Joni PatryVedic Astrologer, Spiritual Guide, and Author

How to Determine your Hapiness Set Point? With Marchi Shimoff #shorts

8 Apr 2023 · 1 min

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Short YouTube clip (April 8, 2023) in which Marchi Shimoff explains how a person’s happiness “set point” is determined: approximately 50% genetics, 10% circumstances, and 40% habits of thought and behavior; she further notes epigenetics research (e.g., Bruce Lipton) suggesting habits can influence gene expression and thus potentially alter the set point.

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So it's the set point that is the key. And here's how it's determined. Your happiness set point is 50% genetic. You're born with it. Now, I was not born with the happiness genes. And you know, I bet even in people's charts, you can see, are they born with that tendency for happiness? I was not. It's 10%, your circumstances. Now, that is a tiny piece of the pie. And yet that's what everybody's trying to fix in order to be happier. That's what I spent the first 35, 38 years of my life focusing on, or 30 years. I think, really what can I do to be happy from the outside? The other 40% is our habits of thoughts and behavior. And that's what we can really shift to shift our happiness level. And I'm going to take it a step further and say that's researchers in the field of epigenetics like Dr. Bruce Lipton, he wrote a book called the Biology of Belief. They will say that even our genes can be influenced or changed by changing our habits.