From: The Wall Street Journal
Walk This Way: Acting Happy Can Make It So
The Wall Street Journal:
Happy people walk differently than others, and scientists are finding that putting on a happy walk may give your mood a boost.
Research shows people’s mood affects how they walk. When people are happy, they tend to walk faster and more upright, swing their arms and move up and down more, and sway less side to side than sad or depressed people.
A recent study found that deliberately walking like a happy person can lift one’s spirits. And adopting the gait of a depressed person can bring on sadness. Scientists behind the study, which was published online in the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry in September, hope to determine if a small change in outward behavior like how we walk could work in a clinical setting to help treat depression.
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