How do I find happiness?

Happiness is a mental state associated with positive emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. Many sources have devoted a lot of time into understanding it more fully, for various religious, biological, psychological and philosophical reasons, and the enigma that surrounds 'what is happiness' has led to many studies into its properties. We might attain it.
Positive psychology is the study and endeavourment of the applications of happiness to define what it is and how we might go about attaining it. Religious and philosophical leaders define happiness as having a good life and/or flourishing, rather than simply just an emotion. Happiness economics is a suggestion that public happiness should be measured and used when supplementing traditional economic measures when evaluating the success of public policy.

Contrary to popular belief, various studies have found that the typical things attributed with happiness - money, the weather, and education etc. - don't affect a persons mood in the same that many of us expect. Indeed, it has been found that human beings are at their happiest when experiencing pleasure (i.e. Hearty meals, nice long warm baths), engaging in an enjoyable yet challenging activity, finding themselves in all manner of relationships as social connections have been found to be a more than reliable indicator of happiness, meaning - which means having a perceived 'quest' or a feeling of belonging to something bigger, and last but not least, realizing tangible goals, or accomplishments.

how to be happy and feeling good about yourself

Feeling good about yourself

If you have low self esteem you will have a poor self opinion and this will affect every aspect of your life especially your ability to socialise and communicate with other people. This of course means that poor social performance will negatively affect you at work and in daily life lowering your self confidence at the same time. How can you reverse this downward trend and begin to feel good about yourself?

First you need to see and understand that there are lots of good reasons to feel positive about yourself.

Be grateful for what you have. Learn to love and appreciate what you have now before chasing new things you think will make you happy. If you are not happy now with all that you have why do you believe you will be happy with what you gain in the future?

Remember your achievements no matter how small. Everybody has done amazing things in their life and you are no exception. What are your major achievements?

How to Be Happy 

 This is gonna feel good.

1. Sit up straight.
2. Let your face come alive.
3. Smile as big as you enjoyably can.
4. If nothing else, look interested.
5. Grin, chuckle and laugh more.
6. Move energetically.
7. Touch your face the way you do when you're happy.

Remember you cannot be happy unless you follow most of these instructions!!

1. Play some "feel good" music.
2. Start thinking that happiness is a fact of everyone's life and it would be silly to change that.
3. Think about the happiest moment in your life.
4. Think about the greatest sense of success you've ever felt.
5. Think about a time the world seemed the kindest, when you were determined to NEVER give up.
6. If these are separate times, fuse them all together. Make it so they all happened at once.
7. Now relive them. Actually go through it again, down to the words and the actions.
8. Imagine yourself there again. Feel the joy again. Don't let your defenses separate you from the fun of it. It's happening. You feel great!
9. Read Chicken Soup for the Soul, Touched by an Angel and your favorite comic strip. Boy does that make you feel great or what???
10. Make healthy fun and happiness "today" a top priority.
11. Think about how unfair life is. Think about things you have that some others don't have. Thank God for wonderful gifts like your eyes, your thumbs, your dog & your friends.
12. Think about something bad going on in your world, then think "whats the healthiest thing I can do to make that a little better? Think till you get an answer. Then do it!
13. Think about something you have to do but hate to do, and then start thinking about what there is to really enjoy in this thing you must do. All the time you are doing this thing that you have to do but hate to do, focus on whats to enjoy anyways.
14. Return to the here and now. Think about how this exercise affected you. Can you do it once a day? Can you go through this much joy every day? Can you go through this almost continuously?