Happiness and Health

Dr. Anu Mehta

Happiness

Hap= Luck

Happ= by chance

Happy= Luck +Y= Lucky

Ness= Nose = State Off

State Of Feeling Lucky

HAPPINESS IS A RATIO OF

POSITIVE TO NEGATIVE FEELING

Everything depends

on state of happiness

and unhappiness

Safe

confident

co-operate easily

tolerant

positive

socially connected

live energised

healthier

satisfied life creative

playful

when you are Happy

smile more

stay happy married for a longer time

earn more moneybetter relationships

better self-image

hope for better future

helpful

more satisfied

GOOD FEEL,DO GOOD

PHENOMENA

DO A RANDOM

ACT OF KINDNESS

Emotional ups and downs

Emotional ups and downsAdam Kramer, one of the three Facebook data scientists who wrote a controversial study that proved that positive and negative moods can be transferred across the social network ,

In the experiment , Facebook tweaked the algorithms of nearly 700,000 unwitting Facebook users, causing people to see an abnormally low number of either positive or negative posts. People who saw more negative posts would write more negative posts themselves, and vice versa, proving that their mood was being affected by the kinds of things they were reading on Facebook.

Emotional ups and downs

Adam Kramer, found that most positive day were

Friday

Saturday

Emotional ups and downs

Adam Kramer, found that in long run our emotional ups and downs balance out

Emotional ups and downs

Adam Kramer, found that in positive

emotions rise over early and middle part of

most of the days and then it drops off

Water in it’s stable form

We all want to unite and congregate with a companion and create marriage, family, nation.

At the end there has to be enjoyment and satisfaction in marriage, family,

nation, career, which then create inner peace

PEACE IS

LOST

HAPPINESS IS

LOST

EMOTIONAL DESTRESS - UDIN

Mood downers

ARGUMENT

A Sick Child

A car Breakdown

ABUSE

Conscious Mind Subconscious Mind

What I want?

Why I want?

How I want?

When I will get ?

Command Execution of action

GLOOM LIFTS

and people

return back to normal

state of day-to-day

Happiness

You will gradually start

thinking of other things

and the more you think of

other things, the less

miserable you are

We overestimate our emotions and underestimate our ability to adapt

Do you think you

would be happier if

you made more money?

Research shows

73% said Yes, They

would be happier if they

made more money .

Q]How important is it to be financially well off?

A] Very Important

Top two main objectives

Family

Money

WEALTHco-relates to

To a point

Happier

less struggle

enjoy better health

greater wellbeing

enough money can buy

hunger and hopelessness

Australians are three times richer than their parents

and grandparents were in 1950s, but they are not happier

Once we have enough money for comfort & security

piling up more money losses meaning, but it does

less to increase our feeling of happiness

Raising low income group increase happiness

than raising high incomes

Economic growth in affluent countries has provided no apparent boost to morale or social well being

These are the people who have lower well being

Hard working people were earning money

to prove themselves

gain power

showoff

Sadly they may not support families

or create increase in intimacy

or personal growth

or help in contributing to community

What pulls our happiness away from us?

Why is it that more money cannot stop us

from feeling our highs and lows?

ADAPTATION

COMPARISION

HAPPINESS IS RELATIVE TO OUR EXPERIENCE

We compare

everything to

our past

We adjust our level

or events being neither

too unpleasant or pleasant

to reach our neutral level.

After this we react to

variations

I am feeling

very hot i am feeling cold

its great

it not

cold not

hot

Reality - its 32 Degree C

increase in

Income level

or

academic excellence

or

social prestige

Increase

initial feeling of

pleasure

This level

becomes the

new normal

WE NEED

SOMETHING

BETTER

TO FEEL

HAPPY

ADAPTATION

Can we create a perfect and permanent social paradise?

Answer is NO

What if you woke up to experience- a wind fall?

Will you permanently feel elated?

NO BILLS

NO ILLS

PERFECT SCORES

SOMEONE WHO LOVES YOU UNRESERVEDLY

you will be elated,

after which feel

neutral.

If things are better

than expected,then

you will be in

gratitude

If things fall

below your

expectations then you

will feel

deprived and

dissatisfied

THUS THE FEELING OF SATISFACTION AND DISSATISFACTION

SUCCESS AND FAILURE ARE JUDGMENTS

MADE BASED ON PRIOR EXPERIENCE

COMPARISION

RELATIVE DEPREVATION

Happiness is relative

to other’s success.

We are

constantly

comparing

ourselves to

others

Smarter

clumsy

We feel we are worse than

people we compare

ourselves

with

MANY SOLDIERS GOT PROMOTIONS

this created frustration among

soldiers who did not get promoted

WORLD WAR II

He won 10 year contract of

275 million dollars

How do you think others felt?

Alex Rodriguez

Baseball

Lower class Middle class

Upper middle class Upper Class

???????

We

compare

ourselves

to

people

below

and

above

us

Beggars don’t envy

millionaires, though

they will envy other

beggars who are

more

successful

We cannot get

away

from envy by

means of

success alone,

for there

will always be

in history or

legend

someone even

more

successful

than us

Predictors of Happiness

Why are some people happy

always

and some so sad always

Realise that enduring

happiness may not come

from financial success

Take control

of your time

Seek work and leisure

that engage your

Join the movement- exercise

Give your body sleep it wants

Give priority

to close

relationships

Focus beyond self

Count your blessings

and

record your

Nurture your spiritual self