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Happiness Is Healthiness

Here’s The Goods on Good News

It comes in all shapes and sizes

Emmi S. Herman
Reaching Hearts
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2 min readApr 12, 2024

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Today I received good news. Really, really good news. The kind of news I had been anxious about for close to a week. While I waited, I consciously predicted a couple of pathways: one had a positive outcome and how it would affect me in the immediate future, and the other had a negative outcome and its ramifications.

The news was to come electronically, so I also checked my email every five minutes. I tried to practice patience as much as I could.

Similar to the eureka effect, when someone suddenly understands a studied concept or problem, getting the good news gave me optimism, hope, and validation.

The actual news in and of itself was, well, good. I could share it but what’s key is the effect that the news had on my body and mind. It took me to an almost out-of-body experience of light-headedness and elation. I was awash in happiness.

Think George Bailey happiness, the character in “It’s A Wonderful Life” when he’s kissing everyone in sight after he comes to the realization about the worth of his own life.

How did I celebrate my good news? I jumped up and down like a kid, I cried happy tears, I told my husband, I walked with a spring in my step…

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Reaching Hearts
Reaching Hearts

Published in Reaching Hearts

The Reaching Hearts publication is a place where readers can find stories about “Good Loves, Good Friends, and Unconditional Forgiveness.” Also Patience, Kindness, Gratitude, and Joy.

Emmi S. Herman
Emmi S. Herman

Written by Emmi S. Herman

Copywriter by day. Stories by life. At work on a memoir about my sister. Otherwise in a car somewhere between NY and NJ. eherman0110@gmail.com

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