2007-03-29 18:54:12 · 9 answers · asked by MountainDew 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
A little bit of both.
Yu Yeven's answer was perfect
2007-03-29 20:05:24 · answer #1 · answered by A 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your emotional or physical response to anything that happens to you is conditioned by past experience. For example, if you have had a bad experience in the past with a dentist, you will feel unhappy with the idea of having to go to a dentist. If you were burnt at any time, you will approach flames and fires with caution. If you had an unhappy encounter with someone of a certain character or personality, you will not feel happy about coming into contact with someone of a similar personality or character. If you like the taste of a certain food, you will be happy when you see that food again; but if you had didn't like the taste, you will not be happy to eat it again. If you had a negative response to an emotional experience, you will respond in a similar way when confronted with that experience again.
All our past reactions to whatever are recorded in our memory which sends signals when we come into those situations again.
It is better to be neither happy nor unhappy, but to have equanimity, or an evenness of mood, with regard to all things that happen in your life, and understand that everything is just a passing moment.
That way you will be content, which is better than being happy or unhappy.
2007-03-30 06:29:11 · answer #2 · answered by Lawrence M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am happy or unhappy because of how I decide to respond to what happens. Otherwise, it's called being emotionally irresponsible. The important part is to be able to articulate why you feel the way that you do clearly.
For example, sometimes I have damn good reason to be pissed off about something and I CHOOSE to be pissed off because it suits my purposes and effectively gets my message across.
Or I choose to be sad because the feeling is appropriate to things I am thinking about at the time, such as my grandmother slowly dying in a hospital lately.
2007-03-30 02:21:26 · answer #3 · answered by Cheshire Cat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because of how you react and nothing else!!! Remember always everything is under His control and whatever happens, happens for good. By controlling your reactions, staying positive and by trying to find His plan behind it you will experience bliss in almost anything.
2007-03-30 02:02:25 · answer #4 · answered by V_17 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both. When physical pain happens, our body sends signals telling our brians that it hurts, and so we react. later in life, we remember the traumatic pain, and continue to feel emotionally and physically bad when and if it happens again. The same goes for mental pain.
2007-03-30 01:57:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Abraham Lincoln said - most people are as happy as they make up their mind to be. which means that their happiness doesn't depend on their circumstances. It has nothing to do with what happens to us. IT has to do with what is in your heart. How you know that is if you push someone's buttons (i.e. do something to irritate them) then what comes out. if their heart is full of junk then junk comes out, anger, anger comes out, joy then joy comes out., It has to do with how a person purposes themselves to react. Many people face terrible suffering with a glad heart.
A lot of it has to do with their personal faith
sometimes it's other things too. Like their tempermant ,etc
2007-03-30 02:02:49 · answer #6 · answered by art_flood 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Happiness is a choice we make. Therefore, it is based on our own reaction.
2007-03-30 02:04:22 · answer #7 · answered by Poohcat1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both
2007-03-30 02:00:13 · answer #8 · answered by spanky 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the emotion that we put into the reaction that can be a problem
2007-03-30 01:58:19 · answer #9 · answered by Screamin' Banshee 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