welcome to in good shape is your host dr carson like a charge do you know the situation you had an argument with your best friend and then you get a headache or you messed up an exam and then you get a skin rash lots of stress at work cold so why is that because a body reacts to negative emotions but the same is true for positive feelings happy people live longer have a healthy heart and a better immune system and scientists even can find happiness in yourself. that's how do we find happiness let's be honest there's a lot of stress a lot of worries and a lot of annoying people everywhere here in germany kids even learned school how to

be happy this is school book out of the 5th grade today it's back to school for me because i will need the happiness courage to see how it works. for preparation i even have to fill out a questionnaire with the result that my personal strengths humor and creativity what this has to do with happiness well i don't know let's ask the expert. on our best and biggest contribution to a loving and peaceful world is to support others to get happier. hello angel and cost and hi nice to meet you great to be here well i'm going to learn how to be happy today from you i mean i can learn how to drive a car over by

a car or how to swim but can one learn how to be happy if i would tell this to my patients they would say well i'm weird you know what i show you something ok i have a look here when you know. what if he spot a fart right dr i that's what we often do you know we focus on one thing we see the dark the one percent and actually it's on a white piece of paper there so 99 percent of this is white so sometimes when we focus on a problem we focus on this one thing and we don't see and we don't notice of the beautiful things we have the work we have the relationship we have that was a roof over our head and so you know with the straining it's really about changing the focus and shifting it and that's a habit and you can change that you can add well i guess i can easily change my focus if i would win the lottery for instance got a $1000000.00 but this is not the happiness you talk about now i'm talking about is

much more it's like happiness is a state of being well being and well being is made up of many many different aspects you know and it ranges from. doing something that's really meaningful or it has to do with creating relationships that are really fulfilling or getting to that for you know you know and being grateful and resilient and all of that so it's so much more than just running through the street with the happy smiles really all that well how happy you are depends partly on your genes but that's not all. it's said that everybody wants to find happiness and it's clear that not everyone knows how to do it. but if anyone ever does find the formula they will have solved one of the enduring mysteries of life on earth. who for years and teaches statistics and econometrics at the university of keele he also studies happiness.

he's been at it now for more than 10 years. he says the capacity to be happy is in part genetically determined from the potential. of. this is that it does yes mysteries and that's what this looks cool. as the slim should just the kinds of figures from on that song. to torture but to just under the top it doesn't look to what on a strict as far. as fault. 50 percent genes and 10 percent spontaneous moments of joy at least 40 percent unaccounted for so far professor against and says that is where we ourselves can make a difference by doing certain things in our daily lives for example getting out and being active. but there's more to it than that how we perceive ourselves in

society also affects our sense of wellbeing. and best ensure the. v.a. officials must watch to deal that as i say i was adored. perhaps mr soft went on for long to hold on for as long as the model for. finding happiness is not just a walk in the park but the good news is a. effort can make all the difference. can you tell us more about the genes if somebody is a pessimist can you still make him happy no i can't do that you know but if a person wants to do something and become happy i can support him so little bit like somebody who's not very supportive i mean who you know but if you really wants

to change and if you really wants to do it there's a lot of exercises and training you can do to improve but in the end of the day is happiness not very individual thing different for everybody yes it is and are there any things in common. yet well what is really in common what we found with all the studies is that people practice well being they live much longer up to 10 years longer that's incredible they're more fit they're more healthy they're more tracked earth they have more floor they're more resilient so it's well worth investing into that well you traveled the world and you brought a lot of stories and experiences and did you gain any insight into the subject of happiness as well well what i've found is that basically people have very very similar needs whether it's like good relationships or flow or those those things like meaning in life but how every person does that or fulfill their finds meaning

in life it's very individual so one person might decide to just grow the most beautiful garden where somebody else decides to raise the children and somebody else wants to create an empire business. when you take a look at the world happiness report you will find that there are some countries in the world which are happier than others like the countries of scandinavia with very happy people but it's going to neighbor i mean it's dark it's cold why are people so happy there if you look at other studies you would find other countries where appy people live like bhutan yeah but even has his own minister of happiness and he says that it's very important that people have healthy relationships to others so other people are responsible for my happiness. well true i mean you really we asked social animals and we do need context so she can take human contact and if you had babies and you didn't have contact they would die so that's a very very important factor and put on one of the most amazing things is that they

start teaching that in schools now they've lived with positive psychology they have no positive education courses and the whole country they're rolling this out so that people can improve the quality of relationships as well as all the other aspects. and what role does money play i mean if you take a look at some african countries where people are really poor they scale law on a scale of happiness right so when we're looking at that money does play a big important role up to the point where you can meet your basic needs so studies show that right but after that money decreases it's not really important anymore towards your well being. so it's really about quality connection and other billet he's well if i would have some money i could book a course with you and i can learn how to be happy in the course of one week so what's the major point of this cause well if there were just one major point or the

