Think Happy!

I could be blogging more, but I’ve been burying my head into the website for my Northampton Hypnotherapy practice: Forward Therapy.

In fact, I haven’t done much more than think about, read, study, practice and promote Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy for about a year now! However, it is all intimately connected to my biggest passion: HAPPINESS! (I’m embarrassed to say that I even toyed with coining the word ‘hapnosis’, but was thankfully talked out of it!)

So, you might ask, what’s the connection between hypnotherapy (or any kind of psychotherapy) and happiness?

Therapy 32 times more cost Effective at Increasing Happiness than money

Research by the University of Warwick and the University of Manchester finds that psychological therapy could be 32 times more cost effective at making you happy than simply obtaining more money. The research has obvious implications for large compensation awards in law courts but also has wider implications for general public health.

…Governments pursue economic growth in the belief that it will raise the well-being of its citizens. However, the research suggests that more money only leads to tiny increases in happiness and is an inefficient way to increase the happiness of a population. This research suggests that if policy makers were concerned about improving well-being they would be better off increasing the access and availability of mental health care as opposed to increasing economic growth.

… University of Warwick researcher Chris Boyce said:

“Often the importance of money for improving our well-being and bringing greater happiness is vastly over-valued in our societies. The benefits of having good mental health, on the other hand, are often not fully appreciated and people do not realise the powerful effect that psychological therapy, such as non-directive counselling, can have on improving our well-being.”

Source: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/therapy_32_times

The only thing that’s really surprising about that is that it takes University researches to tell us!