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To feel happier, we have to resolve to the life we evolved to live

  • Written by: Arash Javanbakht, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University
Exercise and activity are important parts of living the lives humans are meant to live from an evolutionary standpoint.Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock.com

When we have to give a talk to a group of people, we feel anxious and experience the bodily fear responses that do not make sense now: The system is not meant to function in this safe context....

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