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Timmy

Final blog

                     

         In my own
opinion a person who always has a positive outlook on life are more likely to
be successful in life. When a person is constantly doubting themselves, or always
looking on the bad side of things. This will cause the person to create
insecurities and get in the way of certain obstacles in life. Obstacles in life
like getting a job or even on your pursuit of love. If a person is always
thinking that they are not good or smart enough to achieve anything. All they
must realize is that everybody has something they are good at. If a person just
believes in themselves and apply their skills to the fullest  extent they would find that it easier to
function in a work environment. Also if a person thinks positive about certain
things such as going on an interview and working in different environments.

After taking my eng101 class I’ve become more of a positive
thinker myself. I used to always think that my life was a joke and I was never
allowing myself to pursue my goals. In the class I’ve been inspired to live a
happy life. Ive learned all different things that I can do to avoid not living
a happy life. Also I’ve learned that if you have motivation to do good and always
look with a positive perspective.  with
all the knowledge of what can be done to better my life I hope to be very
succeccefull  in life.

what can you gain from positive thinking?

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what can a person get from positive thinking?

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Timothy Giral

   “A person who believes that they can be truly healthy but not happy isn’t truly happy.”(Timothy Giral)

          With all this medicine out there people rely on them solely to feel better when getting sick. Is medicine the only thing that can better the way you feel? I feel that a person’s happiness level can play an important role in someone’s health. I am not the only person who seems to believe that when a person has a cold and are exposed to laughter can make a person feel better than someone who has no reason to laugh. Also how laughter can make you feel better and forget about your personal problems. Also, how fun and laughter can help you cope with being scared of something that is about to happen like getting a shot. And making someone with cancer happier can help them feel better. Being happy has a lot to do with allowing yourself to feel better about certain things. Laughter is a major thing that can make a person happier. If a person can exclude certain things that has a negative effect on their lives, and focus on something that will allow them to either feel better or forget the current problems.

  If a person has a cold or isn’t feeling good it is always good to try to get there mind off their sickness. Let’s say you have a cold or even a fever if you decide to stay in your house all the time it may feel depressing. By doing something that will put a smile on your face can make you feel better. I myself even tested this out. It was so ironic that when I had to read the laughing guru I got sick. I remembered what James Walsh (An American physician) believed that “laughter has a favorable impact on the mind influences various functions of the body and makes them healthier” (T.P.O.H 84) And I did exactly what he suggested. I watch my favorite comedy movie of all times “The Hangover” and it didn’t cure my cold but I defiantly felt much better. Also if you are going through hard or emotional time laughter can be a big help in getting through it.

    Hard times such as, not being able to pay your bills or when your job lets you go. Or when you are having problems with your girlfriend is getting to the point where it is affecting the way you feel. If you just simply apply all that negative thoughts and energy to something positive you will feel much better. For instants “laughing yoga’’ as described in the laughing guru. It is a form of yoga that you force yourself to laugh and eventually it will turn to a natural laugh. This will make you feel better. Also let’s say you bring your child to a doctor’s office to get a shot and they know what’s about to happen. Do think the comfort level of your child would be good if they were just sitting there waiting for the shots. Or being able to play with toys will allow them to cope with the intensity of getting a shot by getting their mind off of it? In the pathologies of hope article by Barbara Ehrenreich states that it is better to have a positive outlook on things so it can go by better. Also I can have to do with the environment you are in.

   Let’s say you were a cancer patient and you have no reason to believe that you still have a chance to live. And you are in a very depressing area why would you want to live. Imagine being really sick in a hospital with people dying around you every day. And each day that passes you slowly give up hope because you don’t know when you will be next. Wouldn’t you want to be in a place where you would want to wake up in everyday? In the movie Patch Adams, an ex-mental patient realizes that a person if happy is able to overcome a lot of issues while sick. He secretly opens up his own hospital not only to help them medically but to offer them hope and happiness while doing so. And this movie is a great source to make people believe that being happier can make you healthier.

    I stand strong in the idea that happiness and laughter can help a person become healthier. I never really thought about how the impact of a person’s happiness can either make or break a person’s health until I had to research it. From seeing my friends and from personal experiences I notice that when you are depressed or unhappy you can become very sick. Two years ago my best friend for16 years past died in a car accident. She was killed by a drunk driver. I never knew how life without her could be. I notice now that depression was taking over my body and mind. I was rapidly losing weight and not wanting to do anything with myself. Every day I woke to the thought of the night my friend died.  I just seen her before she left to go home that’s the crazy part. But I’ll leave that for another paper. My point is that I was doing really badly. Until I realized that I’m still living and I can’t destroy my life by being depressed I slowly did more positive things to make me happy like finishing school etc. Now I can say that I am the happiest I’ve ever been.

