There are multiple feelings, moods, and senses that people use every day. Two of the primary feelings used is sadness and happiness. The feeling that everyone probably wants to experience 100 percent of the time is happiness, never sadness. But, being 100 percent happy all the time is not good for one's health. Happiness is the key to a healthy, long life but is not required all of the time. Bad feelings, such as anger and sadness, play a beneficial role in human development, and positive psychology assumes sadness and anger can cause harm.
In Martin Seligman and other’s article “A Balanced Psychology and a Full Life,” he states that the definition of happiness, “Is a condition over and above the absence of unhappiness” (Seligman et al 1379).
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In “Don’t Worry Be Gloomy” David clarifies, “Negative moods summon a more attentive, accommodating thinking style that leads [him/her] to really examine facts in a fresh and creative way”(125). Being sad or angry can lead to better realizing an outcome of something or having a better focus on a task. Seligman and others explains in “A Balanced Psychology and a Full Life” that “In 1946, there were no effective treatments for any of the psychological disorders, whereas now we can cure two and treat another 12 via psychotherapy and/or pharmacology”(Seligman 1993).The point is that the disorders are harmful, but they can be treated by medicines and actions of the …show more content…
David says, “An excess of freewheeling giddiness and a relative absence of more sober emotions can even be a marker for mania, a dangerous symptom of psychological illness” (124). Negative emotions have copious amounts of bad feelings but can also give people a more balanced life.
These states might be unpleasant at times, but sadness and anger can actually have a beneficial role in human development. Sad emotions, anger issues, and guilt sometimes can bring some cases of positive outcomes. David states in his article that there is good news about the value of bad moods such as, “Helping [one] form arguments...improving [one’s] memory...encourage perseverance...up [his or her] generosity...and [boosting one's] ability to reason”(126). Being upset can help with forming arguments because one is more aware of making
Happiness is the positive emotion and contentment one feels naturally. Many Psychology studies have been concluded to display what pure happiness is. In the article, “In Pursuit of Unhappiness” by Darrin M. McMahon, he indicates that happiness cannot be forced. In the article, McMahon mentions a philosopher, John Stuart Mill, who acknowledges as well, that happiness can not be forced. He says that if one focuses on something other than their own happiness, happiness will come to them naturally. By what Mill says, people should be encouraged that happiness will come to them and can not force happiness to them. Another example is Jeffrey Kluger’s article, “The Happiness of Pursuit”, he talks about how people focus on never being happy. He says,
People push being happy on society as a total must in life; sadness is not an option. However, the research that has conducted to the study of happiness speaks otherwise. In this essay Sharon Begley's article "Happiness: Enough Already" critiques and analyzes societies need to be happy and the motivational affects it has on life. Begley believes that individuals do not always have to be happy, and being sad is okay and even good for us. She brings in the research of other professionals to build her claim that extreme constant happiness is not good for people. I strongly agree that we need to experience sadness to build motivation in life and character all around.
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Happiness and sadness have a very interesting relationship. Many philosophers have taken this view point and gone deep into the idea to find out what is really true about it. Some say that if you have never felt sad, then you would never know whether or not you are truly happy, because of this some see that teaching and think of it in a fairly depressing light. Though it is not to say that they can’t exist separately, without sadness there would not be true happiness. This idea is a very interesting topic because there are very few people who can go through their lives and not be unhappy for at least a brief period of time. There are countless ways that somebody could become unhappy. To name a few, one could lose a family member, end
Happiness is a feeling that everyone tries to accomplish, yet some people sometimes only capture portions of it. In Brian Doyle essay, “Irreconcilable Dissonance,” he explains that divorce is becoming common among many couples today. Most couples are putting less effort into making a relationship/marriage work. There are many couples who get married, and most of them know that if the marriage does not work that divorce is always an option. With divorce in their back of their mind they lack the true meaning of having a happy marriage. In Eduardo Porter essay, “What Is Happiness,” Porter states that happiness is determined by people’s qualities in their life. People who experience a positive viewpoint on life and about others are overall to
All of our emotions play a big role in our lives. Even though it does not feel like it at the moment, negative feelings can be a good thing.If we never become sad, angry, or scared we would not be able to appreciate the true value of happiness, we would only focus on ourselves and happiness, and we would become less alert to threats and dangerous situations around us.
can be noticed by people around them. If these emotions do continue, illness can result.
