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Lessons From the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness | Dr. Robert Waldinger

10% Happier with Dan Harris

CHAPTER

How Do Warm Relationships Affect Your Health?

The study has been running since 1938. The people who were not just happiest but stayed healthiest and lived longer were the people who had warmer connections with other people. If you have something upsetting happening in your day, like you start ruminating about it, you can literally feel your body change. You can feel yourself go into fight or flight mode. And we're meant to return to equilibrium.

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