Thursday, June 12, 2014

Vision for the Dynamic Spread of Happiness


Imagine a world where you can see individual happiness on a global scale like we monitor gas and electricity.

Imagine a world where each person knows a clear understanding of happiness so it becomes natural like breathing air and drinking water.

Happiness becomes the same birth right and natural flow of life like breathing and drinking.

Imagine a world where older brothers and sisters who are working on advanced levels of contentment and bliss help their younger siblings achieve the basics of emotional empowerment, sustained positive mood and effortless resiliency. 

Imagine a world where organizations are public with the happiness of employees defined by a clear and standardized method of measuring emotional empowerment, positive mood, resiliency, contentment and bliss.

Imagine a world where hospitals offer methods of learning happiness science at the point of diagnosis since depression is likely to occur at that time. 

Depression hurts healing, happiness aids in healing.

Imagine a world where people no longer post ‘I want to kill myself” on the internet in hopes someone will save them.

Imagine families that thrive in their individual happiness instead of divorcing because your partner is not making you happy.

The world health organization predicts suicide to be the 2nd leading cause of mortality in 2020.  Suicide is caused by depression.  Depression is helped when positive psychology is adopted in daily lives.  It is taught in universities like Harvard, Stanford, and University of California yet it is being held from larger educational streams and the result is school shootings and increase in violence.

Imagine a world where people are taught how to be happy like how we learn math.

Empowerment = Arithmetic
Positive Mood =  Algebra
Resiliency =  Geometry
Contentment = Pre- Calculus
Bliss = Calculus

There are clear steps and clear answers.

Each step is interrelated as depicted in my Sustainable Happiness 5 Step Process Model




Happiness no longer is an elusive mirage you complain about behind 4 closed walls with a confidentiality agreement and a trained professional who could be depressed themselves!

Imagine a world where someone asks you “How are you?” and the answer “Happy!” does not shock them.

According to the National Institute of health, people seek 3-5 different methods to help them become happier. This means happiness has NO Direct KNOWN path of improvement.

According to the National Institute of Health, 25% of cases of Depression are treated effectively. This means WE ARE FAILING!

Depression is likely, treatment is wavering, results of suicide increasing.

Where is happiness science?!

I have a vision for a technology to be implemented based in the 20 years of happiness research I have been a part of.

My methods are endorsed by Dr. Tal Ben Shahar , first happiness professor of Harvard , Dr Sonja Lyubomirsky Happiness Increase Professor at UC Riverside, and a Psychiatrist / Diplomate of American Board of Psychiatry, Dr Walter Jacobson.

I have seen the benefits of happiness science cure mental and physical illness, I have seen flourishing from states of suicide. I have seen miracles happen for people who have given up hope and have done and seen it all.

From the standpoint of the individual, couple, family, community, organization, city, county, country and continental perspectives, I know we can teach happiness like math saving lives and changing the world.

I know we can improve the Global Well Being Index easily and systematically.

Would you like to contribute to this conversation?

Dr Aymee Coget
Sustainable Happiness Expert
Author of Forthcoming Book – Sustainable Happiness in 5 Steps

4 comments:

  1. WOW! This is fantastic! This is the world I want to strive for and be a part of. I think all people are searching for sustainable happiness and are unsure where to find it. It seems most of our world equates money with happiness only to find that there is still something missing. I truly believe learning to be internally happy will create an entirely new evolved human. a generation of people who find happiness within themselves will undoubtedly make this world a better place in ways we have yet to imagine! Lets do it Dr. Aymee :)

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  2. AND! imagine if each country measures their success by its peoples happiness! Like Bhutan!! Inspirational!

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  3. I'm all in! I share your passion for global education. I believe that if people were learning happiness and positive psychology principles at the grade level this would lead to a transformed society. One that would make wiser, more humanistic, more healing and more gratifying choices, which would prove to be better for the individual, the economy and the whole of humanity... Happiness is a choice, but it's more than that. Happiness is a healthy choice. A loving choice. A forgiving choice. Happiness has no downside. It manifests more happiness. So let us go forth and be happy. And let us be good role models for others as we all travel the road of happy destiny.

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  4. What a wonderful and proactive way to actually achieve global happiness. Thank you Dr. Aymee for leading the way in The World Happiness Makeover!

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