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If you’re like most Americans (71% according to Sleep Foundation), you probably make your bed every day or almost every day. Having a consistent morning routine can lower stress and make you more productive at work. But one prevalent everyday habit might actually be hindering your health and sleep goals.
It might even be one of the first things you do after you wake up and research shows that having a consistent morning routine can lower stress, increase energy and make you more productive..…Story continues…
By Amanda Breen
Source: Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Make Your Bed Every Morning in 2024 | Entrepreneur
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Different forms of well-being, such as mental, physical, economic, or emotional are often closely interlinked. For example, improved physical well-being (e.g., by reducing or ceasing an addiction) is associated with improved emotional well-being.
As for another example, better economic well-being (e.g., possessing more wealth) tends to be associated with better emotional well-being even in adverse situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic Well-being plays a central role in ethics since what a person ought to do depends, at least to some degree, on what would make someone’s life get better or worse.According to welfarism, there are no other values besides well-being.
The terms well-being, pleasure, and happiness are used in overlapping ways in everyday language, but their meanings tend to come apart in technical contexts like philosophy or psychology. Pleasure refers to experience that feels good and is usually seen as one constituent of well-being. But there may be other factors, such as health, virtue, knowledge or the fulfillment of desires.
Happiness for example, often seen either as “the individual’s balance of pleasant over unpleasant experience” or as the state of being satisfied with one’s life as a whole, is also commonly taken to be a constituent of well-being. Theories of well-being try to determine what is essential to all forms of well-being. Hedonistic theories equate well-being with the balance of pleasure over pain.
Desire theories hold that well-being consists in desire-satisfaction: the higher the number of satisfied desires, the higher the well-being. Objective list theories state that a person’s well-being depends on a list of factors that may include both subjective and objective elements.
Well-being is also scientifically dependent on endogenous molecules that impact feelings of happiness such as dopamine, serotonin, endorphins, oxytocin, cortisol and more “Well-being related markers” or “Well-being bio markers” play an important role in the regulation of an organism’s metabolism, and when not working in proper order can lead to malfunction.
Well-being is the central subject of positive psychology, which aims to discover the factors that contribute to human well-being. Martin Seligman, for example, suggests that these factors consist in having positive emotions, being engaged in an activity, having good relationships with other people, finding meaning in one’s life and a sense of accomplishment in the pursuit of one’s goals.
The well-being of a person is what is good for the person. Theories of well-being try to determine which features of a state are responsible for this state contributing to the person’s well-being. Theories of well-being are often classified into hedonistic theories, desire theories, and objective list theories.
Hedonistic theories and desire theories are subjective theories. According to them, the degree of well-being of a person depends on the subjective mental states and attitudes of this person. Objective list theories, on the other hand, allow that things can benefit a person independent of that person’s subjective attitudes towards these things.
For hedonistic theories, the mental states in question are experiences of pleasure and pain. One example of such an account can be found in Jeremy Bentham‘s works, where it is suggested that the value of experiences only depends on their duration and the intensity of pleasure or pain present in them. Various counterexamples have been formulated against this view.
They usually involve cases in which common-sense suggests that options with a lower aggregate pleasure are preferable, for example, that the intellectual or aesthetic pleasures are superior to sensory pleasures or that it would be unwise to enter Robert Nozick‘s experience machine. These counter-examples are not knock-down arguments but the proponent of hedonistic theories faces the challenge of explaining why common-sense misleads us in the problematic cases.
Desire theories can avoid some of the problems of hedonistic theories by holding that well-being consists in desire-satisfaction: the higher the number of satisfied desires, the higher the well-being. One problem for some versions of desire theory is that not all desires are good: some desires may even have terrible consequences for the agent.
Desire theorists have tried to avoid this objection by holding that what matters are not actual desires but the desires the agent would have if she was fully informed. Objective list theories state that a person’s well-being depends on a variety of basic objective goods. These goods may also include subjective factors like a pleasure-pain-balance or desire-satisfaction besides factors that are independent of the subject’s attitudes, like friendship or having virtues.
Objective list theories face the problem of explaining how subject-independent factors can determine a person’s well-being even if this person does not care about these factors. Another objection concerns the selection of these factors. Different theorists have provided very different combinations of basic objective goods. These groupings seem to constitute arbitrary selections unless a clear criterion could be provided why all and only the items within their selections are relevant factors.
Research on positive psychology, well-being, eudaimonia and happiness, and the theories of Diener, Ryff, Keyes and Seligmann covers a broad range of levels and topics, including “the biological, personal, relational, institutional, cultural, and global dimensions of life”. The World Happiness Report series provide annual updates on the global status of subjective well-being.
A global study using data from 166 nations, provided a country ranking of psycho-social well-being. The latter study showed that subjective well-being and psycho-social well-being (i.e. eudaimonia) measures capture distinct constructs and are both needed for a comprehensive understanding of mental well-being. Gallup’s wellbeing research finds that 33% of workers globally are thriving, 55% struggling and 11% suffering.
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