Are You Happy?

Before you read any further, stop and answer the question:  "How happy are you?" and answer it with a number from 1 - 10 (10 being the highest level of happiness).

While that question seems an arbitrary, non-scientific way to determine a person's level of happiness, some scientists are saying that the answers produced are valid and predict things about the rest of our lives ... for instance, how long we'll live and how effective we will be in our lives.  BBC produced a six-part series on happiness which you can see here.

So, what was your answer?

Comments

[almomento]

I think that happiness is a lot like a river that flows in and out of our life. We are sometimes more happy, sometimes less. I also think that we should accept the fact that it is ok for us not to be happy, just as it is ok for us to be happy - it is just a fact of life. My happiness level on the scale of 1-5 is probably 3.5

almomento (Personal Development Blogger)
http://burstcreativity.com

[Nutster]

My answer is that I have increased my happiness for 3.25 to 3.7 on a scale of 5 over the last year. This matches the intrinsic way that I have been feeling. Seligman provides a battery of tests and information on happiness over at

http://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/

Can any of us really say we are happy? Happiness is a nebulous concept when you start putting the thinking to it. I always thought that I was...but I felt a little smug putting the label to it. Now, I just try to be "happier" all the time. I started from a fairly nice place and, now, am happily moving up the continuum...a path that I hope continues.