HAPPI

NESS
1. Definition of happiness.
- Happiness is an emotional state characterized by feelings of joy, satisfaction,
contentment ( sự mãn nguyện, hài lòng) , and fulfillment( sự tận tâm).
- It is often described as involving positive emotions and life satisfaction.
- Happiness means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections (sự ko hoàn
hảo).
- Happiness is a combination of how satisfied you are with your life and how good
you feel on a daily basis.
- Happiness is a skill you can build with consistent practice.
- Happiness is the knowledge that someone cares for someone. It is the feeling that if
everything else goes wrong in the life, that love won’t change.
2. Benefits of happiness.
- Positive emotions increase satisfaction with life.
- Happiness helps people build stronger coping skills and emotional resources.
- Positive emotions are linked to better health and longevity.
- Positive feelings increase resilience. Resilience helps people better manage stress
and bounce back better when faced with setbacks.
3. How to recognize happiness
Explore your interests and passions
Engage in prosocial and altruistic causes
Work to address injustices
Look for new things you might want to learn more about
Feeling like you are living the life you wanted
Feeling that the conditions of your life are good
Feeing that you have accomplished (or will accomplish) what you want in life
Feeling satisfied with your life
Feeling positive more than negative
4. How to be happy
- Help someone who needs it.
- Spend time doing something to brighten the day of someone you love.
- Email someone and thank them for something they did for you.
- Have a meaningful conversation with good friends.
- Savor a memory- closes your eyes and relieves the happiness moment of your life.
- Engage in an activity that enjoyable, and is just enough of a challenge that you can
feel and lose all sense of time.
- Practice empathy, meditate on this.
- Pursue Intrinsic Goals.
- Enjoy the Moment.
- Reframe Negative Thoughts.
- Increase happiness in long run: helping others, having new experiences, nurturing
relationships, being grateful for what you have.
- Savor your happy experiences.
- Make time for friends , the power of gratitude.