The document discusses various topics related to happiness such as its definition, factors that influence happiness, and ways to increase happiness. It provides information on how the UN has recognized happiness as a fundamental human goal. It also mentions that Finland, Norway, and Denmark are among the top 10 happiest countries according to the World Happiness Report. Additionally, it discusses how positive psychology studies well-being and identifies factors that create happiness. Some ways discussed to increase happiness include expressing gratitude, spending time with family and friends, helping others, and adopting a positive mindset.

1. Dr. Mrs. Kiran Dammani
Principal
Shri Gujarati Samaj B.Ed. College
Indore

2.  In July 2011, the United Nations General
Assembly adopted a groundbreaking resolution
which recognised happiness as a “fundamental
human goal”
 In April 2012 the first ever UN conference on
Happiness took place in New York and
 in July 2012 the UN General Assembly adopted a
further resolution which decreed, that the
International Day of Happiness was to be
observed every year on 20 March.
 It was celebrated for the first time in 2013.
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3.  1. Finland: 7.632
 2. Norway: 7.594
 3. Denmark: 7.555
 4. Iceland: 7.49
 5 Switzerland: 7.487
 6. Netherlands: 7.441
 7. Canada: 7.328
 8. New Zealand: 7.324
 9. Sweden: 7.314
 10. Australia: 7.272
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4. according to a UN-based report. The
World Happiness Index 2018, which
measures 156 countries in terms of
happiness, has placed India in the
133rd position, a drop of 11 places
from last year's 122nd rank. The
country was ranked 118th in 2016.
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5.  Madhya Pradesh has become the first state in
India to get a Happiness Department (Anand
Vibhaag ) within the state government apparatus
 The objective of the department is to measure
prosperity by gauging citizens happiness quotient
and not the gross domestic product.
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6.  Martin Seligman launched Positive Psychology in 1998 when he
became President of the American Psychological Association
Positive Psychology identifies and studies the factors that create
well-being rather than at cures for psychological illnesses
 It proposes to make people happier and more fulfilled by using
and developing their strengths
It is based on scientific research that has been carried out
through controlled experiments and longitudinal studies
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7. Happiness is a mental or emotional state of well-being
characterized by positive or pleasant emotions
ranging from contentment to intense joy.
Aristotle stated that happiness (also being well and
doing well) is the only thing that humans desire for
its own sake, unlike riches, honor, health or
friendship. He observed that men sought riches, or
honor, or health not only for their own sake but also
in order to be happy.Happiness is characteristic of a
good life, that is, a life in which a person fulfills
human nature in an excellent way. Happiness is the
practice of virtue. happiness is the meaning and the
purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human
existence. Dr. Kiran Dammani

