How to Be Truly Happy

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Behappy, Mental Health, Meditation, Anxiety, Sleep, Mindfulness, Alternative Health, Guidedmeditation, Health & Fitness, Focus

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🗓️ 1 May 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Joy is not something that comes to you. It's a quality you cultivate from within. You may have forgotten your joy. If so, no worries. This week is all about cultivating your own inner joy. You will be creating touch points of joy throughout the week to remember what gives you a deep sense of sustained joy. This is part 6 of a 7-part Remembering Joy Series, episodes 2012-2018. Give our new sip and om app a test drive for 2-weeks free! Receive access to 2,000+ fully guided meditations customized around a weekly theme. Select from 300+ series to fit your mood with a Clarity Journal and a Slow Down Guide customized for each theme. Brand new themes are introduced each week with brand new meditations offered daily. Connect with other meditators on the private Facebook group for app subscribers.

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Resources: Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke and Greg Keller.

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0:00.0	This is episode 2017 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you
0:10.1	back to our series this week. We are exploring joy and you may be trying to remember what makes you happy during this coronavirus pandemic where most of the world has been under stay-at-home orders, you might find yourself
0:39.2	living a completely different life.
0:44.1	And even though it hasn't been that long
0:48.5	since we've been in this lockdown mode, although it can feel like it's been way too long, you might be
0:58.9	trying to remember what it was that truly gave you joy before the pandemic started. And if you really
1:10.9	think about it, were you really happy?
1:17.0	I want to share with you some research I came across regarding joy what makes people happy and this is from the Harvard Gazette health
1:29.5	and medicine the title of the article is Good Genes are Nice, but Joy is Better.
1:38.0	And this is written by Liz Manale. This study was conducted by Harvard University and
1:49.2	there are very few studies like this one. This study was conducted for nearly 80 years following
2:00.0	268 Harvard sophomores at the time who back in 1938 during the Great Depression
2:11.2	were hoping that they would lead healthy and happy lives.
2:17.0	Well, this study traced these 268 Harvard sophomores throughout their life for nearly 80 years. In fact, they even
2:29.6	later on in this study included the children and the grandchildren as participants in the study.
2:37.5	Now this was conducted on men because at the time in 1938 women were not allowed at Harvard. So this is actually one of the world's
2:50.8	longest studies of adult life. And what they were looking for is, what is the real
2:59.7	joy factor in life? They wondered wondered is it good health from having good genes or is it
3:08.4	living a long life from having good habits such as eating well and exercising? Is it fame? Is it a
3:18.2	fulfilling profession? What is it that brings people the most joy when they come to the end of their lives?
3:27.3	What was the main joy factor?
3:31.6	The study revealed that more than money or fame or good fitness or a healthy diet or a luxurious lifestyle, what keeps people happy throughout their lives, are close relationships. The director of the study, Robert Waldinger, said that good
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