Make happy Longevity still hum the song Do not Worry Be Happy. The song is famous in the era of the 1980s this was true. A study showed that being happy makes life would be more durable and longer. "Happiness does not heal, but to protect us from disease," says Ruut Veenhoven of Erasmus University in Rotterdam in a study to be published next month.

After reviewing the three studies have been conducted in various parts of the world during the period to 30 years, the Dutch professor said the effects of happiness on longevity were the same as if we compare between people who smoke and who do not smoke.

Feeling happy, he said, can extend the life of 7.5 to 10 years.
These findings led to a new question which is quite difficult to answer, namely about the causes of happiness. What could make someone happy?

And related to this question we need to look interesting phenomenon in developed countries. The material was so pursued in such a way. But once achieved, in this place, the excess material or abundance of food was regarded as something of their lives no longer satisfy.

Questions on happiness appeared, analyzed, and became a serious question to be sought out. Some of the answers revealed that then fell on the state of so-called hedonic (pleasure prioritize the material, physical).

"The idea that there is a situation called happy and we can explain the characteristics of taste and how it is measured, is clearly a subversive idea," says Bill McKibben in his book Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, 2007.

This will make the devotees of economic thinking to increase wealth. In fact, the increase of material, wealth, only accounts for the emergence of a little happiness. Thus the results of that research.

However, happiness can arise due to the warm atmosphere of friendship and fun, as well as social factors such as freedom, democracy, effective governance, and rule of law upheld.

In Veenhoven's findings, published in the Journal of Happiness Studies, a scientific media, founded in 2000, evidence that the feeling of happiness is very influential on a person's life is found in a group of nuns in the United States. Perhaps because they are supported by a community of mutually supportive, interpersonal closeness and oneness of heart and mind that occurs between them.

Grammy-winning song from the 1989 Be Happy is inspired from famous teachers from India, Meher Baba. Today, in over 100 countries, of Butane in the Himalayas to the United States and Australia, economists are trying to make the indicator of "happiness" (a form of a new quality of life index) into the growing size.

Happiness, according to the specialists, which is accepted by the general public is defined as "respect for human life as a whole".

In this paper, Veenhoven first look at statistics to see if the excitement of bringing influence to those who are sick. Who found happiness actually does help reduce the pain experienced by cancer patients. However, the general happiness will not prolong their lives.

Among the citizens of a healthy society, on the contrary, happiness shown to protect them from illness. This means prolong their lives.

Happy people more easily aware of their weight, better know and understand the symptoms of illness that may arise in him, tend to be more moderate if they are smokers and drinkers, and overall healthier life. They are also more active, more open to the world, more confident, help to make the right decisions, and build strong social networks.

"So far we know that the feeling of happiness will make us become healthier physically, but we do not know exactly how. Sadness or feeling less happy chronic enable response to fight in us. That is, these conditions would threaten ourselves for long term will make our own hypertension and decreased immune response ", he wrote

To increase the sense of joy needs no additional research on the effects of living conditions, school, or the environment that surrounds our lives for a long time. Does all that make us happy?

In fact, research on job satisfaction and workplace also affect a person's happiness. Therefore, governments need to teach or at least provide a good atmosphere on its people to live comfortably so that everyone can enjoy life and find meaning in her life.

"If we do not feel well, we'll go to a general practitioner," he said. "If we feel unhappy, no expert at it. We must seek its own. Professional instructions how to live happily until now no one, "he said. This is clearly a real sign of market failure and economy. In the end, without this, too many people feel happier.