Importance Of Happiness Movement

Currently, there is a type of “happiness movement” sweeping across the country. This movement consists of a push to increase the nation’s overall positivity. Typically, the importance of happiness is promoted with the support of a new science called positive psychology. To reach its goal of increasing the nation’s positivity, this movement shames and “fixes” negative emotions. Because so much value is placed on favorable emotions, this happiness movement has created a negative stigma in regards to feeling ‘bad’ emotions. This push in positive psychology has praised joy while deeming any other feeling as wrong. In reality, being happy all of the time is not healthy; negative emotions have many benefits and are completely natural. Because being happy constantly is unhealthy, it is important for all members of society to experience negative emotions.

Negative emotions provide many benefits that are restricted by continual happiness. For example, being in a constant state of euphoria is unnatural and can dull ones’ senses. The experience of negative emotions sharpens the mind and employs caution. People experiencing happiness tend to make

By encouraging happiness and disregarding negative emotions, many benefits go unrealized by society during this happiness movement. Since the push to study and employ acts of positive psychology, society has greatly undermined the positive aspects of negative emotions. Thanks to this movement, people routinely get medication prescribed to them to “fix” their sadness when all they need is time. Society has placed a stigma on negative emotions which undermines Mother Nature. Denying people the opportunity to experience typical sadness harms people more than the negative emotion itself. People need to experience negative emotions in order to reap the psychological benefits as well as to go through their natural emotional