2006-08-19 19:25:19 · 21 answers · asked by SCREWU 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
no worries
2006-08-19 19:28:56 · answer #1 · answered by tenstrike 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My husband and I were just discussing this. He says we should use the kid's with down syndrome as an example. They are always happy. They don't think so much about how to be happy and analyze everything. They just live in the moment and are happy with simple pleasures. I asked him if that is why he is happy all the time. : ) hehe. But really, I know a lot of Guru's say to keep it simple, be content, enjoy what you already have and not always wanting more. Love yourself. Appreciation, gratitude. The way you think affects how you feel. Thinking happy thoughts= happy. Get rid of negetives. Happiness is just a state of mind. You choose be happy or be miserable. Every day wake up and think of how you can be happier, think and do happy things. And you don't have to go around with a perma-smile. Just train your mind to focus on the positive.
2006-08-21 14:05:43 · answer #2 · answered by livelaughlove 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Happiness is defined as: "Enjoying, showing, or marked by pleasure, satisfaction, or joy." However, the dictionary is not the final arbiter of such an abstract concept which has been "defined" by so many poets, authors, song writers, philosophers, and artists. I define happiness as a long healthy life, changing the entire world by using love. Sound familiar?
2006-08-20 02:56:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A very complicated question you ask! One can answer by simply saying their is no answer because it does not truly exist. Another can say what makes me smile. But to break it down for you in a whole, happiness is a chemical reaction in your body making you feel warm and insides all jittery. To achieve true happiness we all as people must co-exist in a peaceful way which then we'd never try to out do anyone and we'd all just say please and thank you. So happiness is just a state of being in a short lived period.
So happiness is:
Love, comfortable, content, and short lived a state of mind!
2006-08-20 02:45:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
To me, happiness is not bliss, it's is content. It is a feeling of loving and being loved. It is grace and gratitude, not ecstasy. I think elation and that kind of heightened euphoria is never meant to last. It is a moment that defines the gap between the dark and the light in your life and life wouldn't be worth living if it didn't contain those extremes.
2006-08-21 03:52:02 · answer #5 · answered by MJ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
happiness can ve defined as a exhilartion or the senses, sense memory and the way we grow up and sre socialized also affects the way we percieve happineall life is suffering and there are brief periods of happiness, in this you are enthrall with you sense perception and your brain produces serotonin and dopamine, endorphines that stimulate. you can say that happiness lies in your mind up to date of sensorey stimuli that trigger certain feelings, bipolar people have theyre lows but they relate the mania to being high and euphoric. Its all brain chemistry and interconnection with nature environment and personal percecption. heh well hope this is good enough....
2006-08-20 02:41:53 · answer #6 · answered by lifecircle9 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seeing My kids happy and well taken care of. Seeing my GrandBaby smile means the world to me! Having good health and my Family also being healthy and also not having to see anyone suffer in this life.I pray for everyone. That God will allow me into Heaven when I die someday. When it is my time to go.
2006-08-20 02:45:11 · answer #7 · answered by SecretUser 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind. only an individual can define his own happiness.
2006-08-20 02:31:00 · answer #8 · answered by Mammoth 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Happiness is making others HAPPY!
Thats a little song my mum used 2 sing 2 me! it's true also!
2006-08-20 03:59:52 · answer #9 · answered by one 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Happiness is when you feel as if the whole wide world is being controlled by you. The air feels fresher and the sun shines brighter. You smile all the time without any reason. That is when you feel there's happiness in your life.
2006-08-20 02:33:51 · answer #10 · answered by gsn_1987 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Following your passions, working hard at something that is important to you, overcoming obstacles, creating, inventing, building, growing, feeling power increase, the triumph of being alive!
2006-08-20 02:34:28 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