The U.S. Surgeon General Wants To Bring You Peace And Love

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The U.S. Surgeon General Wants To Bring You Peace And Love

by Anna Almendrala at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/surgeon-general-happiness-vivek-murthy_564f857ee4b0d4093a57c8b0?utm_hp_ref=politics&ir=Politics&section=politics

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The U.S. Surgeon General is on a mission to bring you happiness, peace and love.

His serious public health agenda for the U.S. includes addressing the state of substance addiction and gun control as a health policy and ending stigma for mental health. But Vivek Murthy, one of the youngest surgeon generals to ever serve in the role, is also emphasizing happiness as one of the main ways to prevent disease and live a long healthy life.

Let's be clear: “Happiness” is not an emotion, an inherited disposition that is awarded to a select few, or even dependent on events that happen to you in life. Rather, Murthy argues that happiness is a perspective, and that everyone can create it for themselves with four simple, free approaches: gratitude exercises, meditation, physical activity and social connectedness.

In Murthy's tour throughout the United States, he’s been collecting stories about people and communities that are putting their happiness -- long term, emotional well-being from fulfillment, purpose, connectedness and love -- front and center. In a presentation at the TEDMED conference in La Quinta, California, last Thursday, Murthy shared one such story about Visitacion Valley, a poor, troubled school in San Francisco plagued by low test scores, high suspension rates and community violence on such a large scale that they had to hire full-time grief counselors. But after instituting a new tradition of twice-daily 15-minute meditations in 2007, the school underwent a startling transformation.

“Within a year, something incredible happened: suspension rates dropped by 45 percent, teacher abstenteeism dropped by 30 percent, test scores and grade point averages rose markedly," said Murthy during his TedMed talk. "The students reported they were less anxious and they were sleeping better, and the self-reported happiness scores of the students went from one of the lowest scores in San Francisco to the highest score in the entire district."



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1. The GOP will see this as a threat because it doesn't involve buying a product or

going to church. Even with a crisis among white males in the South dying early of drug/alcohol abuse or other ways of being unhappy, the GOP will not allow a positive relationship between government and the public. Just you watch. This does not benefit them and is a threat to how the GOP roll. Pursuit of happiness is not something the GOP obviously believe in. Was a time Americans were proud of their government and its might and good works. The GOP has killed that positive in the lives of others as psychopaths will do.