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Choose carefully when considering a partner, whether to go to the cinema, restaurant and how you look after your physical well being. These choices may have a significant effect on your overall life fulfilment. That's according to a study that defies the theory that life happiness is mainly predetermined by your genetic code.

The broadly acknowledged "set-point" hypothesis of happiness states that a person's long-term happiness tends to be steady because it is reliant mainly on genetic causes. The idea is based partly on studies that show identical twins have more similar levels of life contentment than non identical twins. This implies that although your level of happiness may sporadically be thrown off by major life events, it will always return to a main set level within 2 years.

Bruce Headey at the University of Melbourne in Australia wanted to discover if people really are pre destined for a certain amount of happiness and his team queried people in Germany about their lifestyles, careers and social and religious activities. The survey was first completed by 3000 people a year, and that rose to 60,000 per year by the end of the 25-year study.

They found that evident changes in lifestyle resulted in sizeable long-term changes in reported life fulfilment, as opposed to causing the momentary changes in happiness that set-point theory had suggested.

One of the greatest influences on a person's happiness was their partner's amount of neuroticism. Those that had partners who scored greatly on tests for neuroticism were more prone to be unhappy – and shown to stay unhappy for as long as the relationship existed.

Family values and altruism also predisposed lasting happiness. Those whose yearly survey responses altered to place a higher priority on altruistic habits  and family goals were rewarded with a long-term increase in life fulfilment. Those who had a priority of  career and material success, experienced a corresponding long-term decline in happiness.

The pursuit of happiness was also helped in having strong religious or spiritual convictions. "People who attend church regularly seem to be happier than people who are not religious," says Headey.

A person's body weight was another factor for long-term happiness, notably for women. Underweight men scored slightly lower than those with healthy weights, while women stated being considerably less happy when they were obese. Being overweight seemed to have no effect on men's happiness.

Robert Cummins at Deakin University in Burwood, Australia, notes that changes in happiness reported by Headey's team could be influenced by individuals falling into or recovering from depression.

The group advises its findings may be useful to other populations, having found comparable patterns, as yet unpublished, in the UK and Australia.

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Did you know...

...that you can program your DNA to create a healthy body in as little as 2 minutes?

DNA is a nucleic acid that carries the genetic information in the cell. It is known as the "blueprint" of life because it governs the development and functioning of humans and all living organisms.

It is a widely held belief that DNA, which is shaped like a double helix, has a fixed structure and cannot be changed -- but a recent study from the Institute of HeartMath has shed startling results that challenge what we thought we knew about DNA.

In the study, human DNA was placed in a sealed test tube. Test subjects trained to generate focused feelings of deep love ... were able to intentionally cause a change in the shape of the DNA.

Negative emotions, produced at will, caused the two strands that comprise human DNA to wind more tightly. Heart-centered feelings of love and appreciation generated by the research subjects caused the DNA strands to unwind and exhibit positive changes in just 2 minutes. When those feelings were absent, no changes were observed in the DNA.

This may be the first scientific evidence of the long-held theory that emotion greatly affects our health and quality of life. This is proof positive that we can communicate with our DNA through emotion -- and thus, change the very blueprint of our health and our life.

Carnelian Sage, author of The Greatest Manifestation Principle in the World, whose book presents an ingenious approach to producing deep feelings of love at will, states: "Love is clearly something awesome embodying every person that is far greater than the genetic information stored in the DNA which resides in the nucleus of each human cell. Some refer to it as the vast intelligence that comprises our entire being, and some call it energy. Indeed, love is energy in its most fundamental sense -- the raw material of all that is. It's the most profoundly essential and transformative energy, without which life itself would not be possible."

Indeed, if we can influence the behavior of DNA in a test tube, what untold health benefits might we experience by changing the DNA in our bodies through feelings of deep love? Perhaps that's what Carnelian Sage meant when she wrote, "Love and illness cannot coexist."

Yes that’s right! Love and illness CANNOT coexist!  Want to tap into a limitless source of unconditional love?  Discover how to release the phenomenal power within you.

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Ever have a dream at night, when you wondered in the middle of it whether or not you were dreaming?


Knowing that if you were "just" dreaming, you could rewrite the scary parts and enhance the happy parts: run faster, jump higher, laugh your head off; summon guides, travel through time, read minds; levitate, manifest, do the impossible?
But then, you thought to yourself, "No, this just can't be a dream, it's way too real."

Yeah, you're having one right now.  Notice how dreams and your life are being created by you so fast, you barely notice that you're making it up as you go along!

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A simple practice for improving  your experience in life, 

1. Start each day remembering that we all want the same things (to be happy and be loved) and we are all connected to one another.
 
2. Spend 5 minutes breathing in, cherishing yourself; and, breathing out cherishing others. If you think about people you have difficulty cherishing, extend your love to them anyway.
 
3. During the day extend that attitude to everyone you meet.  Practice cherishing even people you tend to look down upon or dislike in some way. 
 
4. Continue this practice no matter what happens or what anyone does to you for 7 days and notice what happens to your life! 

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