Is it possible to touch the happiness with the points of your fingers?
2007-11-02 13:57:43 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
happiness is not wanting what you get..
its enjoying life to the fullest and taking everyday slowly and be lucky that you have the life you have and you are a healthy and (not depressed) person..l0l =) hope this helps!
its impossible to touch it with your finger! l0l
2007-11-02 14:06:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lieing down at the bottom of your heart , I think it is under your heart , there is a spot that almost leaps for some reason it only does this when every thing is right, when it leaps every part of your body has a sudden earge to fly , course you can't but for a brief moment you feel like you can ,, and when you don't leave the ground , it doesn't bother you ,, thats happiness , so if you could touch where the feathers would go you could probably feel it , but only while the smile is still working ,
2007-11-02 21:15:55 · answer #2 · answered by darkcloud 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can touch happiness with your fingers, your toes, your mind, anything! Happiness is a total sense of well-being that pervades every part of you. It is a feeling that all is right with the world. In other words, when you're happy, you know it, and it's pretty cool!
2007-11-02 21:07:08 · answer #3 · answered by Katia S 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Happiness is an emotional state that is characterized by feelings of enjoyment, pleasure, and satisfaction.
Gautama Buddha discussed the role of the mind in the pursuit of happiness through the practice of the eightfold path. According to Buddha, "Mind is the forerunner of states of existence. Mind is chief, and (those states) are caused by the mind. If one speaks and acts with a pure mind, surely happiness will follow like one's own shadow!" In Buddhism, the third of the Four Noble Truths states "to eliminate suffering, eliminate craving", thus establishing happiness as beyond material and emotional possession and attainable only through an attentive practice leading to extinguishing of craving and aversion. According to Jainism, happiness and bliss is the natural state of the soul. A soul when liberated from all its karmas experiences infinite bliss, knowledge and perception.
The Chinese Confucian thinker Mencius, who 2300 years ago sought to give advice to the ruthless political leaders of the warring states period, was convinced that the mind played a mediating role between the "lesser self" (the physiological self) and the "greater self" (the moral self) and that getting the priorities right between these two would lead to sagehood. He argued that if we did not feel satisfaction or pleasure in nourishing one's "vital force" with "righteous deeds" that force would shrivel up (Mencius,6A:15 2A:2). More specifically, he mentions the experience of intoxicating joy if one celebrates the practice of the great virtues, especially through music.
About one hundred years later the Hindu thinker Patanjali, author of the Yoga Sutra, wrote quite exhaustively on the psychological and ontological roots of bliss.
In his book Authentic Happiness Martin Seligman, one of the founders of Positive psychology, describes happiness as consisting of both positive emotions (such as ecstasy and comfort) and positive activities (such as absorption and engagement). He presents three categories of positive emotions related to the past, present and future.
Positive emotions relating to the past include satisfaction, contentment, pride and serenity. Positive emotions relating to the future include optimism, hope and trust. Positive emotions about the present are divided into two categories which are significantly different: pleasure and gratifications. The bodily and higher pleasures are "pleasures of the moment" and usually involve some external stimulus.
Gratifications involve full engagement, flow, elimination of self-consciousness, and blocking of felt emotions. But when a gratification comes to an end then positive emotions will be felt. Gratifications can be obtained or increased by developing signature strengths and virtues. Authenticity is the derivation of gratification and positive emotions from exercising signature strengths. The good life comes from using signature strengths to obtain abundant gratification in, for example, enjoying work and creative activities. The most profound sense of happiness is experienced through the "meaningful life", achieved if one exercises one's uniques strengths and virtues in a purpose greater than one's own immediate goals.
2007-11-02 21:07:00 · answer #4 · answered by S A 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Happiness is all in your mind...
When you lost all the psychological burden and feel free...
2007-11-02 21:07:19 · answer #5 · answered by Aryo 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Happiness is wanting what you get, success is getting what you want....
2007-11-02 21:01:09 · answer #6 · answered by rodsdan 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
HAPPINESS IS TO START LOVING YOUR SELF FIRST,THEN YOU COULD LOVE OTHERS.AND HAPPINESS IS NOT ABOUT MONEY EITHER.ITS PEACE NO MORE WAR.
2007-11-02 21:09:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
no way happyness is an emotion it stays inside of you(if your lucky)
2007-11-02 21:05:55 · answer #8 · answered by Carla E 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
hapiness is self fulfillment and being at peace with yourself..
2007-11-02 21:08:15 · answer #9 · answered by J. W. H 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