Steemit Engagement Challenge / S11W1 - "Happiness is the highest form of health."

_{Hello Everyone. I am @shiftitamanna
From #Bangladesh}

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Assalamu Alaikum everyone. Welcome to the first week of Season 11 of the Steemit Engagement Challenge. Today I'll be participating in a great challenge in the Healthy Steem community. Where we are challenged as "Happiness is the highest form of health." It is an eternal truth that the first step to good health is happiness and only a happy person can be in possession of good health. Today I will tell you how important happiness is to our health. So let's get started.

What does the word “Happiness” mean to you?

Happiness is the sum total of all the joys and satisfactions in our life. When you find an activity brings peace to your mind, you will realize that you are experiencing happiness from that activity. I thought the same way. Happiness means peace of mind. In this case, I would say that peace of mind can come from a number of reasons. What I have to find myself, by what work I can satisfy myself.

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Like there are many who find happiness in charity or many who find happiness in good health. For example, if I were to say in my case, I would say that when I am engrossed in the worship of my Lord, a kind of tranquility comes to my mind that makes me happy. Actually I think happiness is a relative thing which can only be experienced.

Do you think that happiness is the decision of each person?

Happiness is a fundamental need of all of us. That creates a desire in our life. So we all strive for happiness. The pursuit of happiness is behind everything we do every day. But I must make a conscious decision in choosing this happiness. And here it is to accept that happiness comes from within a person, not from other people.

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I think happiness is every person's decision because it is not possible for other people to make me happy until I decide to be happy. But it is also true that in order to embrace happiness I must conquer sorrow. Because happiness is inevitable after suffering in our lives. So the decision to keep myself happy by facing any bad situation, taking the experience from it and keeping myself happy is entirely up to me.

What are the things that make you happy? Give an example of an incident which made you happy.

I keep myself happy in being satisfied with little. Because if we found happiness in getting everything according to demand, then happiness would not exist on earth. Because people's need to be happy is endless. I basically do the work that gives me peace of mind that makes me happy. As I have presented it below:

• When I worship my Lord I feel a kind of peace in my heart which makes me happy.
• Spending time with family makes me happy.
• Finally going on a tour or vacation makes me happy.

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One incident I am happy to mention briefly is when my father had a heart attack in 2020 during the Corona pandemic, I had to go through a bad situation. When the doctors gave up hope of my father's condition, I depended only on Allah. And while my father was under treatment in the CCU of the hospital, I used to pray to my Lord for my father. My faith was so strong in Allah that my father came back from death. And when the doctors told me that my father is safe from danger, I was very happy and immediately thanked Allah.

Do you think that happiness can help your health?

A proverb that we all know is that health is the root of all happiness. A healthy lifestyle makes people happy. For example, my mental and physical health depends entirely on how happy I can be with my work. It not only makes me feel good but also improves my health. Here are some ways happiness helps health :

• Happiness extends our life through our healthy lifestyle.

• A happy lifestyle makes us possess good health and strengthens the immune system of the body.

• Happy people have a reduced risk of stroke and cardiovascular disease.

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• Happiness improves our mental health and controls hypertension.

• Happiness helps life move forward by increasing your resilience and productivity.

• Happiness balances mental health by bringing us peace of mind by guiding us towards healthy behaviors.

• Happiness helps us eat healthy food as well as sleep well and thus improve our health.

Conclusion

It is evident from the above discussion that happiness plays an important role in leading our lives and improves our physical and mental health to lead a healthy life. So every person should maintain a healthy lifestyle with satisfaction by deriving enough happiness from this momentary life.

I would like to invite my friends @mdkamran99 , @goodybest , @pelon53, @ridwant, @enamul17 to participate in this contest. Click here to go to the contest link.