By American Cancer Society
This is written for the person with advanced cancer, but it can be helpful to the people who care for, love, and support this person, too.
Read on www.cancer.org
CLEAR ALL
The cognitive scientist Laurie Santos says “we’re fighting cultural forces that are telling us, ‘You’re not happy enough.’”
The people you surround yourself with have a profound impact on your happiness.
People who are happy but have little-to-no sense of meaning in their lives have the same gene expression patterns as people who are enduring chronic adversity.
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These days, many of us suffer from a loss of meaning, direction, vitality, mission, purpose, identity, and genuine connection—a deep unhappiness that most of us have come to consider as simply ordinary.
Studies of polar researchers, astronauts, and others in isolation shed light on possible effects of social distancing, including increased forgetfulness, depression and heart attacks.
Happiness is fleeting but meaning is forever.