• Home
    • Vianna Stibal
    • ThetaHealing
    • Brainwaves
    • Beliefs
    • Free Abundance Meditation
    • Muscle testing
  • About
    • Testimonials
    • Our Team
    • Media
  • Basic Training Course
    • Host a Training
    • Advanced Training Course
    • Dig Deeper
    • Light Up
    • Manifesting Abundance
    • You and the Creator
    • Intuitive Anatomy
    • Soul Mate Course
    • Rainbow Children
    • DNA3
    • Game of Life
    • World Relations
    • Affiliate
    • Courses >
      • Rythm to a perfect weight
      • Disease and Disorder
      • Plant Course
      • Planes of Existence
  • Sessions
    • Session form
    • Coaching
    • Psychic Sensitive Readings
  • Calendar
    • Booking form
    • Brighton Venue
  • Contact us
  • Blog
  • Home
    • Vianna Stibal
    • ThetaHealing
    • Brainwaves
    • Beliefs
    • Free Abundance Meditation
    • Muscle testing
  • About
    • Testimonials
    • Our Team
    • Media
  • Basic Training Course
    • Host a Training
    • Advanced Training Course
    • Dig Deeper
    • Light Up
    • Manifesting Abundance
    • You and the Creator
    • Intuitive Anatomy
    • Soul Mate Course
    • Rainbow Children
    • DNA3
    • Game of Life
    • World Relations
    • Affiliate
    • Courses >
      • Rythm to a perfect weight
      • Disease and Disorder
      • Plant Course
      • Planes of Existence
  • Sessions
    • Session form
    • Coaching
    • Psychic Sensitive Readings
  • Calendar
    • Booking form
    • Brighton Venue
  • Contact us
  • Blog
Theta Healing UK courses | sessions Brighton, London | worldwide

Blog and musings
by Alexandra P Brown

The Pursuit of Happiness

11/18/2010

0 Comments

 
Picture
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.

How is your pursuit of happiness? If you would like any help with issues, press the link here or enrol for one of our courses here.


0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    alexandra p brown blog theta healing

     Alexandra P. Brown

     Certificate of Science and  Master Theta Healer® Instructor.

    RSS Feed

    Archives

    January 2022
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    May 2017
    September 2016
    August 2016
    April 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    October 2015
    July 2015
    April 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    August 2014
    July 2014
    March 2014
    November 2013
    June 2013
    October 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012
    December 2011
    August 2011
    June 2011
    April 2011
    January 2011
    November 2010
    October 2010
    September 2010
    August 2010
    July 2010
    May 2010
    January 2010

    RSS Feed

    All text, blog posts, images, in this collection are for educational purposes only. They contain thoughts, opinions and musings.Some science research maybe mentioned for education. 
Theta Healing Sessions online or in person
theta healing Advanced DNA online
Theta Healing Coach of the Year Alexandra P Brown
theta healing institute of knowledge


​All of our Theta Healing® Certified Practitioner Courses are  approved and accredited by  Vianna Stibal’s  Theta Healing® Institute of  Knowledge.   Theta Healing® “®/TM:  Trademarks .”  

Contact us
Host a Course or Talk
About
​Copyright © 2008 - 2022 All  rights reserved.Reproduction in any form is strictly prohibited.
​All trademarks and copyrights, images & writings on this website are owned by their respective owners and may not be reproduced  without the express written permission of the owner.
 Terms and  Conditions
The statements and testimonials found in this website are not intended to treat, diagnose, cure or prevent any disease.​ This information is given for educational purposes. In no way should any information on this website be considered as a substitute for care by your medical doctor or other healthcare professional.
DMCA.com Protection Status
theta healing/vianna stibal
PRIVACY POLICY