570. What 'Sighs' Are You? Being cheerful, and helping others around you to be also.
This is a great article on how to stay cheerful and happy, and be able to help others do the same. As the holidays are over, and we again go back to our usual routines, this will help us keep that happy spirit we had during the holidays! (Hopefully!) This is another article I saved, first posted on Meridian Magazine on May 25, 2015. PERSONAL VOICE What ‘Sighs’ Are You? By Joni Hilton · May 25, 2015 “Uh-oh. You’re sighing.” This observation by my husband usually follows repeated efforts on my part, to get something to work. It could be anything from a machine to a recipe, but eventually my frustration reveals itself in a sigh. And we’ve all done it. We’ve exhausted our reserves of effort, patience, or sheer stamina, and there it comes: The sigh. Scientists say we do it to reset our breathing, after a long spell of monotony. They also say we sigh for negative reasons far more often than the sigh of relief or the sigh of joy (picture a coed swooni