what is happiness? What are the aspects of happiness?
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Happiness is that feeling that comes over you when you know life is good and you can't help but smile. It's the opposite of sadness. Happiness is a sense of well-being, joy, or contentment. When people are successful, or safe, or lucky, they feel happiness.
Elements of happiness
Positive psychology — considered the science of happiness — makes a distinction between happiness and authentic happiness (well-being). The theory suggests that happiness can be described as three distinct elements chosen for their own sakes: positive emotion, engagement, and meaning.
These three elements are believed to be more measurable and definitive than happiness. The first, positive emotion, is what we feel: pleasure, rapture, ecstasy, warmth, comfort; a life led successfully around this element is pleasant. When we go on a holiday, spend time with friends, secure cherished grades, or win a new job, we are easily in that element of positive emotion. Yet, this state is temporary and lasts only until we yearn for bigger and better.
The second, engagement, is about being in flow: creative pursuits, competitive sport, writing, playing an instrument... pursuits where one loses sense of time and self. The best of athletes, musicians, and artists perform in this element. In this state, the person often becomes a part of the action and cannot dissociate or even explain the element separately from themselves. This is the zone of individual creativity.
The third element of happiness is meaning. Meaningfulness is always in relation to someone else; a purpose bigger than the self. The meaningful life involves belonging to and serving something that you believe is bigger than you. Most of us live life without realising this element interminably. The Dalai Lama and Mother Teresa possibly live/d in this element; many others adopt and serve a humanitarian cause once their own needs are met to a degree of fulfilment. Although the potential of meaning is limitless, a small, local cause that serves the needy over a sustained period could be a meaningful pursuit.
What is my proposition here? I wrote about the loss of connection with authentic happiness and fulfilment as we chase purpose; and explored the idea ‘What if purpose and fulfilment was part of a continuum?’ We’ve arrived at the connection: ‘What if the continuum is made of frequent and intermittent focus, action and behaviour embodying engagement and meaning (element two and three).’
The fact is that energy flows where the mind goes. Being mentally aware of inevitabilities and knowing what helps achieve and sustain fulfilment, it becomes easier to pursue a path which is frequently enjoyable, individually fulfilling and meaningful as it touches other lives.
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What is happiness?
Happiness is when your life fulfills your needs.
In other words, happiness comes when you feel satisfied and fulfilled. Happiness is a feeling of contentment, that life is just as it should be. Perfect happiness, enlightenment, comes when you have all of your needs satisfied.
What are the aspect of happiness?
Some psychologists have suggested that happiness consists of three distinct elements: the pleasant life, the good life, and the meaningful life (Seligman, 2002; Seligman, Steen, Park, & Peterson, 2005).
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