"Have you ever had the feeling that something isn't right?" It really sounds like you're talking about our intuition. We've all had the experience of knowing things without any reasoning process. Whether you call it your heart, a gut feeling, a hunch, instinct or intuition, there are things you just know. You don't even know how or why you know, you just do. Intuition, some would say, is inner knowledge that comes from a wellspring of wisdom within that can help you to survive and even thrive. If you want to know more about that just watch a documentary that was released on Sunday, March 26, 2006, called The Secret on either Netflix. I watched that documentary when I was a senior at Wesley Chapel High School on my Xbox360 with Netflix. The law of attraction, the philosophical concept that's discussed in-depth by the authors, philosophers, and scientists in that documentary, has intrigued me ever since.
I'm not very emotional, especially when it come to expressing emotion externally or outwardly. One study suggests that children laugh 400 times a day and adults laugh 15 times a day. I probably laugh 3 times in one month. I don't laugh around people. Not because I don't want to, it's just difficult for me physically to express positive emotions with audible, vocal, expulsions of air. I laugh the most when I'm alone and I have amusing thoughts or I'm watching something amusing the Internet. I'm a happy person, even though my happiness is not always apparent, readily seen, or visible, even though I'm not always laughing and smiling. A wealth of research that shows that laughter is healthy. A study done in 2008 found that even the anticipation of a humorous and positive experience can reduces potentially detrimental stress hormones. Doctor Lee Berk of Loma Linda University [in Loma Linda, California] was the study's team leader researcher. When anticipating laughter subjects experienced lower levels of three stress hormones, cortisol, epinephrine, and dopac. The anticipation of laughter reduced these hormones by 39 percent, 70 percent, and 38 percent, respectively. Smiling can also make you happy. A study done in 2009 by psychologists at the University of Cardiff in Wales found that people whose ability to frown is compromised by cosmetic botox injections are happier, on average, than people who can frown.
Happiness by Randy Alcorn was published on Thursday, October 1, 2015. I read the preview of the book this year and then bought from Amazon on Friday, July 8, 2016. There a lot of good quotes that book. One I've told many people is in the introduction, "Until Christ completely cures us and this world, our happiness will be punctuated by times of great sorrow. But that doesn't mean we can't be predominantly happy in Christ. Being happy as the norm rather than the exception is not based on wishful thinking. It's based on solid facts: God secured our eternal happiness through a cross and an empty tomb. He is with us and in us right this moment. And he wants us to be happy in him." Psalm 16:11 in the English Standard Version says, "You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore." Charles Spurgeon said, "As there is the most heat nearest to the sun, so there is the most happiness nearest to Christ." That scripture verse and quote are on page 87 of Happiness. Augustine said, "He is happy who possess God." He also said, "[God] is the fountain of our happiness, He the end of all our desires." That's on page 88. The Bible has a lot to say about happiness. I would encourage everyone to memorize scripture verses and Christian quotes about happiness and read Happiness by Randy Alcorn.
