110 Types Of Happiness

Happiness is a trendy word and that’s wonderful, but what does it really mean?

Being able to answer this question with accuracy is important, because to understand the causes and effects of happiness, you first need to be able to define it.

Happiness, then, is commonly defined as the state of being happy, and often tentatively explained with synonym words such as pleasure, contentment, satisfaction, cheerfulness, merriment, gaiety, joy, joyfulness, joviality, jollity, glee, delight, good spirits, lightheartedness, well-being, enjoyment; exuberance, exhilaration, elation, ecstasy, jubilation, rapture, bliss, blissfulness, and euphoria.

This definition sweeps so large that it reminds me of a joke by Woody Allen: “I once took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in 15 minutes. It’s about Russia.”

Personally I prefer the definition of researcher Sonja Lyubomirsky who says that happiness is the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one’s life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile.

How do you get that?

Laughter can help a lot in that it can shift your inner chemistry, electrical patterns and vibrational rate and through that create a pool of attraction for a different way of being in the world, but it’s not a complete answer however. More needs to be done.

Below are 110 different types of happiness. This list barely scratches the surfaces of what happiness means to different people but it’s as good a good place to start as any.

Go through it, find words you resonate with , ask yourself what you could do in your own life to make someone close to you feel like that and then do it, word by word and day by day. Yes, you may have to spend a few day or weeks on any particular word and that’s OK. Do it as if Nike was sponsoring you millions of $/year to do it (and add lots of laughter in the mix!)

The secret of getting what you want is called doing, not thinking. More specifically it’s about doing the 6 P’s: practice, patience, perseverance, passion, planning and prioritization.

Enjoy this project (if you dare to accept it) and success to you!