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Harvard University has done several studies on this topic of happiness, coming to the conclusion that the age at which people are happiest is 60 years and older, when you feel most at peace with yourself. Along the same lines is the famous Spanish psychiatrist Enrique Rojas, who has just published a book titled 'Understand your emotions'.

His seven tips to achieve happiness

----- 1. Forgive yourself

We all make mistakes at some point in our lives. Sometimes we realize it in the moment and other times we don't realize it until a few years later, when our vision of things is clearer.

----2. Maintain balance between head and heart

According to the psychiatrist, these concepts "are two major components of our psychological heritage that often come to blows." For the expert, the most important thing is knowing how to create harmony between both components.

3. Have a positive outlook on life

Life is an accumulation of positive and negative events, but to be happy it is vital to see the good side of everything that happens to us. For this reason, he advises having a positive vision of things, that is, "the ability to always see, despite the regrets, the good angle, the positive plot."

4. Educate your will

A person, to be happy, needs to have a well-educated will. "The will is an essential piece of our psychology and the strong, firm, solid, compact, consistent, stony will is a true gem,"

5. Create a life project

Happiness has to do with having a life plan. Love, work, culture and friendship. Happiness following this course of ideas is a tetralogy in which I have an emotional life, a professional life, the culture that is the aesthetics of intelligence and friendship.

6. Have inner peace

According to Rojas, “when you are young, what you want are intense, strong, extraordinary emotions. When you are a few years old you want peace, serenity, calm.

7. Maintain the illusion

Keep the illusion alive at any stage of life. «Happiness consists of enthusiasm, which means always having challenges, objectives and plans to fulfill.

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A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

Proverbs 17:22

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I have seen first hand the powerful deleterious effects upon health via the heart and or cancer to leave no doubt people do die from broken hearts. To overcome these powerful emotions take heed what the Lord said in Matthew 11:

"25At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. 26Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight. 27All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him. 28Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 30For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."

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