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<h1>THE SCIENCE OF HAPPINESS</h1>Positive psychology not only takes us from zero to the positive but also strengthens our immune system and makes us more resilient when dealing with the negative thoughts and emotions.Human strengths that act as buffers against mental illness include courage, optimism, honesty, hope, work ethic, future mindedness, interpersonal skill, faith, perseverance, the capacity for flow, insight among many more.Learning optimism prevents depression and anxiety in both children and adults. It stirs prevention of most forms of abuses or problems that people face in their lively neighbourhoods. These kind of problems if not controlled may put them at great risk hence effective prevention is not always remedial; but it consists of identifying and amplifying the strengths that the individuals already possess.&nbsp;<h2>AIM OF POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY</h2>The aim of positive psychology is mainly to shift the pendulum. It aims to catalyse the change in psychology from a pre-occupation only with repairing the worse things in life in addition to building the strengths and best qualities in life.&nbsp;Positive psychology brings the empirical foundation and links it with the accessibility to the general public.&nbsp;<h3>QUESTION</h3>How can we help ourselves, other individuals, communities and societies to become happier?The permission to be human&nbsp;- this involves accepting the emotions whether negative or positive. Negative emotions help us develop cognitive and emotional flexibility. One can lose the flexibility later on when he or she suppress the emotions.The difference between us adults and babies is that babies feel and experience emotions because it comes natural to them as adults we suppress it and pay a price for it.What we need is unconditional acceptance or self regard when it comes to our emotions. Lack of acceptance to negative emotions like anxiety, anger, depression that one experiences creates a sign of abnormality.Experience every kind of emotion to the extreme for&nbsp; it is okay and natural. You will feel envy, anger, ecstasy and joy. If we allow ourselves to experience these emotions, the paradox is we experience less of it.Denying how we feel when asked contributes to depression. When you feel like crying cry, when happy laugh or smile.&nbsp;Emotion vs behaviour&nbsp;- this is an active kind of acceptance. A great example is feeling anxious before an audience, where you have a choice to act in accordance to the emotion or not. Another example is when you become envious towards your friend because he or she is succeeding. You may then chose to put them down or to continue being generous towards them (choosing how to behave after experiencing an emotion).&nbsp; Simplifying activities&nbsp;- includes things like gratitude, appreciation of the good in your life, doing meditation and allowing the feelings you experience to stay inside. Stress can lead to depression. This is caused by having so much to do which may result to stress caused by of the feeling of overwhelm. Too much stress often leads to depression. To reverse the trend of depression, we need to end reduce stress, feeling overwhelmed and plan our activities in order of difficulty and priority.Learning to say no means we say yes to ourselves. Do less not more(quantity affects quality, time affluence versus material affluence), the need for recovery.Helping people simplify their lives which reduces their stress levels, would enrich their relationships greatly not excluding the positive aspects of their lives which will be enriched accordingly.Simplification of one's life - doing less rather than more, has a positive effect on their relationships depending on the physical <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Mulish; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">elements, spiritual elements and also life in general.Doing less makes us successful. Taking some time off refreshes our levels of productivity and creativity.&nbsp;The importance of finding meaning and pleasure in our lives&nbsp;- you cannot sustain happiness only with pleasure or meaning. Goals that align with our values and interests enables us to achieve meaning and pleasure and to sustain a long, healthy and happy relationship.How can we lead a meaningful and pleasurable life What we can have in our lives are on the micro-level happiness boosters, these are activities anywhere from three minutes to five hours. They are both meaningful and pleasurable, it could be spending time working very hard during the week and not liking the job, then spend a few hours with your family on a weekend.Research shows that those people who can outline their set of goals that will represent their implicit interest and values are indeed able to function more efficiently and integrate well across most areas of their lives.&nbsp;This is because the activities they do on the weekends(when they are not at work) have a push, but people enjoy a pull since it motivates them to get through the days more pleasantly with more fun.&nbsp;Relationships- most people in relationships don't realise the potential that lies in a relationship.As stated by John Goltman, long term relationships are not relationships where everything is just smooth and great but there is ups and downs. Therefore, for every five positive experiences there is one negative experience. Not everything is smooth in a great relationship, there are conflicts and disagreements that provide growth and learning opportunities about the other person and you.&nbsp;<h3>KEYS TO ACCENTUATE THE POSITIVE</h3>Show interest&nbsp;- research shows that relationships where the partners know one another, where they have the love maps of each other, come out stronger from depression. In contrast, partners who don't know or study each other well come out weaker as a couple. You must study one another and seek to know what your partner likes and what they don't.Pay compliments&nbsp;- compliment your partner again and again for they need nurturing, they need emotional support more than anything from people who are most close to. Put aside time for love, a date sounds good especially in today's busy world. If we do not make time for relationships in most situations and don't make it a ritual, it's not going to happen. The little things like touch, celebrating anniversaries and so on, makes a relationship work in the long run and it also builds up the passion to love one another.The importance of a relationship is being known rather than being validated based on ones differences in a relationship.When both partners become themselves over time, they become more and more intimate.Being known rather than validated puts off pressure by enabling partners to open up where they share, reveal themselves which is not an easy feat. This allows them to expose their fears and insecurities. It is about saying what each of them want and being assertive in respectful ways to sustain and grow their passion. It is important to express ourselves clearly rather than constantly trying to impress.Exercise and meditation&nbsp;- exercise helps in terms of cognitive functioning , self esteem and strong immune system. Our body has a need for physical exercise and if we frustrate a need, we pay a price whether physical or psychological.Meditation impacts the person in this stressful modern world positively. It decreases anxiety and changes ones mood much more than positive emotions. It helps a person to be active with positive moods or emotions and brings about higher levels of resilience. Meditation makes people move more susceptibly towards positive emotions and become more resilient towards negative ones. It changes how the brain functions and strengthens the immune system to generate more antibodies. Therefore, happiness is largely contingent on our state of mind rather than our status or the status of our bank account. Learn to fail or fail to learn. Failing is part of growth. Learning to focus on positive things.&nbsp;<h3>HOW TO OVERCOME THE INCLINATION TO ADAPT TO POSITIVE THINGS</h3>Gratitude When we become thankful for something, we no longer take it for granted. Be thankful for big things or little things, it could be a meal, a family and God. The key is to do it mindfully and focus on it to re-experience the emotion that goes along with the things you are grateful for. Gratitude improves physical health.&nbsp; Five dependent measures on gratitude<ol><li>Gratitude makes people optimistic</li><li>Gratitude brings happiness</li><li>Gratitude creates generosity</li><li>Gratitude enables individuals to be benevolent toward other people</li><li>Gratitude enables people to achieve their goals&nbsp;</li></ol>Being thankful creates a new schema in the mind that we don't ignore good things during the day. Taking things positively rather than taking things for granted is an antidote to what's going on culturally and around the world. The experience of gratitude transforms anxiety, how focusing on things for which we are grateful actually leads to heart coherence - a much healthier state of existence and if we do it regularly, it becomes more than a norm as opposed to the fight or flight which is the norm today that causes chaos and anxiety. 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