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
Sharon Begley, author of “Happiness: Enough Already,” proclaims that dejection is not an unacceptable state of mind and there are experts that endorses gloomy feelings. This reading explicates that even though every-one should be happy there is no need to ignore sadness, as both emotions share key parts in everyone’s life. Sharon Begley and her team of specialists provides the information on why sadness is supplemental to a person’s life.
Negative emotions stop us from thinking and behaving rationally and seeing situations in their true perspective. When the negative emotion overrules a person then he tends to listen only to his inner voice, on which he has no control. Negative emotions should not be prolonged for a longer time and when it happens, the problem becomes more entrenched. Negative emotions, if not handled with patience and appropriate measures, it can lead to big disasters of any kind, for example, expressing anger with violence.
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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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
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
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
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
First and foremost, being happy all of the time can cause us to miss out on the full value of happiness. Is being happy all of the time a good thing? According to the article Don’t Worry Be Gloomy, Susan David writes that “there are some positive things that sadness, anger, guilt, or fear can do” (David 126). She means that even though you are feeling bad something
can be noticed by people around them. If these emotions do continue, illness can result.
Morrie teaches people that although showing emotions is important, he says that we should not cling onto them because everything is temporary. Morrie thinks that it is healthy to express one’s emotions and it is also important to not cling onto things because nothing is temporary. “Don’t cling to things, because everything is impermanent” (Albom 103). I agree with Morrie that people should not cling to emotions and martial things. Although, some emotions are positive, people should not cling onto theses either. People should be happy about things in that
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.
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
When we are young children, we are introduced to the concept of "living happily ever after". This is a fairy-tale emotional state of absolute happiness, where nothing really happens, and nothing even seems to matter. It is a state of feeling good all the time. In fairy tales, this feeling is usually found in fulfilling marriages, royal castles, singing birds and laughing children. In real life, an even-keeled mood is more psychologically healthy than a mood in which you frequently achieve great heights of happiness. Furthermore, when you ask people what makes their lives worth living, they rarely mention their mood. They are more likely to talk about what they find meaningful, such as their work or relationships. Research suggests that if you focus too much on trying to feel good all the time, you’ll actually undermine your ability to ever feel good because no amount of feeling good will be satisfying to you. If feeling good all the time were the only requirement for happiness, then a person who uses cocaine every day would be extremely happy. In our endless struggle for more money, more love and more security, we have forgotten the most fundamental fact: happiness is not caused by possessions or social positions, and can in fact be experienced in any daily activity. We have made happiness a utopia: expensive, complicated, and unreachable.
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