While some psychologists busy suffering of the people and is doing tricks with their intellect, others use their knowledge to measure the amount of happiness in the world. Renowned American psychologist Martin Seligmanpridumal for this search term - positive psychology . (Obviously, the rest of psychology is considered a negative or neutral.) Introduction to Positive psychology is a great boon. As a future expert can say that standing on the threshold of the opening formula of happiness, and you will play longer than an ordinary psychologist. If you believe that happiness - is the pursuit of pleasure, such as gambling or dashing driving, think again.

According to Seligman, there are three elements: a life filled with meaningful, interesting life and a happy life. Just a good life is not mentioned anywhere, although the possibility of breeding pigs with Felicity Kendall is probably for someone embodiment of his dreams. It is believed that life is filled with meaning, if there is a place for family, religion, or club games in town. Interesting life means engaging "in the mainstream" of his case, like the violin or smoking marijuana. Key name in this field of psychology belongs Mihai Csikszentmihalyi, author of the bestseller Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience ". If you can pronounce the name, you will be one step ahead of his contemporaries (it employs the rule of "the audacity - the second Happiness"). A happy life involves laughter, good health and fun. No surprises.

Positive psychology is aimed at increasing human happiness and welfare. Most of the exercises can be reduced to good to others and myself, everything is quite simple. Most surprising is not that this method works, but how few people use it in ordinary days. In one study, psychologists analyzed the writings of nuns of the reasons for their departure to the monastery. Only a third of them used positively stained words, telling of his plans. After 50 years, were still alive more than 90% of nuns with positive attitudes and only 50% of nuns with a negative attitude. Therefore, to be happy just, and it may extend your life. The hardest part, as shown by the example of the nuns, to change their "habits".