Why We Pursue Happiness But Overlook Joy with Ingrid Fetell Lee

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Great video! 👏🏽 Emotions exist within the realm of contrast opposites. States of Being can be obscured, but they have no opposite. True nature emanates from a source 🕳 deep within you. Well being is the fountain ⛲️ of Love ❤️ , Joy 🌞, and Peace. ☮️

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lamir if you see this please reply

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A Simple Recipe for Eudaemonia or Happiness from Affective Neuroscience HYPOTHESIS: Dopaminergic activity will stimulate endogenous opioid systems when the latter are in a non-suppressed state. EXPLANATION AND ‘PROOF’: Activity that involves continuous positive act/outcome discrepancy or novelty (productive or meaningful behavior) while the covert musculature is inactive (a resting state) will result in heightened feeling of pleasure and arousal, or ‘eudaemonia’, ‘flow’, or ‘peak’ experience. This derives from the observation that neuro-muscular tension (or stress) inhibits endogenous opioid (pleasure) release, while relaxation accentuates it, the latter permitting opioid systems to be further stimulated by dopaminergic activity (arousal) elicited by meaningful behavior. The reason this explanation does not appear evident from general observation is that its counterpart as ‘flow’ or ‘peak’ experience is described through literary metaphor and not scientific language and obscures the independent and dependent measures that accurately describe it. The virtue of this explanation is that it is easily testable by anyone. Just get into a relaxed state (mindfulness protocols are the best way to do this) and then exclusively pursue or anticipate pursuing productive activity for periods of a half hour or so, and voila, you will have a flow or eudaemonic experience. It is that simple. from ‘The Book of Rest, the Odd Psychology of doing Nothing’, available free at web sites scribd and doctormezmer

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Can I ask why the presenter has to keep saying..’research shows this’ or ‘that’, as if they are trying to convince the audience. When someone says that it sounds extremely scientific and less genuine, I.e. As if being joyful is only worthwhile because of ‘research’. On the other hand I found it helpful 😀

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An interesting observation. I have a similar frustration when I hear music education endorsed as a means of boosting marks in mathematics. Some endeavours - music, finding joy, have comprise their own intrinsic merits. However, since decision makers almost all come from the analytical world, I suppose we're bound to speak their language of persuasion.

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Bible says the joy of the Lord is your strength, it nice to know science it agrees it is a tonic.