The emotions associated by an environment enable personal growth over a lifetime. Negative emotions like hopelessness, anger and sadness all influence and alter people deeply, leaving them
How would you define happiness? “Is happiness one of many things a person can value or is happiness what “valuing” means?” Gilbert asks this question when deciding what the real meaning of happiness is. Is it something that comes naturally, or is it something that you have to learn to be? Gilbert explains that there are three different types of happiness, emotional happiness, moral happiness, and judgmental happiness. Each of these types have different meanings that you might think you know, but in reality it is so hard to define
In the article, “In Pursuit of Unhappiness”, it claims that “the enjoyments of life (such was now my theory) are sufficient to make it a pleasant thing, when they are taken en passant, without being made a principal object” (Mill). As Mill stated happiness can be anywhere and when you are least expecting it, could appear. For example, many religions worship a god that helps them know how to fulfill their lives with respect and value. When overwhelming troubles stand in individuals’ ways, to overcome the stress, what are needed are a deep breath and a look at the things around them. Unexpectedly, events may arise changing the mood of so many people, however, even when something has importance, it will always be outranked by another priority.
Happiness is not easy to define. A good life has one characteristic – happiness. Happiness can be defined as pleasure, joy, contentment and satisfaction. Understandings of how to be happy were changing throughout the history. Aristotle who lived in 4th century BC in Athens and Schopenhauer who is19th century philosopher from Germany have contrasting understanding of happiness. In this essay I will argue that Aristotle and Schopenhauer provide accounts of happiness that are useful to contemporary society. The reason for this is that happiness is universal and people’s ways to achieve it did not changed tremendously over times.
Emotion Revealed Frank Alonso COM3404 - Nonverbal Communication Prof. Sabrina Vollrath-Bueno Florida International University September 2014 What are the emotion functions in our lives? How do they play an important role in ourselves and determine how we behave? Emotions are so important in our lives, they have the potential to give us a delicate and sophisticate internal guidance, also warn us when a human need has not been met. They are such a valuable source of information and help us to make decisions based on what we are feeling, predicting our own and others’ behavior, as well as alerting ourselves when a person’s behavior make us uncomfortable. Emotions are a tremendous way of non-verbal communication with others; a face
Real happiness is more than brief positive feelings but rather a lasting state of peace or contentedness. According to Reich, a former professor of psychology at Arizona State University, happiness is “deeper than a momentary good mood” (Reich). When ordinary happiness is experienced, Jacobsen, a professor in the Department
Throughout history, philosophers and scientists of various kinds have been trying to define happiness, identify its causes and the obstacles to reaching it. According to Jon Gertner, psychologist Gilbert and economist Loewenstein have succeeded in pointing out several reasons why people are unhappy (pp: 444-6). It is important to note that according to Gilbert, it is not that people cannot g...
Negative emotion can also be toxic. Examples of unhealthy negative emotions are depression, anxiety, guilt and anger. These emotions promote destructive actions and behavior. When children develop negative behavior they lead to doing destructive actions. If the children continue to do the destructive action, it leads to negative consequences. Negative emotions can lead to serious health problems. Building emotions of rage and hatred in the mind affect the body process. Content feeling of negative emotions can take an effect on the body forming high level of stress, anxiety and high blood levels. If you have symptoms of high level of stress, anxiety and high blood levels you may have a heart attack. Unhealthy negative emotions stop the individual’s ability to have