Surgeon General: Happiness is Healthy

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U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is on a mission to bring you health through happiness, peace and love.“Happiness” is not an emotion, an inherited disposition that is awarded to a select few, or even dependent on events that happen to you in life. Rather, Murthy argues that happiness is a perspective, and that everyone can create it for themselves with four simple, free approaches: gratitude exercises, meditation, physical activity and social connectedness.