We all want to focus more on what matters in life. But with the world pulling us in so many different directions, it’s hard to identify what truly makes us happy. How can we listen deeply with all this noise?
This is where research can help us.
It’s time to turn to the science of what creates a happy life studies based on happiness. What really brings us a sense of fulfillment and purpose?
What researchers at Harvard University discovered over the last 75 years (yes, 75 years in one of the longest active studies ever!) is nothing short of incredible: One factor, above everything else, can indicate lifelong levels of happiness and fulfillment.
Two combined studies, the Grant Study - of 268 Harvard grads from the classes of 1939 to 1944, and the Glueck Study of 456 men who grew up poor, in the inner-city of Boston, surveyed life-long happiness from 1939 to 2014.
This means the Grant and Gluck studies followed participants well into their 80's and 90's. These studies allow researchers to predict the psychosocial and biological variables that allow for better health, happiness, and well-being later in life!
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Researchers are currently analyzing the data from this 75-year study look into how the ways in which we behave, interact, and take care of ourselves impact our health and wellbeing later in life.
Data analysis will take years, but currently researchers are clear about one key factor that leads to “The Good Life:”
Good relationships.
Robert Waldinger, director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, indicated in 2017 that based on this data set nothing keeps you happier or healthier than good relationships throughout life.
Beyond money, retirement, your career, the home you live in, where you’ve been or what you’ve accomplished, Waldinger and his associates are clear about the outcome of the 75-year study:
You need love to live a fulfilled life.
Their conclusions are rooted in the way your nervous system responds to social interaction, friendship, and love. All three factors create a healthier brain—which stays healthier longer—and decreases emotional pain and physical pain.
In fact, data collected indicated that regardless of social status or wealth, people who feel lonely and lack-love are less healthy and die younger.
According to Waldinger, “the quality of your close relationships” is what matters. “It's not just the number of friends you have, and it's not whether or not you're in a committed relationship."
George Vaillant, a Harvard psychiatrist responsible for the data in this very same study from 1972 to 2004, concluded that there are two clear lessons from the study. "One is love. The other is finding a way of coping with life that does not push love away."
If love for yourself and others is the one way to live a happier, healthier life, we need to ask ourselves: How do we learn to love more?
Many recent studies have linked the ability to love to happiness and self-confidence. Feeling good about yourself is where love starts.
And you need to be “right” with yourself, or feel developed as a confident, strong, and brave individual (according to researchers), in order to let love into your life.
This means the best way to start embracing love is by learning to love yourself.
According to Chrissi Topoleski, model and inner beauty consultant, one of the first steps is to “activate your mind and body” by taking care of yourself.
“We’ve come up with this concept of Total Activation,” Chrissi said, “to activate beauty, confidence, happiness, and more from within our own bodies using natural supplements to help us reach peak physical and mental states.”
“No matter how old you are, your body has the ability to activate and bounce back with more energy, beauty, and vibrancy,” Chrissie said.
“The key to loving yourself comes from activating a version of you that you feel good about.”
Chrissi helped develop a brand called Total Activation, a complete line of products designed to unlock inner beauty naturally, from the inside out, allowing you to love your skin, your beauty, and your body.
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“Their secret is an ability to unlock natural beauty to activate it, Chrissi says, “the Total Activation line of products activates and unlocks your beauty using these very same principles.”
