What happiness and the flu have in common

Good news! Science has proven that happiness is contagious, and it's contagious even to people who don't directly come into contact with the happy person!

A 20 year study of more than 4,700 people found that people who are happy or become happy increase the chances that those they know, or even don't know but are in their network, will be happy. read study here
More happy news: unhappiness is somewhat less infectious than happiness! Good vibes spread more easily.

Thus, being in a network of happy people, like Braveheart Women, promotes happiness!

This reminds me of part of an interesting experiment my partner, Judi Piani (aka Braveheart's EndlessPossibilities), does with her Reiki I students. She has one student stand at one end of the room, the rest behind Judi at the other end. She then measures the aura of the single student using dowsing rods. Then she tells the group behind her to think negative thoughts about the single student. They all watch that person's aura shrink. When the group thinks positive thoughts, the person's aura expands.

Judi then has the test student think positive, loving thoughts while the group thinks negative thoughts. The aura is unaffected.

This dramatically shows how our thoughts, even not voiced, are energy that influence other people for good or ill. We need to stay positive to prevent our energy from being affected, not just by negative thoughts about us, but by all the negativity out there in the world.

Like thoughts, feelings, like happiness, have energy. Both affect others as well as ourselves. Once we realize just what kind of influence we can have, it expands our view of how we can happily serve.