

happiness: – relationships and social interaction,– extraversion, – marital status, – employment,– health, – Democratic– freedom, – optimism, – religious involvement– income and – proximity to other happy people.

Effect of Unhappiness to Health

• Bronchial asthma – an illness in which a pro nounced secretion of

bronchial fluids causes a swelling of the smooth-muscle tissue of the large air passage ways (bronchi).

• Tension headaches. – Produced by sympathetic-mediated contractions of

muscles of the forehead, eyes, neck, and jaw. – Tension usually builds as the parasympathetic inhibi

tion of muscular contraction gives way to sympathetic drive, increasing the state of muscular contraction.

Effect of Unhappiness to Health

• Migraine headaches. – Unlike a tension headache, which is produced by

nervous tension in the facial muscles, a migraine headache is a vascula

• Temporomandibular joint dysfunction.– Excessive contraction of the jaw muscles can Tead

to a phenomenon called temporomandibular joint dysfunction

Effect of Unhappiness to Health

• Irritable bowel syndrome. – lBS is characterized by re peated

bouts of abdominal pain or tenderness, cramps, diarrhoea, nausea, constipation, and exces sive flatulence.

– It is often considered a result of ex cessive sympathetic neural stimulation to one or more areas of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract.

Summary

• Appreciation • Life is short• We are living in a uncertainty and full of challenging

world. We could not predict what would happen in our life everyday. Do appreciate whoever next to you. Close your eyes for a few seconds. Try to feel whatever is next to you. You will feel that everything in this world is transforming. Try to appreciate others strength and not only looking in the weakness.