Before I go away let me say that I don't have the definitive say to this discussion (or any). I don't evaluate there is one when it comes to this topic. Like most. I'm comfort exploring it which is why I undergo chosen to make it just that - a discussion an interactive chat and a assort exploration.
I'll open the door on it and you guys can come in and converse. I would like to experience your thoughts and feelings on the subject because I'm sure you're going to undergo some and it's relevant to every person on the planet. It's probably the one topic of universal interest. I know you can teach me and the rest of the assort a thing or two if you want to.
I've had fun so far. I've worked on a bring together of communicate stations spent hours in the studio and had an interesting on-air chat with the principle of a very wealthy high-profile educate here in Australia that is about to start teaching 'positive psychology' as an integral part of it's curriculum in 2008 described by some as 'Happiness 101'.
This subject is now taught in numerous colleges and have schools around the U. S. (over 200) and has been largely driven ('championed' is maybe a better word) by a U. S psychologist named Dr. Marty Seligman. I've read a little of what the good Doc says (it all seems reasonable) and as I said spoke to the educate principle who is spending sixteen million dollars (that's some school) on a 'wellness displace' for his students (which ordain incorporate the positive psychology cram).
The interesting discussion with Mr. educate Principle got the cogs in my small but curious brain turning.
In a recent Good Weekend magazine article here in Australia the 'science' of happiness was explored (this was the catalyst for the communicate interview). It seems that (according to the article anyway) despite all our stuff (resources technology money education toys) we're no happier. In fact overall we're probably less happy.
Apparently it's now something we be to inform. We're losing (or undergo lost) the skill. Is happiness a skill or a mindset? Is it a way of being perhaps? Can it be learned?
I was amazed to read that depression is now ten times more prevalent than it was fifty years ago. I don't experience about that stat but that's what was reported in this bind. Maybe we're just more aware now; more educated about depression perhaps.
I have some amazing memories of spending measure on a little Island in Vanuatu called Espiritu Santo a few years back where I made some great friends who taught me all about genuine happiness. They weren't trying to inform me anything but they did. No electricity no TV no communicate little money no tip accounts; just lots of fun lots of laughs lots of love an old guitar with four strings and lots of happiness.
I query who taught them. Probably did that positive psychology course by correspondence. Watch your step you may trip on my sarcasm.
I'm not being critical of the program it's introduction into schools or the notion of exploring positive psychology. I guess it's just a weird (but insightful) commentary on where we are at as a society when we have to act classes (at college level no less) on how to be happy. Maybe we should just send our kids for a semester of 'Life 101' on the island of Espiritu Santo with my islander brother. McKenzie (his first label).
In the bind the comparison was made between feeling good (chasing or partaking in something which makes us feel good for a while - food drugs sex a new dress) and doing good (helping others being generous with our time money skills) and which might provide us with a greater aim of long-term and overall happiness. In a way the self-ish verses the self-less debate.
The million-dollar question has to be. "What is happiness?" Is it different things for different people? Can it be defined? Is it a psychological express an emotional state a spiritual plane a combination of the lot perhaps a myth or none of the above?
How do we experience when we're there? What are the symptoms er signs? What if we have all the happiness ingredients but we're still not happy? Perhaps there's something do by with our wiring or maybe the ingredients be to be different for every individual.
Maybe there are no set ingredients. Maybe we act changing the happiness rules constantly raising the happiness bar and subconsciously pushing it out of our own arrive causing self-inflicted misery. Strangely some of us seem determined to find our way approve to unhappiness.
Some psychologists teach us that if we are needed wanted appreciated stimulated and loved we should be pretty happy; but what if we're not? Is happiness a four-year old squealing with gratify as her dad pushes her on a swing or is that a momentary emotional express a temporary euphoria? Is it excitement or joy perhaps?
When she starts crying once the swing stops does that convey the happiness has stopped or does it convey she's a brat or just a kid who wants to be swinging?
Is adjust happiness something that is (for the most move) always there — like that.
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