What is your definition of happiness?

Research in the field of positive psychology and happiness often define a happy person as someone who experiences frequent positive emotions,such as joy,interest,and pride,and infrequent (though not absent) negative emotions,such as sadness,anxi and anger .Happiness has also been said to relate to life satisfaction,appreciation of life,moments of pleasure,but overall it has to do with the positive experience of emotions.

The key to these definitions is that positive emotions do not indicate the absence of negative emotions.A happy person experience the spectrum of emotions just like anybody else,but the requency by which they experience the negative ones may differ.It could be that happy people don't experience as much negativ emotion because they process it differently or they may find meaning in a way others have not.in fact,using the phrase happy person is probably incorrect because it assumes that they are naturally happy or that positive things happen to them more often.Nobody is immune to life's stressors ,but the question is whether you see those stressors as moments of opposition or moments of opportunity.


Research of where you are on the happiness spectrum,each person has their own way of defining happiness.philosophers,actors,politicians,and everybody in between have all weighed in on their own view of happiness.Read some of our favourite definitions below and let us know what resonated with you.





Narin