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Happiness – a feeling of pleasure and contentment in the way things are going; a general sense of enjoyment of and enthusiasm for life. Imagine feeling a deep satisfaction in the accomplishment of something or a strong appreciation for your own worth or dignity. 44. Relief Euphoria – intense and the all-encompassing sense of joy or happiness, often experienced when something extremely positive and exciting happens. Consciously watching and pivoting your thoughts as you have them can change the way the whole universe responds to you.

You get this feeling when something takes you by surprise and makes you laugh or when you find yourself pleasantly distracted by something. 7. Awe Here are more examplesof positive emotions drawn from the Positive Affect Negative Affect Scale (PANAS), a commonly used measure of emotions ( Watson, Clark, & Tellegen, 1988). You feel romance when you’re in love with someone, or when your partner does something romantic for you. 47. Satisfaction Yegiyan, N. S., & Yonelinas, A. P. (2011). Encoding details: Positive emotion leads to memory broadening. Cognition & Emotion, 25, 1255-1262. Ever felt propelled into doing something unexpected and spur-of-the-moment? Maybe it surprised you, or perhaps you felt freer and more like yourself. 52. TriumphEvery event that has happened has gotten you here. And there is no way to change the past. We can learn from it and try to look at what it has to teach.

All of us have environments and situations we are born into and grow from, creating the people that we are. We all have the resources in our environments that are different from the resources that others have in their situations. Focus on one happy emotion at a time. It can also be helpful to identify which of these happy emotions you feel least frequently in your own life. For a week or two, focus on creating moments to experience that emotion and enjoy a new aspect of happiness. Generally speaking, an emotion is a felt response to something that affects you in some way. Depending on whom you ask, emotions can either be an involuntary response to something (like a reflex) or a chosen response (like a judgment). Good emotions are those that are consistent with the truth; they represent an appropriate response to the way things are — inside and out.You learn what strengths you uncovered about yourself during those darker periods. You can identify what truths you gained about life and are grateful to have. Although Plutchik’s wheel was (and is) one of the best-known concepts about our complex emotions, some people believe that there are only 2 or 3 basic emotions and everything else falls into a hierarchy of secondary emotions and tertiary emotions. For example, “love” can be broken down into secondary emotions—“affection” and “longing”—and even “affection” can be broken down into tertiary emotions of “liking,” “caring,” and “compassion.” Taking the time to cultivate and to mindfully enjoy positive emotions helps us to grow and makes us better able to contribute to the happiness of others. Positive Emotions List Imagine a strong feeling of self-determination or of having just been liberated from a type of slavery. 27. Friendship They can also affect how we behave. For example, if you are in a bad mood, you might be more likely to snap at someone or get into an argument.