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Interested

1. The state of feeling or showing interest, sympathy or curiosity. 2. Possessing a right, claim, or stake.

Interest

1. A feeling of wanting to know or find out about something. 2. Interest is more consideration than attention and is, therefore, attention with intention. 3. Attention with an intention to give or attract attention. 4. A state of curiosity or concern about or attention to something. 5. A right, claim, or legal share: an interest in the new company. 6. Something in which such a right, claim or share is held. 7. A person or group of persons holding such a right, claim or share. 8. Involvement with or participation in something. 9. A charge for a loan, usually a percentage of the amount loaned.

Harmony

1. Agreement in feeling or opinion; accord. 2. A pleasing combination of musical sounds. 3. An orderly or pleasing combination of elements in a whole. 4. A relationship in which various components exist together without destroying one another. 5. A relationship characterized by a lack of conflict or by agreement, as of opinion or interest.

Smile

1. A happy or friendly expression on the face in which the ends of the mouth curve up slightly, often with the lips moving apart so that the teeth can be seen. 2. To have, produce, or exhibit a smile. 3. To look or regard with amusement or ridicule. 4. To bestow approval. 5. To appear pleasant, agreeable, and non-threatening. 6. Most smiles are fake. A genuine smile occurs when the corners of the mouth go up, the eyes narrow slightly creating crow’s feet, and the upper half of the cheeks rise. This is a direct result of feeling happy. Physiological changes include the heart beating faster, blood flow increasing and skin temperature rising.

Happiness

1. An emotional state of well-being which includes positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. 2. Feeling or showing pleasure, contentment or joy. 3. A pleasurable or satisfying experience. 4. Feeling satisfied that something is right, or is being done right. 5. Philosophers often define happiness in terms of living a good life, or flourishing, rather than simply as an emotion. Happiness in this sense was used to translate the Greek eudaimonia. 6. The emotions associated with feeling happy are involuntarily controlled by the automatic nervous system. 7. Higher levels of the neurotransmitters serotonin and dopamine in the brain are physiological indicators of increased happiness and decreased anxiety. Dopamine also contributes to good mood, and in addition, causes an increase in activity and willpower. 8. In order to achieve a state of happiness, people often pursue pleasure and avoid pain or discomfort. Feelings of depression, sadness, fear, anxiety, and hostility are often associated with unhappiness. Denial of these feelings may lead to temporary relief, often numbness, which is incompatible with genuine happiness. Accurate perception, acceptance of reality, accompanied with taking action to alleviate the root causes of the unpleasant emotions, taking right actions, correcting wrong actions, living a life of meaning and purpose, pursuing one’s passions and contributing to others are known to increase and sustain a general feeling of well-being and happiness.

Hormones that make you happy include; serotonin, dopamine, endorphins, phenylethylamine, ghrelin, oxytocin, and vasopressin.

Equanimity

1. The state of being calm, stable, and composed, especially under stress. Derived from “aequus,” a Latin adjective meaning level or equal. From the combination of aequus and animus (soul or mind) in the Latin phrase aequo animo, which means “with even mind.” 2. To the degree that you develop your Emotional Intelligence, you will also increase your stability. 3. Unresolved painful emotional experiences from your past detract from your ability to maintain equanimity. 4. The state where you can maintain your emotional state or mood without absorbing, reacting, or being affected by another person’s negative expression of emotions.

Grief

1. An Intense emotional feeling of suffering caused by loss, disaster, misfortune, regret, etc. 2. Acute sorrow; deep sadness. The person in grief cries for help and pleas for sympathy. 3. Expressed sorrow. When a person cannot feel or express their grief or refuse to accept a loss, they suppress, deny and disown it, often resulting in a state of denial as if the loss or cause of their grief never happened. 4. Grief as an emotion is in the Redzone and denial is in the Brownzone.

Fear

1. A very unpleasant feeling of alarm or disquiet caused by the expectation of danger, pain, disaster etc. 2. Terror; dread; apprehension. 3. Anxiety and agitation felt at the real or perceived presence of danger. 4. The feeling of fear covers a wide spectrum of emotion from mild worry and anxiety on one end to terror and freezing, unable to move on the other.

Enthusiasm

1. Intense, eager or strongly felt interest. 2. Originally, supernatural inspiration; inspired prophetic or poetic ecstasy. 3. The emotional level of a person who is winning. They are Eager, cheerful and alive.

Empathy

1. The psychological identification with or vicarious experiencing the feelings, thoughts or attitudes of another person. 2. To understand the perspective, experiences, or motivations and share another individual’s emotional state. 3. The imaginative ascribing or projection onto an object or work of art, one’s own feelings, thoughts or attitudes.

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