What keeps us happy and healthy as we go through life? If you think it’s fame and money, you’re mistaken. The Harvard Grant Study – the longest study of 700 men for over 75 years revealed the amazing data on true happiness, health and satisfaction.
So, what comes to mind when you think of it? – food, exercise, special regiments, vitamins or supplements ??? ….
No!!!

The Harvard Grant Study proved that the No.1 factor that contributes to our health and happiness is the quality of our relationships throughout different periods of our life…

The study checked at regular intervals a big range of psychological, anthropological, and physical traits of study group — such as their personality type and IQ, their drinking habits, family relationships, the size and functionality of their sex/reproductive organs, their diets, exercise regiments, their environment and the amount of wealth…

Here are some of the specific findings from the Harvard Study:

1. The people who do well in old age did not necessarily do so well in midlife, and vice versa.

2. The feeling that “you can rely on and trust a person” in your intimate relationship was the strongest force what kept the Grant Study men happy and fulfilled, especially at an older age.

3. While the study confirms that recovery from a lousy childhood is possible, memories of a happy childhood are a lifelong source of strength.

4. Marriages bring much more contentment after age 70, and physical aging after 80 is determined less by heredity than by habits formed prior to age 50 (youth and middle age).

5. The credit for growing old with grace, and vitality seems up to ourselves (our habits, emotions, personal strength etc) than to our genetic makeup.

6. Alcoholism is a disorder of great destructive power, and is the single strongest cause of divorce between the Grant Study men and their wives.

7. Men who had ‘warm’ childhood relationships with their mothers took home $87,000 more per year than men whose mothers were uncaring.

Conclusion:
Our emotional patterns (our long-standing emotions) have more effect on our life than anything else. The most important emotions that contribute to our health are Safety, Security, Support and Protection which come from the person him/herself and brought by his/her relationships.