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Show Ten Rules for Happiness You've read, you've thought, you've heard a good deal about happiness. hap-piness. You've seen people seek it, most of them unsuccessfully. You wonder whether there is really any way to guarantee yourself as much happiness as you think everyone has a right to expect. Maybe these ten rules from the Cleveland Academy of Medicine will help. A learned committee from this academy studied the matter. What it sought was a formula for happier living. The rules are: Have a hobby. A hobby is a ugc, a storm cellar into which you can duck when stress and storms on the surface of your life buffet you about too much. Develop a philosophy of life. That simply means to have a guide by which to live. A life without one is a helter-skelter existence without plan, without goal, without the comfort com-fort of ideals or truth. Share your thoughts. Companionship Companion-ship is essential to personality and to mental health. If anyone lives too long with his own thoughts they can generate explosive qualities that destroy. Confess, confide, consult someone you like. Face your fears and have It out. The world is filled with people running run-ning away from fears, but never quite escaping them. Face yours. Overcome them boldly. Balance fantasy In your life with fact. Dream, for all normal beings must, but balance your dreams with acts. Don't fall into the habit of dreaming your life away. Beware of alluring escapes from your troubles but face them realistically realis-tically and work out a reasonable answer. Exercise moderately In order that I you may have physical as well as mental health. Love wisely, for life without love is life without light. Don't worry. Trust in time and be patient. There you have the ten rules for happiness. They seem almost too simple to be effective. But they are the rules based upon ! eternal truths of human nature and ; psychology, and if you will adopt I and follow, them they will do some I Interesting things to your own life. |