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Happiness is an emotion that can be very easily obtained however it can be very hard to get that intense of joy sometimes. The emotional state of being content is one of the most amazing feelings in the world. Although there is always that clique question, “Does money create happiness?” To answer that no it does not and there is various ways to prove it. Money is just a piece of paper that controls most of your life ,but happiness is not one of them.

The yearning to be happy is innate in everyone. People struggle with his desire their entire lives. Some satiate it, finding enjoyment in family, money, and work, among other things. Others are fruitless, never finding happiness or even getting a chance to pursue it. Even so, we most often don’t find happiness

The world can not buy happiness, love, or dignity. People can buy things to look nicer, physically bigger and stronger, but does it give joy and comfort? In this article Anna Quindlen is saying that simpler is better and that we can not define that we are grater than others by the items that we bring into our lives. She is focusing on the danger that we have put the human race in because of the compulsive need to have the next big trend on the market. She believes that it is better to live a simpler life that appreciates more than a person who gets what they want when they want it, making them non appreciative of the world around them.

No one forces you to be happy, we as individuals have to choose to be happy. This option to be happy gives people opportunities to be better. Choosing to be happy can lead to accomplishing your, or others dreams,overcoming obstacles, and giving others happiness.

While it may be easy to conclude that materialism is a terrible mindset, we must first clarify what the popular but incorrect mindset of materialism brings. A common belief is that materialistic people believe that the acquisition of possessions will lead to happiness and life satisfaction, and that the lack of possessions will lead to dissatisfaction. However, a study (Belk 1984) revealed the contrary. It is actually dissatisfaction in life that results in a materialistic mindset, not a materialistic mindset resulting in

Carolyn Gregoire is a senior that published an article of controlling our happiness for the huffington post asking people if we can control our happiness. Carolyn stated that "happiness determines our overall well being" meaning that when we try to become happier it makes it the opposite

To a degree, our environments contribute to our personalities, but scientist have proven that we are born with some certain identity traits, meaning those traits lie in our DNA. Happiness is one of the personal trait that is passed down through our genes; the external experiences are limited that it can only influence to an extent.

Some of the direct effects materialism has on americans in our society is that earth’s resources are unable to meet the demands of all inhabitants ( An Exploration of Materialism and Consumption-Related Effect by Marsha L. Richins, Kim K. R. McKeage, and Debbie Najjar). So this forms the question we all want to know as consumers, does having more materialistic items make us more happy and improve our well-being? The answer is yes, the sole purpose of one’s possession is to bring them happiness and give them something to enjoy. The importance of knowing that you’re financially stable and are able to obtain pricey items give people a sense of comfort and confidence. This means that we expect our items to give us more positive emotion (An Exploration of Materialism and Consumption-Related Effect by Marsha L. Richins, Kim K. R. McKeage, and Debbie Najjar). However these people can also be seen as greedy and living for things without purpose. Thus meaning the overall negative side of being a materialist is that, those who solely base their happiness by the products they have achieved and are given are more likely to be dissatisfied or unhappy

To achieve happiness can be something extremely hard, but according to many, it is a a "joyful" challenge. There is no single recipe for happiness, but there are certain guidelines that might help those who intend to cultivate the garden of their personal happiness.

Sarah Gervais, Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, discusses three ways in which money can buy happiness for a person. She discusses that money can only buy happiness to a particular level, how experiences bring more happiness than material objects, and how giving to others increases a person’s happiness. Additionally, she emphasizes the importance of a person finding happiness before spending money on objects because a person cannot find happiness in material possessions. The amount of detail she incorporates in her

The study (Materialism: Origins and implications for personal well-being by Aaron Ahuvia, University of Michigan and Nancy Wong, University of Michigan) confirms the generally established negative relationships between life satisfaction and materialism. Research in future needs to investigate more closely the nature of this relationship between the two. Particularly we need to know if materialism causes unhappiness and if does then how. The current research does in this direction gives us some hints. Evidences from the Matval scale shows that those people who place the utmost value on material possessions are the least satisfied with this area in their life. This

Happiness is a very broad yet complex topic to discuss. While most people try to explain happiness with philosophy, I will be writing more about the medical and scientific aspect of happiness. There are two schools of thought on happiness, first one being social happiness and the second one being solitary happiness with me learning towards the former over the ladder. Medically, happiness comes down to a handful of chemicals (also called neurotransmitters) in the brain and if you are happy or not it comes down to the levels of these chemicals in the brain.

Materialism is strongly related with reduced well-being and increased rates of mental disorder. There’s nothing bad in hoping for more. The problem with materialism is that it makes people feel less capable, reduces feelings of gratitude, reduces one’s ability to appreciate and enjoy the good in life, generates negative emotions, and makes them more self-centered.

Happiness is something that we strive for in our lives and expect to have in our futures. I don’t know a person out there that would openly choose to be unhappy for their entire lives. We all know we want to be happy and that we want it in our future, but we have never really opened up to the idea of specifically how we were going to be happy. Is there a structural way to find happiness or does happiness find you? Keeping in mind that everyone is different and we all live different lives it’s impossible to create one direct way of finding happiness. Where one way of finding happiness can work for me it won’t work for you. While finding happiness is different for everyone there are similarities in the search for happiness. We find ourselves

A lot has been written about happiness and from psychology to philosophy, different theories of happiness have focused on issues of satisfaction, contentment, and even spiritual liberation. But happiness is one of the most subjective mental states and several factors could be at play when a person is truly happy. Whereas anger or fear could be defined with physical reactions and certain behavioural patterns, this is not so for happiness and that is how happiness is extremely subjective. For example one bar of chocolate could make one child happy whereas another child would want two chocolate bars to feel truly happy.