Cleveland, Ohio Ecstasy, by definition, is a powerful explosion of joy. But this interpretation does not seem to hold the sentiment. Even the word itself cannot convey its meaning in human feelings.
It is confidential. Hard to understand means sharing photos of the most beautiful places to see in person. The image is beautiful, but the reality is more than that.
And happiness has a great impact on our health.
A 6-year-old boy is very happy when Santa brings him what he wants on Christmas morning. Holding your newborn baby for the first time. It's watching your dog run slowly across the field, flap its ears in the air, or dance to music to make your body vibrate.
This is a large field of cherry blossoms or sunflowers. This is uncontrollable laughter. Ananda is everything.
Happiness does not only affect our emotional state, scientists are studying that happiness causes physical changes.
The subtle characteristics of happiness are difficult to study, which is why psychologists have ignored them for years.
Many people have tried it, and their findings can help us all bring more joy into our lives, simply by recognizing the sparks of joy we find in our most ordinary days. In turn, the joy and happiness with it makes us healthy.
In her 2018 book Happy, author Ingrid Vettel Lee says that there are everyday things and moments that spark happiness, and by finding them and focusing on them intentionally, we can bring more joy into our everyday lives.
"Positive emotions that make us smile"
Lee, who began his career as an art design student, asked, "How do material things make us happy?" Anand began to learn by asking questions.
In his TED talk, Lee defined happiness as "moments of positive emotions that make us smile, laugh, and jump." Jumping is also technical. One way scientists measure happiness is the urge to jump, he said.
"This is different from happiness, which measures how well we feel over time. Right now, Anand feels good."
As a culture, Lee says, we seek happiness by looking for promotions or relationships or homes that ultimately make us feel satisfied, not living in the present and "we long for the happiness we once had." it has. all the time
Lee asked people of all ages from different parts of the world to identify what makes them happy.
He found that the things that bring about personal happiness may seem different, but they all share several common characteristics. He called these ten qualities the beauty of joy: energy, abundance, freedom, harmony, play, wonder, transcendence, magic, celebration, and renewal.
Like soap bubbles, rainbows, confetti, ice cream, balloons, children, summer holidays and holiday celebrations bring joy to people around the world. And he suggested that we can be happy by surrounding ourselves with things that make us happy.
"The physical world can be a powerful resource in shaping our happy and healthy lives," he told the audience in a TED talk.
If anyone embodies the principle of surrounding yourself with things that make you happy, it's Harriet Allen. At 85, Allen is energetic, active and full of life. He volunteers every week, teaches taijiquan, hosts community dinners and earns the most frequent library user award. He describes himself as a living person, and this classification seems particularly appropriate.
He lives alone in a modest house on the hills of Shaker Heights in the Lomond neighborhood, which makes him happy. Bookcases are stocked with books, mirrors and magazine clippings are plastered on the walls, and a fireplace is by the window sill.
He removed closets, cupboards and doors in almost every room. He hung a lampshade over the bed to see the stars and clouds, and drilled a hole behind the wooden stairs to display a painting on the outside wall.
He can see the goldfish in the water from his living room window, which is mirrored outside the garden.
"I don't put things out of sight, because if I can't see them, how can I respect them?" he said.
He says that when he moved into the house decades ago, everything was black and white; With colorful, hand-painted walls and shelves full of art and knick-knacks.
“The thing is, if something suddenly moves, I grab it and it's like a new adventure. all right! he said. "It was amazing when I went to the bookshelf and found a book I couldn't remember."
Lee says in his book that certain qualities of happiness may resonate more strongly than others depending on the individual's circumstances.
Alan is passionate about nature and the things that give him a sense of freedom, openness and space. She loves subtle, fun and bright colors that add life and energy to a space. But those in deeply troubled families may be happy with things that inspire peace and harmony.
Allen realizes that his most prized possessions—the things that make him happy—can be nothing but trash to other people. He told how he teased his daughter by saying that, and the girl replied, "Well, not all of them," Allen laughed.
Focus more on positive emotions
Finding joy in the things and places around us is synonymous with becoming more mindful and aware in our daily lives and is not a new concept. Mindfulness practices, including meditation, journaling, gratitude, and self-affirmation, are a variety of ways to help us pay more attention to the things that make us feel positive.
And while there isn't much literature on the unique link between health and happiness, there is plenty of scientific evidence that mindfulness reduces stress, lowers blood pressure, and has many other health benefits.
One reason is that our brains are wired to remember negative experiences more strongly than positive ones, says Rick Hansen, a psychologist and happiness researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, and author of Buddha's Brain.
"The mind is like Velcro for negative experiences and Teflon for positive experiences," Hansen said in an interview with the Great Good podcast.
Negative thoughts and worries can help us avoid harm, but they often don't work, says Hansen. Repeated negative experiences activate the sympathetic nervous system, the fight-or-flight mode, and over time the brain stays there, interpreting everything around us as a threat.
And this is very harmful to our health. Chronic stress is widely believed to have negative health effects, including changes in the immune system, headaches, heart disease, weight gain, anxiety and depression, memory and learning difficulties, and more.
The antidote to all these negative thoughts is happiness. The strong positive emotions we experience during happy times activate the parasympathetic nervous system; It is a system that reverses our fight or flight response, calms us and makes us feel calm and safe.
The more we find joy, the more we focus on positive experiences, we are combating anxiety and the anti-negativity bias built into our nervous system, albeit slowly. It takes five positive experiences to overcome one negative one, says Hansen, which is why our focus on happiness is so important.
"It sounds simple, but if you eat a good amount of food several times a day, it will probably make a lasting difference to your nervous system within a few days," says Hansen.
When it comes to happiness, Lee says, we don't have to look far. Happiness is always around us, and if you start noticing it, you will see it everywhere. And while we might think those little sparks of joy are unnecessary, Lee says they're actually vital because our shared experiences in the physical world remind us of the common humanity we need. :
"The very divided and politicized world we live in sometimes makes our differences so great that they become insurmountable. But behind that, there's a part of each of us that finds joy in the same things," Lee said.
"Deep down, we all have a desire to find happiness in those around us, and we have a reason for it. There is no exaggeration of happiness. It is directly related to our survival instinct. At a basic level, the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of life."
Gretchen Kroen Horse covers health care expenses for cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer .
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