Many people today are very unhappy. There can be many reasons why, but the solutions are found in understanding the basics of what makes us happy and fulfilled.
Behavioral scientists have spent a lot of time studying what makes us happy (and what doesn’t). We know happiness can predict health and longevity, and happiness scales can be used to measure social progress and the success of public policies. But happiness isn’t something that just happens to you. Everyone has the power to make small changes in our behavior, our surroundings, and our relationships that can help set us on course for a happier life.
In this exciting course, you will learn the secrets to happiness. If you do the exercises and commit to changing, yo will see a massive increase in your "Happiness Quotient".
The Happiness Paradigm: Making Life Better
Understanding Positivity, Happiness and Emotional Intelligence
The Neuroscience of Happiness
Sowing the Seeds for Happiness
Cultivating Positivity Intentionally
Adjusting Your Perspectives and Setpoints
Balance & Eliminating the Negatives
Passion & Self-Care
Flourish: The PERMA V Foundation
Vibes, Experiences & Relationships
Meaning, Goals, Success & Summary
Having a GREAT DREAM
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Happiness, in the context of mental or emotional states, is positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. Other forms include life satisfaction, well-being, subjective well-being, flourishing and eudaimonia.
Since the 1960s, happiness research has been conducted in a wide variety of scientific disciplines, including gerontology, social psychology and positive psychology, clinical and medical research and happiness economics.
Self-Fulfilment Theories
Maslow's hierarchy of needs
Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a pyramid depicting the levels of human needs, psychological, and physical. When a human being ascends the steps of the pyramid, self-actualization is reached. Beyond the routine of needs fulfillment, Maslow envisioned moments of extraordinary experience, known as peak experiences, profound moments of love, understanding, happiness, or rapture, during which a person feels more whole, alive, self-sufficient, and yet a part of the world. This is similar to the flow concept of Mihály Csíkszentmihályi. The concept of flow is the idea that after our basic needs are met we can achieve greater happiness by altering our consciousness by becoming so engaged in a task that we lose our sense of time. Our intense focus causes us to forget any other issues, which in return promotes positive emotions.
Erich Fromm
Fromm said "Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence: the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self. In spending his energy productively he increases his powers, he „burns without being consumed.""
Modernization and freedom of choice
Ronald Inglehart has traced cross-national differences in the level of happiness based on data from the World Values Survey. He finds that the extent to which a society allows free choice has a major impact on happiness. When basic needs are satisfied, the degree of happiness depends on economic and cultural factors that enable free choice in how people live their lives. Happiness also depends on religion in countries where free choice is constrained.
Positive psychology
Since 2000 the field of positive psychology has expanded drastically in terms of scientific publications and has produced many different views on causes of happiness, and on factors that correlate with happiness. Numerous short-term self-help interventions have been developed and demonstrated to improve happiness.
In this course, you will understand Happiness and how to achieve it from the Emotional Intelligence perspective.
