Panacea

  The link between happiness and health is indisputable. It is so much so that the two can hardly exist without one another. Ask Tenzin Gyatso, the current Dalai Lama and the highest spiritual Tibetan leader, and he is famous to have said that "happiness is the highest form of health."  I agree.  Staying healthy without being happy is next to impossible and a low life satisfaction is almost certain to derail one's health sooner or later. All that promote happiness, or subjective well-being, then, are likely to improve one's health outcomes, too.  But, life has inescapable ups and downs and we all experience loss, failure and disappointment -- some more than others -- as our journeys progress and we age. So the question is how do we stay happy regardless? Here, I will propose a certain state of mind that allows people to attest to a solid, thick body of contentment with their lives no matter what: Core happiness. It is an uninterrupted experience of perfection in one&#