Happiness and unhappiness is controlled by the brain, which in turn is a result of various hormonal reactions. There are so many studies on which hormones are responsible for the feeling of 'well being' and 'distress'. There is a purpose behind someone being happy or unhappy, which is an integral part of survival of individual and groups in the short term context and evolution of life forms in the larger long term context. Happiness has no meaning unless there is unhappiness. The vice versa is also true. So, both has to exist within the same individual and among individuals. So, one can never be happy or unhappy always.

Dear Manoj Chandran ,

Thanks for informative answer.

Happyness is a state, although we live in a constantly changing world. I agree that the brain is responsible for understanding the feeling of happiness, although for the brain to work the body must be healthy. Hence nutrition and exercise of the body is important. In addition, other indicators such as access to clean resources, human rights and more, community, values, etc.

Are key features of living happily. To maintain the happiness state, several social and cultural beliefs that drive us away from materialism and closer to self love can achieve the level called "Bliss". Personally I use the metaphor "Sustainability feels like bliss" , because sustainability is a state, where (sustainable) development is not. A principal that we mix up in our daily language.

Feel free to discuss.

Dear Elena Paschali ,

Thanks alot. It is nice reply. Could you please be a little bit precise in enlisting the control parameters of "happiness"?

Kind regards.

Dear @P.K.Karmakar,

This is my question too!

Who can be responsible to dictate happiness? I think this is a question of what do we want to do? Also what are we willing to sacrifice (future generations' happiness).

We now have enough knowledge to steer a society to non addictive behaviors that cause us to be unhappy.

Unfortunately such a concept as well as reaching Sustainability (in other words Sust.development) are not constant but must be unified.

Hence we have come up with human rights etc.

I think one person can not decide on what it is that makes us happy. But I know one thing that makes everyone happy that is not measured by HDI, HPI, etc.

Of course I am taking about love. What do you think? More opinions can shape up this discussion. Which parameters shape our societies? For example should internet be a human right?

Best regards.

Dear @ Elena Paschali,

Thanks a lot for sharing your viewpoints with us. Accordingly, it seems that the sustenance of "happiness" is possible if and only if we well pre-fulfill the fundamental rights (to food, cloth, shelter, and the new, emedia).

It is nicely realizable that "love" acts a positive catalytic agent (glue) to mediate the real sense of "happiness" among us .

It is finally believed that many experts from the RG forum would come forward to enlighten and torch upon the thematic discussion of our current philosophical mutualistic interest.

Kind regards,

PK Karmakar

Tezpur University

You might want to look up the concept of Salutogenesis. The idea is that one can promote the positive, rather than repress the negative. Well, that concept is related to health, but probably can be extended to happiness. Objective vs Subjective Well-Being, as it were.

Douglas Nuttall ,

Thank you so much.

I fully agree with you in this backdrop.

Manoj Chandran ,

Thanks for your informative answers.

Sustain Happiness in Your Relationship:

Thanks for your viewpoints.

Happiness can be sustained by self-satisfaction

Thanks a lot for valuable contribution

Happiness, in my opinion, could be sustained by continuing to kill tensions before they kill you

But what is the cause of tension? In fact, lack of self-satisfaction is the root cause of tension.

Tensions are normally multiparametric and multifactorial in nature --- however, may be reducible to solvable and removable forms

Confinement of Happiness needs all the odd factors to be kept far away positively

According to me, the confinement of Happiness can be done, subject to availability, as follows:

(1) Identify the source of your Happiness,

(2) Personalize the source and keep it with you subject to availability,

(3) If the above fail, try to surrender to the source