Comments on: Choose Happiness http://www.happypsychotic.com/328/choose-happiness/ The societal ramblings of a couple brothers in their pursuit of truth Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:44:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: vp http://www.happypsychotic.com/328/choose-happiness/comment-page-1/#comment-153 vp Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:03:05 +0000 http://www.happypsychotic.com/?p=328#comment-153 Nice blog. I would rephrase the title - instead of "choose happiness", call it "choose positive emotions". happiness alone is not what we're after. we want excitement, curiosity, social connectivity, feeling of achievement, feeling of respect from others, etc. these various emotions could be one chemical or a combination of a few chemicals etc. one day science iwll tell you the exact chemistry. but until then, it is good enough to know that we humans prefer these positive emotions to negative ones. I think the previous comment would be blunted in part based on my comment...because you can't get tired if your'e switching between multiple postiive emotions. having said that, we also desire a certain amount of thrill (fast car), fear (horror movie) etc. so the definition of positive could be somewhat broad. Nice blog. I would rephrase the title – instead of “choose happiness”, call it “choose positive emotions”. happiness alone is not what we’re after. we want excitement, curiosity, social connectivity, feeling of achievement, feeling of respect from others, etc. these various emotions could be one chemical or a combination of a few chemicals etc. one day science iwll tell you the exact chemistry. but until then, it is good enough to know that we humans prefer these positive emotions to negative ones.

I think the previous comment would be blunted in part based on my comment…because you can’t get tired if your’e switching between multiple postiive emotions.

having said that, we also desire a certain amount of thrill (fast car), fear (horror movie) etc. so the definition of positive could be somewhat broad.

]]> By: terry http://www.happypsychotic.com/328/choose-happiness/comment-page-1/#comment-150 terry Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:50:30 +0000 http://www.happypsychotic.com/?p=328#comment-150 To choose or not to choose: happiness. Is this an option? Us mammals need different moods just like we need eight hours of sleep. First of all the sleep part is mandatory, approx 1/3 of are lived life. I am sure that a normal person can be happy more hours of their day than they are now, but there is a limit, or a fine line between real and acting. I am a pp actor, and so I do not pretend to be what I am not. So, I am saying that fake happiness is bad, even more so, the continual distortion of one's mind to project happiness when in fact there is non will cause failure. Ok, so what about putting on the happy face, with careful background monitoring to ensure that no fake happiness is involved. A coach is required for this. One mind cannot track/test itself for happiness. Many events trigger happiness. That is different from being happy. What made you happy today, if only for a minute? News of a new baby? Perhaps a flikr photo, perhaps a you tube fideo, possibly just a cartoon by scott adams. Weeding thru to real happiness. It is based on brain chemicals , which are based on evolution. The brain chemicals come from our mammalian brain, not the logical brain. We can manipulate the lower brain but we cannot control it. The lower brain evolved to keep us alive, basically the three requirements: food , sex, housing. I am suggesting that the brain chemicals are released after we accomplish one of those tasks. Renovating, anyone? h'mmm ---completeion = brain chemicals => happyness. It works for a week or two, then you have open house and everyone makes you happy all over again if they like the renovation. After two months , by jesus the feelings gone. Go do more renovations. There are ppl who have added hundreds of rooms to their home. Not a renovator then take the shopping route. h'mmm food = brain chemicals => happiness. I'm not too serious here, you will get over weight or you will max your card on caviar and tibetan tee. The other item: sex. It too is a multibillion dollar industry. You will max quickly, so forget happiness every single day. Try happiness every second day. You'l still max out, or you might end up with more kids, or more rooms or over weight. So what is the correct ratio. Of course, it is different for each mammal. The bottom line of course is that you cannot control it. Some say you cannot buy it. You can buy a lot, and some of it will be happiness, but you cannot buy a child (thats the sex part). You can buy a house, and you can buy food. In this respect us Caniks (happy canuks) are better off than most of the world. Again hapiness is not governed by greater than less than. It arises based on the evolution of our unconsious brain. So you may ask. Is there a happy gene, a bit of dna stuck on the end of one of those deoxy ribonuleic acids (dna). I am sure there is one, but it operates based on our evolution, actually said the same thing twice now . DNA is a function of evolution. Anyway , if you have read this far it seems that you are a serious happiness freak. Try alcohol. To choose or not to choose: happiness. Is this an option?
Us mammals need different moods just like we need eight hours of sleep. First of all the sleep part is mandatory, approx 1/3 of are lived life. I am sure that a normal person can be happy more hours of their day than they are now, but there is a limit, or a fine line between real and acting. I am a pp actor, and so I do not pretend to be what I am not. So, I am saying that fake happiness is bad, even more so, the continual distortion of one’s mind to project happiness when in fact there is non will cause failure.
Ok, so what about putting on the happy face, with careful background monitoring to ensure that no fake happiness is involved. A coach is required for this. One mind cannot track/test itself for happiness.
Many events trigger happiness. That is different from being happy. What made you happy today, if only for a minute? News of a new baby? Perhaps a flikr photo, perhaps a you tube fideo, possibly just a cartoon by scott adams.
Weeding thru to real happiness. It is based on brain chemicals , which are based on evolution. The brain chemicals come from our mammalian brain, not the logical brain. We can manipulate the lower brain but we cannot control it. The lower brain evolved to keep us alive, basically the three requirements:
food , sex, housing. I am suggesting that the brain chemicals are released after we accomplish one of those tasks.
Renovating, anyone? h’mmm —completeion = brain chemicals => happyness.
It works for a week or two, then you have open house and everyone makes you happy all over again if they like the renovation.
After two months , by jesus the feelings gone. Go do more renovations. There are ppl who have added hundreds of rooms to their home.
Not a renovator then take the shopping route. h’mmm food = brain chemicals => happiness. I’m not too serious here, you will get over weight or you will max your card on caviar and tibetan tee.
The other item: sex. It too is a multibillion dollar industry. You will max quickly, so forget happiness every single day. Try happiness every second day. You’l still max out, or you might end up with more kids, or more rooms or over weight. So what is the correct ratio. Of course, it is different for each mammal.

The bottom line of course is that you cannot control it. Some say you cannot buy it. You can buy a lot, and some of it will be happiness, but you cannot buy a child (thats the sex part). You can buy a house, and you can buy food. In this respect us Caniks (happy canuks) are better off than most of the world.
Again hapiness is not governed by greater than less than. It arises based on the evolution of our unconsious brain. So you may ask. Is there a happy gene, a bit of dna stuck on the end of one of those deoxy ribonuleic acids (dna). I am sure there is one, but it operates based on our evolution, actually said the same thing twice now . DNA is a function of evolution.

Anyway , if you have read this far it seems that you are a serious happiness freak. Try alcohol.

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