Oh Happy Day: New Hampshire Ranked #1 in Personal Wellbeing

If you’ve taken time out of your busy schedule to hang out with your grandma, learn how to paint or volunteer at the local animal shelter, then you’re considered “emotionally balanced.”

And you’re likely not the only emotionally balanced person on your street.

A new study from Lantern, a web platform that aims to help people improve their emotional well-being, claims New Hampshire as the most “emotionally recharged” state. This means more New Hampshire residents take time to improve their well being than residents in any other state.

To create the Lantern Emotional Balance Index, the company surveyed more than 3,000 people over two weeks between Dec. 26, 2014 and Jan. 9, 2015.

During those two weeks, a projected 75 percent of New Hampshire residents reported regularly taking the time to “learn something new, share a moment of closeness with a loved one, have a meaningful conversation with a friend, do a good deed for someone else, or engage in other activities that help them truly rest, recharge, and unwind,” according to the study.

Also among the top 5 most emotionally recharged states are: Indiana, Louisiana, Kansas and Arkansas. Utah residents, according to the report, have the worst personal well being, with only 40 percent of residents claiming they take time to relax.

A few of New Hampshire’s neighbors could use some tips on relaxing. Both Vermont and Massachusetts made the study’s list of least emotionally recharged states, ranking number 7 and number 10 respectfully. Maine is in better shape, with a rank of 11 on Lantern’s list of most emotionally recharged states.

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