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- Subjective Wellbeing - A person's own evaluation of their life including emotional experiences and life satisfaction.
- Broaden and Build - Barbara Fredrickson's theory that positive emotions expand awareness and build lasting resources.
- Social Connection - The experience of feeling close to and valued by others, essential for mental and physical health.
- Happy Place - A mental or physical space where you can relax, recharge, and protect your peace.
- Anticipation Happiness - The positive emotions derived from looking forward to future experiences and events.
- Hedonic Adaptation - The tendency to return to baseline happiness levels despite major positive or negative changes.
- Authentic Happiness - Martin Seligman's framework combining positive emotions, engagement, and meaning for wellbeing.
- Arrival Fallacy - The false belief that reaching a goal will bring lasting happiness and fulfillment.
- Affective Forecasting - Predicting how future events will make us feel, a process prone to systematic errors.
- Gratitude and Happiness - The research-supported relationship between gratitude practice and increased wellbeing.
- Positivity Ratio - The balance of positive to negative emotional experiences that predicts flourishing.
- Happiness Habits - Regular practices scientifically shown to increase sustained wellbeing over time.
- Want What You Get - A mindset shift from pursuing desires to appreciating and valuing what you already have.
- Internal Happiness - Happiness cultivated from within through inner peace, contentment, and acceptance, independent of external circumstances.
- Savoring - The practice of deliberately attending to and enhancing positive experiences.
- Positive Emotions - Pleasant emotional states like joy, gratitude, and contentment that enhance wellbeing and capability.
- Meaningful Pursuits - Activities that provide purpose and significance beyond mere pleasure or achievement.
- Worldly Happiness - Happiness derived from external circumstances like wealth, status, possessions, and favorable conditions.
- Life Satisfaction - The cognitive judgment of one's life as a whole against personal standards and aspirations.
- Optimize for Happiness - Prioritizing choices that increase your happiness over career advancement or status.
- Experience Stretching - Extending the happiness from positive experiences through anticipation, savoring, and reminiscence.
- Positive Psychology - A field of psychology research that aims to understand how positivity can enable individuals, communities, and organizations to thrive.
- PERMA Model - Martin Seligman's framework for well-being based on five pillars: Positive emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment.
- Happiness Equation - The formula H = S + C + V suggesting happiness comes from set-point, conditions, and voluntary activities.
- Happiness Set Point - The baseline level of happiness to which individuals tend to return over time.
- Focusing Effect - The cognitive bias that causes people to place too much importance on one aspect of an event or decision, distorting predictions about future happiness or outcomes.
- Happiness in the Moment - Happiness occurs when nothing is missing in the present moment - when we stop wanting the situation to change.
- Happiness Advantage - The finding that happiness leads to success more than success leads to happiness.
- Gratitude Practice - Intentional activities designed to cultivate and express appreciation for life's positives.
- Hedonia - The pursuit of pleasure and positive emotional experiences as a path to wellbeing.
- Happiness Practices - Specific activities and exercises designed to cultivate greater wellbeing and life satisfaction.
- Pleasure vs Meaning - The distinction between hedonic happiness (feeling good) and eudaimonic wellbeing (living well).
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