Joy — expanding human consciousness Bashny.Net

The happy person sees the world in its beauty and harmony, sees people at their best, not trying to improve or change them.

But the joy is not just a positive attitude to the world itself, it is also a heightened sense of Belonging, their belonging to the world. Know that the joy is often accompanied by feelings of energy, feelings of competence, confidence in their own abilities, which ultimately causes a kind of transcendental feeling of freedom was beyond his "I" and everyday reality. In a state of joyful ecstasy one feels extraordinary lightness, intensity, he wants to fly.

Joy as a basic emotion has its own unique characteristics and differs from the feeling of pleasure associated with touch sensations such as tactile and gustatory. Literally the emotion of joy is more elusive than sensual pleasure. Chocolate, ice cream almost always give us pleasure, but not so easy to determine what will bring joy to a person, plan a joyful experience.





Joy can not be caused intentionally, scheduled. It occurs spontaneously, when people achieve some significant goals,

In the book "Joy: expanding human consciousness" (1967) William Schutz defines joy as a feeling that arise due to recognition of realize their potential."

Indeed, self-realization almost always brings people joy, but the sources of this feeling are not limited to purposeful activity and achievement of results. Each of us can find out for yourself what gives him joy. To do this, you can do the exercise "List of pleasures", remembering and writing all the events that cause you joy. Take 10-15 minutes, take your time and try to record the maximum number of sources of joy to you.

Then ask yourself the question, walking through each item of the list — how long has it been in your life?

Well, if you discover that joy is your background emotion that you "sound" every day. If the opening is of a different kind — think about how your personal sources of joy to make style and lifestyle, making them in your daily "diet"?

And remember, joy is everywhere. We only have to manage not to consider, find and, first and foremost, within yourself.

According to the materials of Carroll E. Izard "Psychology of emotions" published

P. S. And remember, just changing your mind — together we change the world! © Join us at Facebook , Vkontakte, Odnoklassniki

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