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Do you have any New YOU's or New Year's Resolutions? What are they? How realistic are they? Have you already reached your targets and started on your next goals? Will you stick with it? What are the things that bring you down? Now is the time to assess where you are:

• Will you succumb to the Blues, depression or even seasonal affective disorder (SAD)?

• Do you know what the Blues symptoms are and how to cope with them?

• Can you break away from the Blues, SAD and stress, strain and strife?

• Ready for summer?

• How well are you handling the summer, hot weather and travel?

• Has someone close to you died or contracted a long-term illness? What about you? How’s your health?

• Are you eating right, exercising regularly and getting plenty of rest? Why not?

• How's your home life? Everything going well with your family?

• Have you or loved ones been laid off, fired, transferred, quit or promoted at work? Do you enjoy what you do for a living? Is job security a major worry for you or your loved ones?

• Have you dug yourself into debt (or deeper) or filed for bankruptcy?

• Does thinking about rising food and gas prices, the subprime crisis, Iraq and corporate misdeeds take a toll on you? Does remembering tragic events such as Hurricane Katrina, the tsunami in Asia and the eleventh day of September get to you?

• Have all the things you kept putting off come back to haunt you (taxes)?

• Have you overextended yourself (made too many work, social, personal, emotional and financial commitments)?

• Has time turned against you? Can you regain your focus and lost productivity? Are you stuck in a vacuum?

• Have you experienced unprecedented success? What now? Have you found it difficult to maintain? Did it quickly disappear? Was it what you expected? Do you want out? Are you look for the next big thing?

• Are you a new mother (or father) that recently gave birth to a bundle of joy – postpartum depression?

• Will you burn out, explode or implode? Major events (Holidays, reunions, weddings, graduations, taxes, etc.), parties, gatherings and excess mean more spending (try coupons). Will they deplete you, scare you or make you uncomfortable or anxious?

• Are you stuck with extra weight (fat, workload, finances, problems, stress, etc.)?

• Are you trying to live up to someone else's image or unrealistic expectations? How realistic are your own expectations?

Here are some FREE things that will help you lift your mood: free goodies, gift ideas and travel tips. Also, simplify your life and the way you work.

Don't worry, be happy! Depression is linked to illness, so says a University of Illinois study.

Do your best. Then, don’t worry; be happy. I will help you, originally spoken by spirtual leader Meher Baba, the avatar, in the 1930's.

• Smile! Modulating facial expressions such as relaxing the face when angry can help people control their emotions. Marsha Linehan, a University of Washington psychologist found.

• Universal facial expressions found by psychologist Paul Ekman in his 1960s worldwide travel:
  * frowns mean unhappiness
  * wide eyes mean fright or surprise
  * a wrinkled nose means disgust

• Even simple pleasures are supposed to boost immunity, reports Bottom Line.

• A key way to get happy, according to some doctors, is the skin, i.e., a weekly body massage. Also, a 30 minute sauna has been found to increase the level of the pain killing chemical found in the blood.

• Cheer up! January 24 is said to be Most Depressing Day of Year.

• The first world map of happiness: Denmark (1st place), Ireland (11), Costa Rica (13), Norway (19), the Seychelles (20), Germany (35) and France (62). Japan scored poorly, 90th on the list, why? The US (23), was behind Bhutan, Brunei and Canada, according to Adrian White, an analytic social psychologist. The list was compiled from more than 100 studies in the growing field of happiness research.

• Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland and New Jersey rated most healthy in a Mental Health American study on depression which was funded by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming and West Virginia were the most depressed states, the Deseret Morning News reported.

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