   A person’s happiness can play a major role in a person’s health. By laughing and thinking positive it can get you by easier and healthier. Also how doing things to get your mind of off problems can help you get by. I feel that everyone has the power to make them happier and healthier. Everything I argued isn’t able to cure anything it will only help. The reason I feel happiness is a big deal in someone’s health is because if a person is already fighting a certain sickness off. Then it would be easier to do so if you were depressed and worried about that other than being sick.  

BLOG NUMBER 5 CONT...

Sacrifice vs. Sharing

 

  In happier the author talks a lot about the way a person can sacrafice and sharing can improve ones happines. By helping others one can make themselves feel better about themselves. I honestly belive that if you do something nice to someone it will come back to you in some from of way. The other day for instence i was waiting for the train. THe train came and i saw all the passengers were on the oppitsite side of the train cart. i saw that there was a homless man or woman sitting there and i was wondering "what if that was me?". So i took my northfsce coat off and gave it to him or her. HE/she didnt even notice that i gave it to them . i didnt even get a thank you  and that mad my action even more rewardable and i was extremly happy after words.

 

THE CORE SELF

 

  The core self as explained in happier is a persons side that not isnt visable to everyones eyes. It is a persons deep inner feelings and beliefs. Like me, i am a very loving person. I am very caring.And I am a very fun and joyfull person to be around. Those are all prime examples of my core self. Now not everyones coreself is going to be positive. A person can have a greedy,hateful,neglectful core self.

 

BLOG NUMBER 5

Cultivating vs Finding

      Do you spend alot of time looking for someone who is perfect for you? Dont you think that it would be easier to make that person. Well in the article happiness in relationships the author talks about the differnces in cultivating a relationship or finding the perfect macth.Cultivating in a sense means that you are trying to work with what you have to make it a great relationship. The author arguees that working on and building a relationship is better than searching for the right one and keep on getting disapointed.I feel that a person is better off trying to build a relationship. The reason i say that is because it will build something much more than just love, but trust devotion and most importantly a friendship.

 

 

 

 

 

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Timothy Giral

   “A person who believes
that they can be truly healthy but not happy isn’t truly happy.”(Timothy Giral)

          With all this medicine out there people rely
on them solely to feel better when getting sick. Is medicine the only thing
that can better the way you feel? I feel that a person’s happiness level can play
an important role in someone’s health. I am not the only person who seems to believe
that when a person has a cold and are exposed to laughter can make a person
feel better than someone who has no reason to laugh. Also how laughter can make
you feel better and forget about your personal problems. Also how fun and
laughter can help a person feel better from the intensity of waiting for a
shot. To someone with cancer living longer because of a happier environment.

     If a person has a
cold or isn’t feeling good it is always good to try to get there mind off their
sickness. Let’s say you have a cold or even a fever if you decide to stay in
your house all the time it may feel depressing. Then doing something, which
will put a smile on your face to get your mind off of being sick. I myself even
tested this out. It was so ironic that when I had to read the laughing guru I got
sick. I remembered what Richard Mulcaster a humanist educator believed. “Laughter
produced warmth throughout the body and was a good antidote for colds, headaches
and bouts of melancholy.” He believed. And I did exactly what he suggested. I watch
my favorite comedy movie of all times “The Hangover” and it didn’t cure my cold
but I defiantly felt much better. Also if you are going through hard or
emotional time laughter can be a big help in getting through it.

    Times when a
person can barely pay the bills because your job let you go. Or when you are
having problems with your girlfriend is getting to the point where it is
affecting the way you feel. If you just simply apply all that negative thoughts
and energy to something positive you will feel much better. For instants “laughing
yoga’’ as described in the laughing guru. It is a form of yoga that you force
yourself to laugh and eventually it will turn to a natural laugh. Which will
make you feel better. Also let’s say you bring your child to a doctor’s office
to get a shot and they know what’s about to happen. Do think the comfort level
of your child would be good if they were just sitting there waiting for the
shots. Or being able to play with toys will allow them to cope with the intensity
of getting a shot by getting their mind off of it? In the pathologies of hope
article by Barbara Ehrenreich states that it is better to have a positive outlook
on things so it can go by better. Also I can have to do with the environment
you are in.

