what does it mean to you to be happy?

Question

*having luxurious material possessions?
*a spouse?
or.......

Answer 1

A poor man and even the sick can be happy. This sensation alone has no bar to anyone when the feeling of contentment and pleasure will render a person in a happy mood. Happiness is an invigoration for both mind and body. As such, a happy person has endowment of good health and confidence that matter in some of the successes in life. In addition, life is dull and worthless, when the sensuous display of happiness is unavailable to appease the moments of our stay on earth.

Answer 2

Having luxurious material possessions and NO spouse.

Answer 3

Each of us has desires, dreams, wants, preferences.
When we achieve these or otherwise go in the right direction to achieve them, we feel good. IMO this is happiness. For humans it is also love. It is a flow of energy which circulates without resistance. When these wants, for the sake of brevity, happen to be contradictory, we feel stress. It is up to us to choose what it is that we want. The other side of the coin is that when we are moving in the wrong direction to achieve our wants, we feel bad or negative emotions. When we notice that we are feeling this way, it is direct communication from our higher selves (souls) which is letting us know that something is amiss. At one time this was called missing the mark, then that term was translated to the word ^sin ^. This is why SIN gets you in hell. It feels like hell when we are not moving in the correct direction to get or accomplish our dreams, preferences, etc. Now any thought which we repeat enough times becomes a belief or habitual thought. This belief then also falls in with the group of wants or desires and when we go against them it causes friction or resistance which leads to more suffering . It is simple cause and effect. Lets take one of your examples, say wanting abundance. If you want abundance say because your bills are piling up and you want to go to college or you want to travel, then you are piling up different desires or dreams, wants. If you are taught that money is the source of all evil and that it is a terrible thing to be selfish, then these become beliefs that are contradicting your other wants but they are also wants and these become a resistance to the others. In that scenario there is created a lot of resistance. In health it is often called blocks, and blocks cause illness. You see we attract what we focus on, what we want and don`t want equally. If you think about this mathematically, you can see that a positive amount of wants and a negative amount of desires of the un-want variety equal zero and nothing enters into one`s life. This leads to the fact that in this universe, the better it gets, the better it gets, and the worse it gets, the worse it gets. Everyone has heard that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Now you have the possibility of understanding why, as long as you can let it in and not offer resistance. Joy to all!

Answer 4

Happiness should be defined I suppose... How do we define happiness? One might posit that to be happy one must be free of unhappiness. So what, one might then ask, causes unhappiness? We can point to common causes like physical pain and emotional distress caused by trauma or loss but then we must concede that it is possible for an individual who has suffered loss, trauma or physical pain to feel true happiness in spite of these supposed causes. So we must in then concede that we must find another definition of happiness than the absence of physical or emotional pain. So I suppose you could look at the other side of the absence of negative stimulus argument and ask does happiness lie in getting what we want? In this case happiness would be deemed to be caused by desire fulfilment so then we must ask if it is always the case that when our wishes are fulfilled we are made happy? To this we must concede that there are indeed instances when getting hat we want does not lead to happiness. So we can now say that happiness is not brought about by the absence of unpleasantness or by the fulfilment of our desires then we must look elsewhere for what makes us happy.
Personally, the greatest happiness I derive from life comes from people, not things. When I give of myself I am happy. To sit and give some man-company to my ageing father-in-law, to smile and say good-morning to a neighbour on the street, to help an overburdened mother wither bags and stroller on the bus. These are the source of happiness, not stuff. Stuff is the source of comfort.

Answer 5

See John 3:16 Ultimate happiness!!!

Answer 6

To put an end to all the judicial activists in the States telling Americans where to send their kids to school, what consitutes a marriage, showing preferential treatment to fellow Americans over skin color, all the while claiming America is a free country.

Answer 7

There is place in my mind where the heart and soul cannot go. It is my happy place, one that none but me knows. Where I can find solitude and peace, free of the world' s unhappy blows. I go there when things become frought with sadness and turbulence. It is a place that none can influence.

Answer 8

I think that being happy doesn't happen to involve material possesions (like you kind of suggested).

I belive that being happy is a state of contentment, when your ambitions have been achieved/satisfied.

Answer 9

Knowing that I can, in small, seemingly inconsequential ways, have a positive effect in other peoples lives, and to value and appreciate what I do have, instead of dwelling on what I don't have.

Answer 10

The people I care about being happy.