8. Bertrand Russell (1930) noted that happiness is
accompanied by the fullest exercise of our
faculties and the fullest realization of the world in
which we live
Socrates advocate self-knowledge as the path to
happiness.
Plato's happiness is found in deeper meaning
Philosophers and religious thinkers often define
happiness in terms of living a good life, or
flourishing, rather than simply as an emotion.
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9.  The Pleasant Life: Having many pleasures in life
and the skills to amplify them
 The Good Life/ The engaged life : The engaged
life is felt when being deeply involved and
absorbed in what one is doing in multiple life roles,
including love, work and play.
 The Meaningful Life: The meaningful life is
defined as using one’s strengths in the service of
something larger than oneself
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10.  Positive emotion
 Engagement
 Positive relationships
 Meaning
 Accomplishment
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11.  Women who displayed genuine smiles to a
photographer at age eighteen went on to have
fewer divorces and more marital satisfaction than
those who displayed fake smiles (Keltner, Kring,
& Bonanno, 1999).
 Happy teenagers go on to earn substantially more
income fifteen years later than less happy
teenagers, controlling for income, grades, and
other obvious factors (Diener, Nickerson, Lucas, &
Sandvik, 2002).
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12.  Optimistic people are less likely to die of heart
attacks than pessimists, controlling for all known
physical risk factors (Giltay, Geleijnse, Zitman,
Hoekstra, & Schouten, 2004).
 Money has a very small effect on happiness
According to the Easterlin Paradox (named after the
economist Richard Easterlin), GDP has steadily
increased over the past 50 years, however levels of
national wellbeing and happiness have remained
almost the same (Layard, 2005).
 Relationships and marriage are robustly related to
happiness (Diener & Biswas-Diener, 2008).
 A Harvard Business School study (2009) found that
"spending money on others actually makes us
happier than spending it on ourselves".
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13.  Happiness is contagious as people surrounded by
happy friends, family members and neighbors
who are central to their social network become
significantly happier in the future. For example,
an individual will become 25% happier if a friend
who lives within a mile becomes significantly
happier with his or her life (Christakis & Fowler,
2009).
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14.  More productive
 More creative
 More helpful
 Better at service
 More focused on
quality
 Better team-players
 More open
 Show more empathy
 Good Sales Man
 More optimistic
 More motivated
 More engaged
 More energetic
 Learn faster
 Better leaders
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15.  Barriers to happiness are factors that cause
unhappiness to most people. Some of the
happiness barriers that you might experience at
work, these may be:
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16.  A stressful atmosphere
based on a “no room for
error” policy
 Lack of communication
and social interaction
between colleagues
 The constant absence of
your chief or team
leader , your colleagues
and subordinate,
 Too many rules in the
way of working
 You don’t get the
support you need
when you have a new
idea or suggestion
 Your schedule is very
closely monitored
 Lack of a proper
channel that you can
use to give feedback to
your colleagues or to
your administrator
 No team activities
outside of work
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17. We spend a huge portion of our lives at work. Even if you
only work the traditional 40 hours in a week, you’re still
spending nearly 1/3 of your life at work.. Because so much
of your life is spent at work, a huge deciding factor in your
well-being is whether or not you’re happy at work.
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18.  Expressing gratitude : improve your mood. People
who write down a few positive things about their day
are healthier, more energetic, less stressed and anxious,
and get better sleep.
 Surround yourself with happier people : Happiness is
contagious. Dr. Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler,
researchers Harvard and University of San Diego,
found that each additional happy friend increases a
person's probability of being happy by about 9%.
 Do nice things for others : Research has shown that
spending money on others makes us happier than
spending money on ourselves and doing small acts of
kindness increases life satisfaction.
 Spend more time with family and friends : Having
friends can save your life. Low social interaction can be
as bad for you as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, and is
twice as bad for your health as obesity.
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19.  Spend money on experiences instead of things :
Research shows people report feeling happier when they
spend their money on experiences rather than objects.
 Set goals and don’t make them too easy : Studies have
shown that working towards challenging goals makes
people happier and actually suppresses negative
feelings along with increasing positive ones.
 Donate to a cause you care about : Scientists have used
functional MRI to show that giving to a charity causes
brain activity in the same regions involved when you
feel pleasure or reward.
 Get more sleep: Researchers have shown that about 6
hours of sleep a night is the amount of sleep that makes
people the happiest.
 Try and learn new things : People who have a variety of
experiences have more positive emotions than those
who have less variety.
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21. Everyone wants to be noticed when they’ve done a good
job. Constructive feedback is important factors that
determine happiness at workplace.
Remind them of the contribution they’re making, and
make an effort to give out both positive and
constructive feedback on a regular basis
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22.  Most people crave growth and professional
development in the workplace. You can help
provide this by giving exceptional employees
opportunities for new responsibilities and
promotions,
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23. Employees who work in a transparent environment
usually enjoy better relationships with
management and colleagues, and feel more
invested in the overall goals of the organization.
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24. Micro-management is one easy way to make
employees unhappy. Trusting your team to do
their job without constant monitoring is one of the
hallmarks of a good leader. Autonomy, combined
with clear goals and expectations.
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25.  Every day you have to interact with people.
These connections are unavoidable, and so it goes
without saying that the quality of these
connections has a significant impact on our
workplace happiness.
 If you enjoy your co-workers, especially if you
work with friends, you’ll truly enjoy coming into
work each day and the time you spend at work
will be joyful and rewarding
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26.  Positive communication can make a huge
difference not just in your individual happiness
but in the entire company you work for, which
turns back around and further promotes greater
happiness in your work.
 Barbara Frederickson, a University of North
Carolina positive psychologist, visited 60
companies with a team of researchers to study the
language used during their business meetings
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27. We want to feel like the job we do helps move the
company forward. If you work somewhere that
values your contribution and you can really feel
how the work you do positively affects the whole,
you know that having the ability to make a
difference is a major factor in deciding your level
of happiness in the workplace.
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28.  Up until now, the focus has been on what exactly
happiness is and the kinds of things that make us
happy.
 Now, the focus is on how to INCREASE
happiness or in other words; “Happiness
Boosting”.
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29.  Fordyce (1977)
Found that people tend
to become happier
when they mimic the
positive
characteristics of
people they perceive
are happier than
them
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30. Human beings like stories. We tend to empathize
with the main characters and when they feel good
at the end of the story, so do we. This can also
work when you tell yourself a story about a
situation you are in now. Imagining the situation
with a happy ending not only gives you a mood
lift, but helps wire your brain and body to make
that happy ending happen.
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31.  This can be as simple as thinking about ice cream
and as complex as imagining world peace. The
more sensory detail you can put into your dream,
the better. If you can taste the ice cream in your
mouth, feel the cold creaminess of it, smell the
chocolate or see the strawberry chunks in the soft
pink cream, you will feel better. Your brain
produces many of the same feel good chemicals as
when you experience something pleasurable
when you just imagine experiencing it.
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32. Doing good feels good. You could give a
compliment, a financial contribution, share these
tips for happiness, or just help someone on the
street with directions. No matter how big or small,
good deeds are like smiles- the more you do self-
less acts of kindness, the happier you feel and the
happier you feel, the more you want to pass it on
by helping someone else feel good.
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33.  Pick one person (not a relative) who lives nearby,
who you should thank
 Write a letter of appreciation to that person (ex.
How they helped you, affected you,
 Take it to that person, read the letter and leave it.
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34.  3 GOOD THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO YOU
and/or
 1 GOOD THING YOU DID FOR SOMEONE ELSE
 After completing this activity every day for a week,
participants began to report more happiness and
less depression after one month, an effect that
remained at three- and six-month follow-ups.
However, the long-term benefits of weekly versus
daily gratitude journaling remains unclear.
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35.  Picking up something that someone has dropped
 Holding open the door
 Washing the car
 Putting out the wheelie bin
 Doing the shopping –
or one of thousands of other small but significant acts that make
other people’s lives just a little bit more pleasant
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36.  “SMILING IS YOGA FOR THE MOUTH”-THICH
NHAT HAHN
 Paul Ekman’s research on facial expression-a
smile produces a change in brain activity and
creates a happier mood.
 Kraft and Pressman study-a smile can alter stress
response. It can slow heart rate and decrease
perceived level of stress.
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37. If you want happiness for an hour-take a nap
If you want happiness for a day-go fishing
If you want happiness for a month-get married
If you want happiness for a year-inherit a fortune
If you want happiness for a lifetime-
help others
Chinese proverb

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