   Lets say you were a
cancer patient and you have no reason to believe that you still have a chance
to live. And you are in a very depressing area why would you want to live. A person
in a hospital with people dying all around them how you would be able to cope
with it when you feel like you’ll be next. Wouldn’t you want to be in a place
where you would want to wake up in everyday? In the movie Patch  Adams , a ex mental patient realizes that a
person if happy is able to overcome a lot of issues while sick. He secretly
opens up his own hospital not only to help them medically but to offer them
hope and happiness while doing so. And this movie is a great source to make
people belive that being happier can make you healthier.

   A person’s
happiness can play a major role in a person’s health. By laughing and thinking
positive it can get you by easier and healthier. Also how doing things to get
your mind of off problems can help you get by. I feel that everyone has the
power to make someone happier.

thesis and sourse

In many ways happiness plays a major role in a persons health.

http://psychcentral.com/news/2006/11/07/happiness-enhances-health/392.html

TIMOTHY GIRAL

ENGLISH 101

                Everyone is searching for someone to love. People believe that there is someone out there for everyone. Now, the thing about that is that there are over eight billion people in this world. So, what happens if the person that is right for you is all the way in Japan and you are here in New York? My answers to that one is stop looking for the perfect match and try to find someone you can grow with and build a type of relationship using “THE SCIENCE OF HAPPINES”. The science of happiness is excluding things that may have a negative impact on your happiness and replacing it with something with a positive impact .By applying the science to a newly established relationship can multiply the positive outcomes of the relationship and make both parties happier people. A couple can have a healthier relationship by avoiding fights. Also growing as a couple and building an unconditional love from both sides of the relationship.

Being happy in life is every ones goal. Achieving happiness on the other hand takes a lot of work. To most people the idea of wanting to have a person to love them is an important  aspect in life. In a relationship there would definitely be problems if you aren’t happy. if you feel that you aren’t happy there is many things that you can do to make it work. The science of happiness consists of many things. Such as hot and cold states. If a person is upset In a relationship is upset and starts an argument and it builds up to a big fight. They must be careful with what they say because they are in a hot sate. Instead of not arguing and then waiting till they cool off and have a normal conversation in a cold state.” It sounds like a goof, but it gets at the fundamental difference between how we behave in a “HOT STATE” (those of anxiety, courage, and fear)and “COLD STATES”OF RATIONAL CALM”(STATED BY LOEWIENSTIEIN in a futile pursuit of happiness.) Unless you have a healthy relationship you will not be able to be happy. So, if you feel  that your relationship isn’t healthy you can cultivate it by using ,most of the approaches given.

Everyone has their flaws. its how you cope with them and if you are willing to adapt to those flaws. Like in my current relationship me and my partner have this type of relationship that we think that each of our flaws are funny to one another. It can get on either one of our nerves but we don’t let it affect us to the point where we aren’t happy with each other. Now the problem that lies in my relationship is that we don’t agree on certain things. Such as who is more mature, who is right, and who is wrong. Ever since I began my journey with Dr. McCormick I have learned how to apply everything I have learned in class to my relationship. In cultivating my relationship I have found that sometimes you must put aside your differences in the relationship. I see my relationship as a story I will be able to tell one day in the future and I know that we are still young. But we also are growing together as friends.” The mistaken notion that finding love guarantees eternal bliss and leads partners to neglect the journey.” (A statement in happiness in a relationship) . I strongly agree with that statement because people just look for what is perfect for them and miss out on the fun quality times in getting to know your partner. Gaining the ability to give and receive unconditional love.

When somebody loves you for who you are and nothing else that is called unconditional love. See this comes rarely almost never honestly speaking. First a person must build up so much love for another person and spend time with them. I feel if you get to the point of unconditional love you have reached the point of your relationship that you can be truly happy in the relationship aspect. Some people believe that it is a myth .” when a man falls in love with a woman, he does so for certain conscious or unconscious reasons.( stated in the unconditional love part of happiness in relationships)” meaning you don’t know that you have that type of love you just do. I feel that if you cultivate and use the method talked in this paper you can achieve happiness in your relationship. You just have to work on it.

By applying the science of happiness to your relationship you can go far in that relationship. By using the scientific method you can increase your happiness. Also by cultivating a relationship  can bring unconditional love.it all takes time and effort. One must be patient and don’t expect it to happen so soon. Remember Rome wasn’t built in a day.

