Remember in Chapter 3 Robert Emmons’s research that boosted people’s happiness after they kept a gratitude journal for three weeks. Not only did these people get happier but they slept better and spent more time exercising. They also reported fewer physical symptoms, such as pain. The happier you get, the healthier you get – because the happier you are, the better care you take of yourself and others.
Much of this book has been focusing on the effect that the emotions have on our minds and the best ways to get our minds to embrace and use our emotions, as knowledge and motivation and in order to cope better. Emotions also have a powerful effect ...
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