General Principals of Happiness

Happiness is a complex system and needs to be considered from several viewpoints.

These include:-

1. Point effect happiness.

This is the feeling of happiness in the moment or opposite. Defined her as Joy or Despair. There are various ways one can purposefully manufacture both these point effect emotions for example using Enjoy What You Do and the Child of Wonder and Alternative Reality mind states even the Love All method for Joy and the Spiral Empathy Path the Everything is wrong mind state and look into the abyss process.

If you manage these point effect emotions you can mitigate there impact on the next level, but most people can not and thus they 'integrate' to set the base level of happiness, i.e. continual moments of Joy feed/top up the base level see Happiness Engine. This is why it is probably important to ensure our children have many moments of Joy.

2. Base level of happiness.

This is the general measure of someone's base happiness or satisfaction in life, the rest state when not experiencing point effect emotions. It is the state that people generally relate to when you ask them are you happy?

Base happiness can be managed with the right set of skills and personal awareness although this depends on the Level of Awareness people have and for levels 0 and 1 generally only point effect happiness can modify this base level.

Management techniques for those aware include Micro Purposing, Applied Watching and Happiness Audits

The opposite of happiness at this level is of course Sadness

3. Happiness Reserves.

Happiness reserves or the wellbeing bank is basically a reserve of resources based on memories or happier times and a belief in the nature of the universe and your place in it. These reserves can be called upon (and unfortunately consumed) in times of challenge and hardship. The reserves are built up from the base level of happiness over time and point effects and can be see as an integration of the base level of happiness.

If you are loved as child or adult and that love is manifestly expressed and known this can build up your reserves. Reserves contribute to your feeling of self worth, optimism and 'faith' in the world.

Tools to manage your reserves over short time periods are hard to use an if your reserves are very low such things as Faith harvesting and Fake it before you make it would be needed even Core Personality Restructure using the simulate and deploy methodology.

4. Happiness with current Life.

It is possible to have good (or bad) stats in these areas but still be unhappy with aspects of your current life situation or in summary of all factors your overall life. This factors can be divided into two sub areas:-