Steemit Engagement Challenge / S11W1 - "Happiness is the highest form of health."

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Hello 👋 friends, greetings from Lagos Nigeria. I believe you are all doing well from your end.

I welcome you all to my entry into the season 11, week 1 of the Steemit engagement challenge.

And we have a very important topic here from Healthy Steem Community.

In this week's challenge we are looking at happiness and how it affects our health.

@talktofaith captured in a happy mood

Happiness is actually a choice. One can choose to be or not to be happy, no matter the situation at hand.

A lot of things happens these days that are either causing people anxiety, depression or even suicide.

Basically, being happy is a choice and an intentional act.

Today, there are a lots of things happening around our environment that could bring about unhappiness, depression and even suicide.

The rate of depression and suicide case are rising on daily basis, all these are as a result of unhappy life style.

Happiness is a choice and it's an intentional acts, one have to make it a point to be happy at all times, no matter the situation of things around.

It is very important to live a happy life, as there are many benefits attached to it.

• Happiness helps in maintaining a healthy body.

• Happiness attracts success. People who tend to be happy are always successful.

• Happiness helps in maintaining a healthy relationship with people and spouse as well.

• Happiness helps in prolonging life span.

Happiness in my own understanding means a positive state of mind that makes one feel good and excited.

Most times, we tend to be happy because of the good happenings around us and in our lives, when we are satisfied, when we attend to a certain height in life etc.

Once something good starts happening, it triggers this positive and exciting vibes and mood in a person and at that point, the person is said to be happy.

Yes!!! Happiness is a decision.

From the beginning of my entry, I clearly stated that happiness is a choice and an intentional act.

One can choose to be happy or not to be happy, no matter the happenings around their lives and environment.

There are lots of unhappy people today, some of them has money, cars, establishments etc, yet they are not happy.

There are lots of millionaires who are depressed and who had also committed suicide, it's because they are not happy despite their achievements.

And there are also people that doesn't have much, but the little they have, they chose to be happy and grateful for all.

So, happiness is a choice.

A lot of things can make one unhappy, that's why we all should be intentional about our happiness.

We can decide to be happy and intentionally make ourselves happy.

I am always happy, I choose to live a happy life.

But then, when something positive happens to me, it increases my happiness level.

• When I make a successful business deal, it increases the percentage of my happiness.

• When my post receives a vote support here on Steemit, I gets happier.

• When I received a good news from my family members, I get happier as well.

• When I'm in dare need that I don't know how to go about it, and His comes through for me, I get so happy.

There was a period I had a very serious financial challenge and I needed money to sort out something pressing that had a deadline.

I contacted a couple of persons and I was disappointed, I almost gave up and didn't know the next thing to do.

At the dying minute, a friend came through for me and gave me the exact amount I was looking for.

I was so happy, tears of joy roles down my eyes.

Yes, a happy person is usually a healthy person. That is why doctors will always tell one to always do what makes them happy.

There are lots of statistics that had been gotten from researches of people who were happy I'm comparison to unhappy people, it was proven that the happy ones outlived the unhappy ones.

Happiness increases healthiness and life span.

I invite @thomisin, @steemdoctor1 and @josepha to come participate in this contest.

Best regards

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