If you have checked out a few of my other blogpieces you will see that I regularly state that thereis a state beyond happiness that can be the best goal inlife. At the same time mainstream science hasyet to reach this truth. One current trendin psychology is to take a look at the amount of joypeople experience. I foundthe most suggested test and chose to take it.
I recommend that you take the test also to see where it puts youin their scale of happiness.
This how the test is presented in the BBC News story:
"Psychologists say it is possible to measure your joy.
This test designed by psychologist Teacher Ed Diener fromthe University of Illinois, takes simply a minute to finish.
To discover how happy you are simply look at the five statements listed below and choose whether youagree or disagree making use of a 1-7 scale.
Kindly be open and honest in your responding - remember your responses are totally personal.
As soon as you have responded to allfive concerns press send and we will certainly calculate your rating. You will then have theability to read Professor Diener's analysis." Source BBC
The link to the test is here
When I got my outcomes back I found that I was Highly Pleased:
People who score in this range like their lives andfeel that things are going very well. Your life is not best, but you feel it has to do with as good as lifegets. Furthermore, just since you are satisfied does not mean you arecomplacent. In fact, growth and difficultymight be part of the factor you are satisfied. For most people in this high-scoring variety, life is enjoyable, and the significant domains of life are workingout - work or school, household, buddies, leisure, and individual development.
The issue that I see with this test is that they suggest for me toscore this high my life must be working out, work,family and friends. In fact my joy does not depend on any of those aspects. My life enjoys since my internal area is happy. I haveactually been happy even when I had no work or cash or good friends!
Sadly tests and information such as thisevaluation assistance and promote the myth that happiness depends on the external world of great, tasks, friends and family. In fact ourlife challenge is to rise up and move beyond this dependency to the place where we are cheerful, delighted and euphoric for no factor, and continue withthat energy when others discover need to be sad!
