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Emotional Happiness
Recognize and Name Your Happy Emotions

Happy Qualtities for a Happy Life!

Although many happy emotions arise spontaneously, part of the experience is the realization that we feel them. When you are joyful, you are aware that you are joyful at that moment. Since consciousness of joy is part of the experience, it stands to reason that the more we tune in to joy in our lives, the more of it we may feel. In fact, Rhonda Byrne, in her book, The Secret, says that we can attract things into our lives just by focusing on them.

Although we have plenty of words to describe happy emotions, our adult brains tend to spend more time thinking about problems and negative states than positive ones. We need to find the problem and fix it. How often have you heard that admitting the problem is half the solution? We human beings are creatures of habit. Once we think in certain ways over and over again, our brains develop special pathways that make it easier to think that way again. When we spend a lot of time looking for problems, the brain pathways that look for emotional happiness get rusty and harder to navigate.

When I heard, as a child, that our brain cells died if we didn’t think about something for a long time, I resolved to protect myself by periodically thinking about something I didn’t usually pay much attention to. To this day, the thought of slimy frogs still comes to mind once in a while- just to keep the slimy frog neural net alive. Here are five motivational tips for using these words to increase your emotional happiness:

Pick one word and spend a whole day looking for that emotion in yourself and others. Notice who has it, who doesn’t or where you see more or less of it that day.
Spend some time brainstorming more happy words and add to the list. I have found that most people feel happier just by reading the list of happy words.
Pick your top ten words. Again, the time you spend thinking about and evaluating happy words will tend to focus your attention on the happiness around you.
Write one or two of the words on a piece of paper, or make a poster. Post it somewhere you see frequently like the bathroom mirror, your computer monitor, or the dashboard of your car.
Write each word on a card and pull one at random when you need a little boost. Then spend a moment thinking about whether that emotion applies to you now or could apply to you now.

120 Words for Emotional Happiness

Exhilarated	Celebrate	Accomplished	Pleased
Expectation	Cheerful	Adoring	Pleasure
Exultant	Climax	Advantageous	Polite
Fascinated	Compassionate	Affectionate	Positive
Fair	Competent	Agreeable	Proud
Faithful	Content	Amazing	Rapt
Fantastic	Contentment	Amorous	Relish
Favor	Delight	Amused	Satisfied
Favorable	Eager	Amusement	Serene
Fervent	Ebullient	Animated	Skilled
Festive	Ecstasy	Anticipation	Spell bound
Fine	Elated	Appreciative	Spiffy
Forgiving	Energized	Ardent	Sunny
Fulfilled	Engaged	Astonishing	Sunshine
Fun	engrossed	Attracted	Superb
Glad	Enjoyment	Awestruck	Talented
Gorgeous	Enthralled	Beautiful	Tender
Grateful	Enthusiastic	Beneficial	Thankful
Gratified	Euphoric	Blissful	Thrilled
Great	Exalted	Breathtaking	Tickled
Groovy	Excellent	Brilliant	Triumphant
Gusto	Excited	Captivated	Virtuous
Merry	Helpful	Joyful	Well-mannered
Mesmerized	High	Joyous	Whole Hearted
Nice	Hopeful	Jubilant	Wonderful
Noble	In high spirits	Keen	Worthy
Happy	Interested	Kind	Peak
Occupied	Involved	Lovely	Zealous
Optimistic	Jolly	Loving	Zest
Orgasm	Jovial	Magnificent	Joy

Think of these words often, notice how often they describe how you feel at that moment, and watch your spirits soar.

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