one formula to achieve happiness you would need a whole week right so it's really about changing habits so when you change something small little habit in time you're right some are completely and utterly different and that's sort of planting the seed so that's what we do in the course and if i had to point at one point at all it would it would be great for us because of me a great for you looking out at the one point the one problem but you looking at the many many many points of all of the things you have so that would make the big difference we visited one of the participants of your course and she even did take your calls twice and that was when you're in forks and she really focused on gratefulness. look it's her mission that's it began to talk to me happiness isn't just about having a smile on my face and being a good mood. it's mainly about being open to the good things happening around me us

yet of all what's beautiful our finest moment going to it has to do with my family and the people i come into contact with during the day into order for dealing with the economist has actually having the openness to see. and enjoy these things. and i what i really savor are moments of joy there are so many of them or if you sharpen your awareness you'll have a lot of small moments of happiness and feel better as you go through life few. gratitude is important because it's a good place to start boosting your happiness. there are all kinds of things in my life i'm grateful for some things just happen but some things i make out that verdict then if i make

a conscious effort to enhance my own wariness of situations where i feel grateful it enables me to see just how often they occur every day is it what you want and how many opportunities i have to feel happy. and when and and that is what makes gratitude a great feeling and an ideal way of starting your happiness training. client one nice little exercise could involve 10 coins or beads i've tied these to my diary to see it's to your mind. claimed you just might have been me on top every time something good happens and i want to remember the moment and should i just take one of these coins and slide around to the back. side to us from at the end of the day i can see how many moments there were that i wanted to savor and the more frequently i do it the more often i remember the good moments

in my life is filled with more joy. we once had a break in my love at 1st it made me feel vulnerable that somebody could invade our privacy like. that you go through our belongings i was good before. i saw this complete chaos when i entered the room or even the cowards the planes had been trashed. here. and then i saw a little necklace. an old present from my father ashamed. to me as i found it interesting the burglar didn't think it had any value. one of us made up i suddenly realized that the only thing that it happened was the material objects were missing that was all i proceeded as their meaning and value were still

there and the bad boy tom went to viet there to hinder. our top this is what i made here are depictions of how to find happiness. look if to zion the most important thing in order to be happy is deciding that you want to be happy with the darkest that's expressed here by this door which you go through after deciding you want to be more content and when given. your hand you construct ours with moments of happiness taken and it gives you a visual sense of success or distant relation between into it might be a bit wobbly and short lived. but what is relatively stable is the foundation and the ability to generate happiness for yourself. so much.

i'm going to say examiner is permitting yourself that feeling of happiness in the 1st place. allowing yourself to see the glass as half full and not always half empty that's something i learned myself and found to be a big help. i'm here to try to go if not. 2 against klein and i for one small and simple thing you can start off with for training your happiness. is when you're lying in bed at the end of the day that money but some think of 3 things that happened that day that you're grateful for and what hurt you played in them happening it's hard to see a deeper see it's and maybe you'll find it difficult in the beginning to think of 3 things in this interview but it will get easier and more importantly it's great to see how you make your own contribution to the things happening by click this and just see it. so i would like to do some

exercises smelters you've got some exercise for me to get happy well you know it's about habits so if you're prepared to change a habit for a week i have an exercise for you just for a week for one week ok that's what you do you know it's real all right ok so here's a book so for the next week what you do this you do an exercise called 3 blessings at the end of every day you think about what was really good today that's easy that should be easy so you write that down and then you think about what is it that you contributed to it why why did that happen what did you do so for example let's say there was good weather and then you think oh well what do i have to do with that wow i went outside i really enjoyed and took my 5 minute break yeah i did that or let's say your wife was watching the children you think that was really great but what do i have to do with that and then you might discover i picked this wonderful

why i mean i picked her out and. you know and that's what you do at the end of the day so at the end of my day you just sit down and write into the book some wonderful things like i had a great talk today but not because i was a great talker but you were and i. pick you because you picked me and what you did to make this happen ok ok ok has a great idea and this would make me a happier person well all of the studies for the last 20 years was one of the most researched exercises from positive psychology and what they found if you do that for one week they can find that even up to 6 months later they can find their people report much more wellbeing and much more happiness well i can do this more. but i think the thing with the book is a great idea i mean already keeping a diary so right into the diary all the happy things of the day and what i contributed to it could be a way to increase my happiness here the 1st exercise the 3 blessings that's really

