Practice emodiversity
Psychologists agree that emotional well-being isn't about being cheerful all the time and avoiding sadness at all costs.
Studies that show over-pursuing the overtly cheerful kind of happiness actually may be detrimental to your mental and physical health.
Recent research in Europe found that people who have "emodiversity"—meaning they experience and express a full range of emotions including anger, worry and sadness—are actually physically and emotionally healthier than those whose range tends to be mostly on the positive side.
Of the 1,300 participants in this study, the more emodiverse ones had less medication use, lower government health care costs, and fewer doctor visits and days in the hospital. They also had better diet, exercise, and smoking habits.
Quite a relief, right, to learn that worry, anger, disappointment and sadness are all normal and vital emotions that we *need* to experience at times and that we don't have to whistle while we work EVERY SINGLE DAY!
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