WORK CITED

1 A FUITLE PURSUIT  OF HAPPINESS by DAN GILBERT\

2 HAPPIER IN COURSE PACKET.

thank you

TIMOTHY GIRAL

BLOG NUMBER 6

  

         Around this time of year I always get ask the same question. “What are you thankful for?” I never really thought about it till now because I have to think about it for my blog. There are many things that I can say I am thankful for first is my family. Without my family I honestly have nothing to live for. I am thankful that my family stood by my side through all my ups and downs. Another blessing in my life is that I can actually go to college and experience things that some people can’t for different reasons. Also I can say that I am thankful for life. Life can be a beautiful thing you just got to play your cards right. I feel that a lot of people don’t live their lives to the fullest potential. Now that im older it is time for me to give back to the world for treating me so well.

oh happy day,,,,,

TIMOTHY GIRAL

ENGLISH 101

                Everyone
is searching for someone to love. People believe that there is someone out
there for everyone. Now, the thing about that is that there is over eight
billion people in this world. So, what happens if the person that is right for
you is all the way in Japan and you are here in New York? My answer to that one
is stop looking for the perfect match and try to find someone you can grow with
and build a type of relationship using “THE SCIENCE OF HAPPINES”. By applying
the science to a newly established relationship can multiply the positive outcomes
of the relationship and make both parties happier people. A couple can have  a healthier relationship by avoiding fights. Also
growing as a couple and building an unconditional love from both sides of the
relationship.

Being happy in life is every ones
goal. Achieving  happiness on the other
hand takes a lot of work. To most people the idea of wanting  to have a person  To love them is an important  aspect in life. In a relationship there would
definitely be problems if you aren’t happy. if you feel that you aren’t happy
there is many things that you can do to make it work. The science of happiness
consist of many things. Such as hot and cold states. If a person is upset In a
relationship is upset and starts an argument and it builds up to a big fight. They
must be careful with what they say because they are in a hot sate. Instead of
not arguing and then waiting till they cool off and have a normal conversation in
a cold state.” It sounds like a goof, but it gets at the fundamental difference
between how we behave in a “HOT STATE” (those of anxiety, courage, and fear)and
“COLD STATES”OF RATIONAL CALM”(STATED BY LOEWIENSTIEIN in a futile pursuit of
happiness.) Unless you have a healthy relationship you will not be able to be
happy. So, if you feel  that your
relationship isn’t healthy you can cultivate it by using ,most of the approaches
given.

Everyone has their flaws. its how
you cope with them and if you are willing to adapt to those flaws. Like in my
current relationship me and my partner have this type of relationship that we
think that each of our flaws are funny to one another. It can get on either one
of our nerves but we don’t let it affect us to the point where we aren’t happy
with each other. Now the problem that lies in my relationship is that we don’t agree
on certain things. Such as who is more mature, who is right, and who is wrong. Ever
since I began my journey with Dr. McCormick I have learned how to apply
everything I have learned in class to my relationship. In cultivating my
relationship I have found  that some
times you must put aside your differences in the relationship. I see my relationship
as a story I will be able to tell one day in the future and I know that we are still
young. But we also are growing together as friends.” The mistaken notion that
finding love guarantees eternal bliss and leads partners to neglect the journey.”
(A statement in happiness in a relationship) . I strongly agree with that
statement because people just look for what is perfect for them and miss out on
the fun quality times in getting to know your partner. Gaining the ability to
give and receive unconditional love.

When somebody loves you for who you
are and nothing else that is called unconditional love. See this comes rarely almost
never honestly speaking. First a person must build up so much love for another
person and spend time with them. I feel if you get to the point of
unconditional love you have reached the point of your relationship that you can
be truly happy in the relationship aspect. Some people belive that it is a myth
.” when a man falls in love with a woman, he does so for certain conscious or
unconscious reasons.( stated in the unconditional love part of happiness in
relationships)” meaning you don’t know that you have that type of love you just
do. I feel that if you cultivate and use the method talked in this paper you
can achieve happiness in your relationship. You just have to work on it.

By applying the science of happiness
to your relationship you can go far in that relationship. By using the
scientific method you can increase your happiness. Also by cultivating a
relationship  can bring unconditional love.it
all takes time and effort. One must be patient and don’t expect it to happen so
soon. Remember rome wasent built in a day.

work

Timothy  Giral

Blog number 4

      In high school I was the type to not want to be at school. But, when I wasn’t in school I was working in a Laundromat which was my first job ever. I was the type to rather make money then to go to school for no reason. When you are young a lot of people just want to have fun. And that’s what I thought I was doing “HAVING FUN”. When in all reality I was hurting myself.