strengthening you focus on the positive that you experience during the day and also increase your self efficacy that feeling that you can do it that you can contribute and that you can change your world and your perception so in the next exercise really looking forward to it it's about communication with others ok so there's a lot of ways in which we can talk in a destructive way or in a constructive way and lots of ways in which we can talk in a passive way or active way and if you look at the active from the construct of the only one where really relationships flourish right so there's lots of x. there's an exercise set about that will do this. and you have good news saws some really bad some good news i can reckon a negative way i'm show you that and then i can do this active constructive and you just see the difference and then you attract so i have some good news ok i start to

get a. tell you what i will get a new show here on dolly right ok yeah it's a great show yeah you know. even you know this you know but i'm a little bit confused i mean we do have dinner later and did you bring the milk. i cut conceded that doesn't feel good. doesn't feel good that's a subtle eyes because i've got breaking news for me and she's not directing so this is destructive this is definitely sorcha right thank you for showing me. ok so now are you ready for the yes please ok ok so use same newness and i'll ask you some open questions tell you what i will get a new show here on the dolly oh rot in hell show almost every day night it's one hour it's a primetime show it's a hell show it's and i will do the presenter how did you find out what happened tell me well actually they just called me i wish i was in the restaurant i was

eating pizza and they called me up they told me you're going to host the show this is great it's a great help and you just called you on the phone it's just so phone how did you feel when you got the new you were telling us was great i just ordered a new slice of pizza in fact yeah let's celebrate it's a great show wow well young let's celebrate to shall we yeah yeah better i mean actively participating in the talk if somebody was telling me something is very important but this was more like a game play so i didn't buy it for her this would make me happy but perhaps i should try it sometime what the 2nd exercise is about the active and constructive coming occasion with others and if you want to blossom the relationships as something active and constructive that you can do to really make sure that the relationships blossom now we come to something very very interesting for me personally because i had to fill out a questionnaire and it was all about my personal strengths right up what did you

find out about me well you did fill out the signature strength questionnaire and that's a really really great questionnaire that shows you those strengths in a really easy they make you there are you basically and you have 3 strength which are 100 percent which is humor creativity and best. really yes there really is good well those are the strengths that come easy to you and those are the strength that you if you use those in life and you work with family you'll really strive really blossom so it would make me more happy if i would increase my humor apart from make more jokes for instance well there's exercise for the next week because it's all about changing habits so the exercises to pick one of these strength be it human creativity as a rest and then to find a way every day for one week to use that strength in

a new and different way and to increase your strength portfolio and this would make me happy and this would definitely make you happy because the more you use your strength the happier you get. to concentrate on the personal strengths like in my case humor that really feels good. for. the 3rd exercise about strengths and so if you look at the strength it's amazing because if you use only 3 of them at work well it's really positive experience if you use for war what happens is that you find really your calling and that is what life is about isn't it so to represent up to get happy it's important to focus on my personal strengths to share the gratitude of my life and focus on the small things and to share my happiness with other people sure to really change little habits that make a big difference and i look forward to more and for you to apply these exercises

from here would go ok we should do the sometime thanks very me today thank you and you know what would make me happy too if you would send me e-mails. in good shape your weekly health show on d w that covers many aspects of health care we look at what's new in the medical treatment nutrition fitness and beauty we just cus these topics in depth with specialists and a few opportunities to pose your own questions so get in touch. you know what else can make you happy coffee because the caffeine in the coffee triggers your feel good home dopamine and even the smell of all the buildings can make you feel warm and comfortable even me and i'm not a big coffee drinker myself which is a pity because coffee can do more than just make you happy.

the beans have a usual man rose a source from smallholder farmers he knows personally. in vietnam but if they go to the us in a dream right now from panama i stayed in there for about 22 minutes sometimes a minute or sometimes less to. and on what my heart tells me here don't believe it . is a physician and nutrition specialist she loves coffee because it's tasty and also because it's full of good stuff. the coffee cup is legal oils and acids appear to have a positive effect the acid functions as an antioxidant that curtails free radicals in the body. that appears to be a significant health benefit and speak to something. in the roasting process a whole cocktail of substances are produced that fight free radicals and therefore

might help tackle a range of ailments. and. studies show that drinking between 3 and 5 cups a day in middle age after the age of 30 is associated with a decreased risk of alzheimer's by about 60 percent in later life. and i thought i meant to come. research suggests that drinking more coffee can lower the risk of cirrhosis of the liver. oh this has to do with the origin of acid in coffee which removes some free radicals from the liver and contributes to a reduction in inflammatory process is caused by toxins in the environment medicines or alcohol it was a little too late some studies suggest coffee consumption might help against type 2 diabetes but the research is not conclusive. but to have.

so how is the roasting going. as his intuition served him well. or. it's not good you know why is it super i was aiming for good but it turned out super bowl and i'm so sorry. that's it for today so you. next week and i'm so then let's all try to stay in good shape. well i'm not getting the saturday night so. never mind i'm happy anyway.

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