Happiness☺

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What Is Happiness

 Is it just a smile upon your face Or is it your heart at fast pace Is it the warmth within you Or is it the exciting shivers overdue

Is it a warm puppy Or is it the sight of newborn guppy Is it reuniting with your cousin every year Or is it having an A report card appear What is happiness  Is it a feeling Is it a thing Things may make us happy But happiness is not a thing -me

Looking up Happiness in the dictionary can be very hard. After all, there are eight different definitions. After gathering resourceful information, let's see if we will be able to answer the simple question of: **What is happiness? ** The world may never know, but we can get close. Happiness can be considered a state of mind or feeling characterized by contentment, love, satisfaction, pleasure or joy. Human relationships are usually found to be the most important association with human happiness. Studies have shown that happiness within a social network can spread from person to person. Someone loved being happy can lead to your own happiness.

Other research in the U.S. has shown that older americans tend to be happier than younger individuals. While older adults reported more health problems, they reported fewer problems overall. Younger people were reported to have more anger, anxiety, depression, financial problems, troubled relationships and career stress. To learn more about anger go to:Anger☻ From this research we can conclude that you can still be happy with health problems as long as you are not depressed about it. Although health doesn't always lead to happiness, happiness can lead to health. In a 2008 review of studies on happiness, the Dutch found that happiness appears to protect against illness. Positive emotions have also been linked to a lower risk of specific diseases. Those higher in positive emotions, seem to have significantly lower blood pressures. People who are generally hopeful are less likely to develop hypertension, diabetes, or respiratory tract infection than those who are less hopeful. Generally, curious people have a lower risk of getting hypertension and diabetes.


 * Myths about happiness: **  People tend to be poor judges of what will make them happy. While most people say they want to be happy, they often believe in myths or carry assumptions that actually get in the way of achieving happiness.
 * Money can buy happiness .  Money and material things cannot buy happiness. Research by the economist Richard Easterlin shows that people in poor countries are happier when their basic necessities are covered. But any money beyond that doesn't make much difference in happiness level.
 * Being young and physically attractive makes you happy. <span style="color: #ff00c9; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Being young and physically attractive has little or no connection to happiness.
 * <span style="color: #ffb300; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Having children increases your happiness. <span style="color: #ff00c9; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Having children also does not increase your chance at being happy. Their day-to-day care can be demanding and can increase stress, financial pressures, and marriage strife.

Research has identified some things that correspond with a person feeling happy.
 * <span style="color: #d22919; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Facts about happiness: **
 * <span style="color: #ff0032; font-family: Georgia,serif;">relationships and social interactions
 * <span style="color: #ff0032; font-family: Georgia,serif;">marital status
 * <span style="color: #ff0032; font-family: Georgia,serif;">employment
 * <span style="color: #ff0032; font-family: Georgia,serif;">democratic freedom
 * <span style="color: #ff0032; font-family: Georgia,serif;">optimism
 * <span style="color: #ff0032; font-family: Georgia,serif;">endorphins released through physical exercise
 * <span style="color: #ff0032; font-family: Georgia,serif;">religious involvement

<span style="color: #f17f0e; font-family: Georgia,serif;">In an interview with a psychology graduate student, I learned that happiness is different for everyone and how it is achieved is different for everyone also. It all depends on what makes <span style="color: #f13b13; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">you <span style="color: #f17f0e; font-family: Georgia,serif;">happy and what <span style="color: #f13b13; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">you <span style="color: #f17f0e; font-family: Georgia,serif;">like to do.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #f13b13; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 14.56px; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life." <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #f13b13; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 104%; text-align: center;">-Albert Camus <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 104%; line-height: 17px; text-align: center;">__☚go back__ <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,sans-serif;">