Our world is full of many of the most varied forms, types of material and spiritual concepts.One is happiness.It is an inner state, which is different degrees of intensity: happiness, pleasure, bliss.The satisfaction a person experiences can be quiet and calm.Delight bravado expressed strong storm, with a head covering lucky.
Everyone - the happiness
dreams, desires, preferences and customs of the people are so different that each of the individual essence of happiness is different, and sometimes be the exact opposite of the joy of others.For example, one man jumping off a bridge with an elastic band causes a flurry of emotions, unrestrained glee, and the other - the horror and fear.Someone finds ecstasy in courage in dangerous work, which allows to demonstrate, by their nature, for other extreme situation - worse than you can imagine.
Many people believe that the essence of happiness in a responsible attitude towards life and others, for them the most important thing - work, social activities, a positive opinion of the society.But the same number of individuals seeking to momentary pleasures for himself to idleness, amusement.
Many women dream of having a simple happiness, "female", which concluded in the presence of a home, full of family, healthy children and creating comfort.But now we can see girls careerists, feminists and lady-childfree, which do not wish to have children and are in their absence their happiness.Great joy can cause food or beverages, luxury or trinkets, pleasant touch or absence of pain.A fan of massage will dream of bodily pleasures all day long, and pathologically patient - a complete lack of sensation in the body.
philosophical idea of happiness
Reflections of happiness are not new.The search for the meaning of life and eternal joy long plagued humanity, do not lose their relevance today.The ancient philosophers of ancient times in the understanding of this feeling is divided into two areas: a hedonistic and evdemonisticheskoe.The first thought happiness momentary pleasure, sensual pleasures and regarded them as the purpose of life and motives of human behavior.The second inclined to believe that the essence of happiness is to fully achieve any aspirations, and the presence of a positive assessment from the outside is necessary.
Exaggerating, one can imagine how some followers of the ancient areas of day and night indulge in bodily pleasures, are in idle, and others are constantly looking to work on a measure of his happiness and see the success in work and science, his assessment of people.These opposite directions to each other did not lose the freshness in the past century.And today, you can see how the event of disagreement between the supporters of two opinions about happiness.Sometimes even in the same family, is not it?
beginning of a new era, the era of Christianity, marked by the emergence of a new, evangelical understanding of the source of happiness.The underlying thesis - "love is happiness."Only humility, acceptance of what befell the human sacrificial love for someone is a true Christian happiness.It comes to those who sincerely donates, gives himself and receives all the trials with love.In other cases, according to this philosophy, happiness is either impossible or false.
Medicine of happiness
Medicine - an exact science and philosophy does not tolerate.The essence of happiness, on the proposal of health care workers is the presence and influence on the human body is a specific set of hormones serotonin, endorphins and dopamine.Each of these hormones acts differently on the person and cause different sensations.
For example, endorphins cheer up, do not allow fear and fatigue prevail.Serotonin also makes a good mood, but adds physical activity, the desire to move and brings the fun of it.Dopamine motivates to action.With a shortage of some so-called hormone of happiness, a person experiences discomfort, lethargy, fatigue and bad mood.
terms of scientific psychology ...
scientific psychology at the source of happiness sees other reasons.She calls happiness harmony between the four areas of human life: health, family, work and mental balance, that is the full satisfaction of the individual.If the life of the individual is present balance between these four components, it experiences happiness, according to psychologists.
summarize
So, what's really going on?What is the happiness?I think that in all of the above.It is safe to agree with the philosophers of antiquity and the modern world experts, medical workers and psychologists, with women careerists and mothers, with the rest of humanity for which the beauty of happiness in its diversity, the opposition, versatility and bright manifestation.Most importantly - this is what happiness is everywhere, it surrounds us from birth to death, do not shy away from any inhabitant of the globe.
