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it's all a state of mind,so the experts say. here follows some gumpf:


The fact is happiness is not a destination or objective and it’s not something we eventually arrive at. It is something we do. It is an attitude to life. It’s our relationship to the way we feel about life not the way life makes us feel. In short happiness is something that you can achieve right now – if you want to.
The reality is that we become addicted to nothing more than our emotional state, and, believe it or not, our minds generate the very chemicals we need to satisfy our emotional addiction, whatever it may be – anger, depression, sadness, victim-mentality or joyful, happy, positive, upbeat, etc. In essence if you need to feel bad about something your brain will produce ‘bad-juice’, and if you need to feel good about something your brain will produce ‘good juice’.
What would you rather generate – good stuff or bad stuff? The choice is actually yours.
There is now an abundance of research that proves that being happy is good for your health. Look it up on the wonderful internet! It is also claimed that happiness could be more important than smoking in determining your health.
Dr Derek Cox, Director of Public Health at Dumfries and Galloway NHS, suspects that for decades health professionals have been missing a big trick in improving the health of the nation.
"We've spent years saying that giving up smoking could be the single most important thing that we could do for the health of the nation”. Yet there is mounting evidence that happiness might be at least as powerful a predictor, if not a more powerful predictor than some of the other lifestyle factors that we talk about in terms of cigarette smoking, diet, physical activity and those kind of things."
“If you are happy you are likely in the future to have less in the way of physical illness than those who are unhappy.”
Dr Derek Cox, Director of Public Health
Andrew Steptoe, the British Heart Foundation Professor of Psychology at University College London, has found that happier people also have greater protection against things like heart disease and stroke.
"We know that stress which has bad effects on biology, leads to those bad changes as far as health is concerned," said Mr. Steptoe. "What we think is happening is that happiness has the opposite effect and has a protective effect on these same biological pathways".

righty ho when can i get a repeat prescription of happiness!