The spirit of a person definitely has an affect on the well being of the person.
"A happy heart is a good medicine and a cheerful mind works healing, but a broken spirit dries the bones." Proverbs 17:22, Amplified
It is so true. Laughter truly does make the spirit of a person lighter. I was diagnosed with depression when I was in my late teens. So my therapist and psychiatrist conferred and felt that I needed to be placed on Lithium. Every morning I would wake up to take my medication. Every night I would take it before bed. My life revolved around this medication. I soon came to the conclusion that I did not want to kowtow to antidepressants. My shrink even went as far as to say that I would never truly be happy until my parents are dead.
I am happy to say that I am more than a decade off the antidepressants. Do I have my bad days? Sure. But I am learning more and more everyday how to live prescription drug free; I am learning more an more everyday how to be happier.
Focus your hearts on Jesus. He truly makes the heart happy and the mind cheerful. To focus on the world around us and the circumstances that beset us there is little hope for happiness. In a broken world we need an outside stimulus for happiness. I am not speaking of something external from ourselves within this world, rather something ethereal. Though it is searched for in drugs, and the opposite sex, and pornography, and drugs, happiness will continue to evade the searcher until the true source is tapped.
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