   Having a job that you aren’t satisfied with can really affect your happiness. My job at the Laundromat was a really bad place to work at. I had a lot of responsibilities and such little pay. My manager treated me like a puppy dog. I was working there for a year and not attending school. Until I said to myself “timothy what are you doing?” and I answered. “I honestly don’t know.” I made a goal to go back to school and graduate. That was my best chose in life ever.

    Now I feel that I have all the power to gain a job that I will be very happy with. I feel that if you have job like the one I did, and you honestly feel that you are too good for that job it will affect your happiness. Because you can become depressed and let your feelings affect your everyday life. In time these feelings will grow and get worst. In doing so you will become miserable with yourself and never go for achieving your full potential.

  I never want to become a person who is not satisfied with his or hers life. That is why I quit my job at the Laundromat and got a new one. I am not truly happy with this job but I do need money to get me through college. And I am very happy to say that I am going to become something ,even though I do not know what yet. I know I’m going to be happy with what I choose to become.

what can i do?

Timothy  Giral

ENGLISH PAPER 1

   Many times I find myself asking the same questions over and over again. “How can I make my college Experience the best time in my life? Is college really going to make me happy? And, how can I work on making myself happier by furthering my education?” These questions run through my mind constantly. These thoughts are a part of how I can put all my skills and knowledge to better my experience in school and also become a happier person with gaining an education.

     What I have realized is that I have already accomplished a big goal in my life that not a lot of people haven’t and that’s graduating high school. Now I have a greater goal on my plate and that’s college. I feel that the only way I can make it a happy experience is by opening up to what my school has to offer me. Right now I am in my transitioning phase of college. I am trying to get use to my surroundings and get into college Life.  I am a very social person but noticed that you can’t always try to make friends because that’s how you get caught up. But I feel that it is on me to separate my school life with my personal life. In order to happily get through college and not be miserable the whole time one must figure out what they want to do and take it one step at a time.

    In order to better my education I must set certain goals and keep to these goals. I never really was the type to set goals and actually go through with them. But, what I have realized is that I must join all my strengths to see what goals I can set to better myself in my educational career . In viewing all these text and videos and listing to my teacher talk about happiness I have recently set a couple of goals to achieve happiness in education. These goals are 1. Be able to be confident in passing all my courses. 2. Always be ready to do something regarding school work .3. And don’t allow my negative feelings get into the way of me gaining happiness in my success in education. All these goals I feel are easy to achieve I chose these goals as my first steps in becoming successful in college. But I also have my flaws.

    I must first realize that I have never fully understood how I can accomplish all my goals. There are many things that I must correct in order to be at peace with my education. I must first stop letting myself get discouraged when I mess up. Stop listing to people that try to bring me down and allow myself to grow in my educational career. Also stop reacting thing in ways I shouldn’t react in when I am under pressure like how in the article “the futile pursuit of happiness “ that talks about hot states and cold states. When I am under pressure I tend to react differently towards certain situations than I would if I was not under pressure which is reacting in a hot state .A hot state meaning acting when not in a calm state of mind. Reacting in a cold state means being more calm and collective with yourself. I tend to have more hot states then cold but I must learn how to deal with hot states like I would if I was in a cold state in order to become more open to my opportunities in life.

    In order for me to become happy I must find what is right for me. Honestly speaking I really do not know what I must become to be happy just yet. However, I do know what I must do in order to be something that will satisfy my goals in happiness. I must do everything I can now. Such as build up my education so when it comes time to decide what I must become to be happy that I am actually able to do it. I must first stick with continuing my education. Explore and learn about different things I might be interested in. Also keep a positive outlook on life regardless of all the negative energy around me. Becoming a happy person isn’t the easiest thing to accomplish because of the simple fact that we can’t truly say what will make us happy until we are actually happy. My question is how can we know for sure that what we are doing in school is the right path to happiness? There are people with degrees that aren’t even happy. So do I really need an education to be happy? NO I don’t . but it does feel good to know I have accomplished something that few do accomplished and that might give me a better outlook on life.

   In the end I hope that I can look back at my life and say that I have lived a good life and worked hard on my education so that one day I can have a great job because of it. Also to see how I got see how I come out of all the challenges life throws my way. I can’t even imagine were my path lies. I never want to be disappointed in myself and I must never give up on my goals in pursuing my education. And I hope that my English 101 class can actually help me figure out what path I am going to choose to be happy.

