It is there to assist us in disengagements, a flight or fight response, or to attack. Positive emotions play the opposite role, helping us to “broaden our abiding intellectual, physical, and social resources, building up reserves we can draw upon when a threat or opportunity presents itself.” People with high positive affect do not feel good all the time but just more often than those who don’t. However, positive emotion can undo the negative emotions, based on the happiness formula. The equation is ‘H=S + C + V’. Seligman explains each of the factors which are H(enduring level of happiness), S(set range), C(circumstances in your life), and V(factors under your voluntary control). For example, he proposes that in circumstances it represents money, marriage, social life, negative emotion, age, health, education, climate, race, gender, and religion. He looks at to what extent these factors are relevant to
It is there to assist us in disengagements, a flight or fight response, or to attack. Positive emotions play the opposite role, helping us to “broaden our abiding intellectual, physical, and social resources, building up reserves we can draw upon when a threat or opportunity presents itself.” People with high positive affect do not feel good all the time but just more often than those who don’t. However, positive emotion can undo the negative emotions, based on the happiness formula. The equation is ‘H=S + C + V’. Seligman explains each of the factors which are H(enduring level of happiness), S(set range), C(circumstances in your life), and V(factors under your voluntary control). For example, he proposes that in circumstances it represents money, marriage, social life, negative emotion, age, health, education, climate, race, gender, and religion. He looks at to what extent these factors are relevant to