Helping the misconceptionthat joy is the objective of life.

If you have actually read a few of my other blog sitepieces you will certainly see that I consistently say that thereis a state beyond joy that can be the best objective inlife. Meanwhile mainstream science hasyet to catch up to this reality. One present trendin psychology is to look at the quantity of happiness individuals experience. I stumbled uponthe most suggested test and chose to take it.

I advise that you take the test also to see where it puts youin their scale of joy.

This how the test is presented in the BBC News story:

"Psychologists state it is possible to determine your joy.

This test designed by psychologist Teacher Ed Diener fromthe University of Illinois, takes simply a minute to complete.

To discover how delighted you are just take a look at the five statements listed below and choose whether you concur or disagree making use of a 1-7 scale.

Please be open and honest in your reacting - remember youranswers are absolutely private.

As soon as you have actually answered all 5 questions press send and we will certainly determine your score. You will certainly then be able to read Teacher Diener's analysis." Source BBC

The connect to the test is here

When I got my results back I discovered that I was ExtremelySatisfied:

Individuals who score in this variety love their lives andfeel that things are going extremely well. Your life is not best, but you feel it has to do with as good as lifegets. Furthermore, simply because you are pleased does not imply you are contented. In fact, growth and difficultymight be part of the factor you are pleased. For most people in this high-scoring variety, life is satisfying, and the significant domains of life are going well - work or school, family, good friends, leisure, andpersonal development.

The issue that I see with this test is that they suggest for me toscore this high my life should be working out, work, friends and family. In fact my happiness does not depend upon any of those aspects. My life is happy since my internal area enjoys. I haveactually enjoyed even when I had no work or cash or friends!

Unfortunately tests and details such as this assessment assistance and promote the myth that joy depends on the external world ofgood, tasks, family and friends. In fact ourlife challenge is to rise up and move beyond this dependency to the place where we are cheerful, happy and joyous for no factor, and continue withthat energy when others discover reason to be sad!

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