Do You Feel Happy Or Sad?

In order to be truly happy we must find the perfect balance of accepting our emotions and learning to cope with them. Like Joy, we often become obsessed with the thought of being happy and forget that its not possible to be happy without the aid of all other emotions and like Sadness, we think of ourselves as pathetic and worthless if we feel down, which is not the case at all. We try to hide our true emotions, in fear of looking weak in front of others. The only way for true happiness is to find a balance with all emotions and be in tune with

You feel happy when you are optimistic. This can result in you feeling more energetic, give you brighter eyes, and bring you success and happiness. You also walk with more confidence and have a stronger voice. Also, your positivity can spread to others, however, any negativity can also spread. Some ways to be positive are to not allow what other people say about you get to you. Other ways are to smile more, try to only visualize positive things, use positive words when talking to people, and don’t give up. (Sasson, The Power of Positive Thinking, Paragraphs 1, 14, 22, 23, 24, 25, and 27) These are great examples of why you would want to be optimistic and respond to conflict with positivity.

Initial response to stress activates immune systems; prolonged stress weakens the immune system making you more susceptible to getting sick.

The negative emotions, for instance, sadness can actually benefit one’s life. According to Sharon Begley’s article “Happiness: Enough Already,” “Wilson argues that only by experiencing sadness can we experience the fullness of the human condition” (456). Sadness even though is unpleasant to the ear and eyes allows one to mourn, grief, and

Raise blood pressure. Chronic stress raises your risk for high blood pressure (hypertension), heart attack, and stroke.

“Beyond Happiness: The Upside of Feeling Down” article by Matthew Hutson explains that negative emotions often have a pessimistic stigma. Normally when one addresses fear, anger, guilt, and regret, a positive outlook is not the first thing that comes to mind. Because these emotions are mostly negative, people try to not act on them or conceal them when trouble arises; however, acting on these emotions can bring a positive feeling. Hutson sheds light on why anger, shame, envy, fear, and grief should not be looked at as “negative” emotions all the time, rather they should just be looked at as emotions.

Stress affects your health without you even realizing it. Constant headaches or trouble sleeping would be something stress causes often. This can get bad enough which leads to serious health problems such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. Stress effects your body with things like muscle

Having negative symptoms means you are lacking something that is very important to your well being. A person speaking in dull disconnected way or emotionally flat are categorized of having negative symptoms. Most people experiencing negative symptoms have a lack of emotion, low energy, lack of interest in life and alogia which is the difficulty or inability to speak.

One deadly condition could lead to reduced immune response, shortened lifespan, accelerated biologic aging, increased chance of coronary heart disease, osteoporosis and HIV infection, double the rate of severe depression, dementia, arthritis, increased blood sugar and blood pressure, and distorted cells that could lead to cancer. Black Plague? Ebola? No, this deadly condition that could destroy your health is stress.

Negative feelings can get in the way of progress, and it is important to concentrate on what you want to achieve and to make the most of the support that is on offer.

The symptoms of chronic stress can be very dangerous and could be even deadly. Some examples of the symptoms can be heart attack, strokes, cancer, and even suicide (Miller and Smith, n.d.).

Firstly, it is well known that long term stress has detrimental effects on the body, and the mind. One study published this year showed a possible link between cortisol, the stress hormone, and depression (Jin, et al. 2016). Another literature review published this year linked stress with increased risk of developing several mental and physical conditions, like certain cancers, arthritis, mood and

No matter how many points we put across stating the positives of depression, it does not give as many positives as one could have gotten by simply remaining happy.

If you are not happy, your thoughts and your emotions are not happy. Complaining, sadness, hopelessness, worry, jealousy, hatred, blame, doubt, disappointment, overwhelming, annoyance, and on and on it goes. All of these things contribute to the decline of your happiness and health in a big way.

Stay in a joyous mood. If you are always in a good mood and spreading joy, there is no way to be negative. You will always be looking on the bright side seeing how fortunate you are. This will keep a smile on your face showing that you are truly happy. Also, help others around you to be in a good mood. This will help you connect with others.