    

BLOG NUMBER 2

ENGLISH 101-BLOG NUMBER TWO

                   Have you ever asked yourself “What am I going to do with my life?” or “How am I going to accomplish it?” I know I ask myself that every day. I wonder what my life is destined to become and the challenges life has in store for me. I really can’t say how I would go about handling what life throws at me. And I actually look forward to the outcome of these challenges. One thing I know is that this is the time in my life where I begin building the foundation of my life.

            In the present time I see that my decisions now are going to affect me in the future. I currently graduated High school and I feel that is a very big achievement because not many people actually do that. But see it doesn’t end there that was just a starter. See, I view life as if I am eating at a restaurant like the Olive Garden. You have an appetizer, which is what I have done so far (elementary school, junior high, and high school) now it’s time for the main course. “ the most important time in your life. For me this means furthering my education, and planting my roots in this world. Also finding out what I’m going to do with my life. At this current moment I can’t really share with everyone what I’m going to do because I don’t even know myself. But for now I’m going to college and I’m studying business. Looking forward for my dessert, which can be the type of dessert I wish I never ordered or the dessert that satisfies me and I enjoy. For those who don’t really get metaphors I mean retirement and being happy with my self and of course I am not perfect and I have a lot to work on to become happy.

      I feel like a lot of things that are going on in my life is affecting my happiness. In a bad way because a lot of people around me bring me down and make me feel  like it is imposable for me to achieve my goals. But I see it as a motivation to prove everyone wrong. And I feel that with out all this pain and struggle one cant truly have happiness in there lives. My biggest problem is that I care to much what people think about me. And I know that I have a lot of growing up to do. But once I learn how to not take peoples opinion on me so seriously and gain maturity I will be able to achieve happiness. Another problem with me is that I tend to get scared of the future and feel that certain things that might happen will hurt me so much. Like in the article “ Futile pursuit of happiness by  Jon Gertner ‘’ where he shows the idea of forcasting. George Loewenstien states that forcasting is when a person thinks about the future and the outcome of certain events and how they would be affected by it. In my case I let my thoughts get in the way of me being happy. Just like he explained in the article. And I know that I shouldn’t let it get to me.

 I have a lot I must work on before I can actually become happy. Everything comes down to my decisions I make right now . At this point I do not regret any decisions I have made in my life. I know I have all the opportunity to be happy. I just have to work on a lot of things like making sure I pass English 101 for instance. To me that’s a start and all the rest will come in time.

blog number one

Timothy Giral

Blog assignment number one

  When reading the article “The Futile Pursuit Of Happiness” by Jon Gertner, at first I really was not interested in the text. I gave it a chance and as I got deeper into the article ironically I said to myself that this text isn’t half bad. Some of the topics that they spoke about was actually really interesting. Such as, How evolution has a lot to do with a person ’s ability to be happy. Also the theory of having a of having a psychological immune system and the theory of adaptation.

   The theory of Adaptation was my favorite  topic that was discussed in the article . The reason why this is my favorite topic out of the few other interesting topics is because I feel that a lot of concepts it consist of actually happens. For example “HOT and COLD states” when a person is frustrated hey tend to do things differently than if they were in a cold state where you are more calm and collective. Like the time I saw my friend getting into a fight I reacted in a hot state and jumped in. In the end I wished I reacted in a cold state rather than hot because the police got involved this issue. Forecasting is the way a person can imagine a scenario and imagine there feelings of the outcome of it. This concept is very interesting because its true. I feel that it is true because I cant even to begin to imagine how I would feel if I lost everything in my life. See what the people in the article is trying to say is that not everything that seems to us as a bad thing is always a bad thing. Ted Gilbert’s studies say that someone who one a lottery is as equally as happy as someone who cant walk .Now which one do you think would make you happier? Personally I would not rather any of these choices. The reason I say that is because with money comes stress and not being able to walk comes with not being able to do many things.

    Another topic that was discussed in the article is having a psychological immune system. Which is suppose to prepare and protect you mentally. This is just a metaphor but actually is true. A person can go through a lot of hard times for example bad relationships. If a person is constantly getting hurt by their mates after a while it won’t even phase them after a while. In Studying happiness you can gain a lot of knowledge on how the body simulates happiness and you can actually learn on how you can make your life happier. Thanks to all the people in the article I have a better understanding on how happiness works.