Title: How Hobbies Make You Happier And Healthier
Headings: How Hobbies Make You Happier And Healthier
How Hobbies Make You Happier And Healthier
Is Watching TV Your Hobby?
How Hobbies Make You Happier and Healthier
Choosing the Right Hobby for You
Creative & Classic
Challenging & Adventurous
Enriching & Inspiring
Frivolous & Fun

Content: Do you feel like life is overstimulating, yet boring? How Hobbies Make You Happier and Healthier
There’s evidence that fun diversions contribute to good health. One study showed that people who engage in hobbies enjoy better moods, feel more interested, and have less stress and lower heart rates—even hours after the recreation time. Embracing a hobby can also sharpen your ability to solve problems in other areas of life and can spin-off into unexpected skills, maybe even inspiring a new career. Pastimes improve your social well-being too. In his book Bowling Alone, author Robert Putnam describes—alongside substantial research––how Americans have retreated into isolation. He writes that while people may still do things, like bowling, for example, they tend to do them alone. Instinctively, we know we need to connect through common interests, but we are doing it less frequently. Psychology professor and columnist Jaime Kurtz, Ph.D., writes, “Over a couple of generations, Americans have somehow misplaced their free time.” Many of us may retort, “What free time?”