How do you know if you're truly happy?

I believe you know you're truly happy when you don't think about anything else and you can't really explain how you are feeling because it's just a great relief.

Happiness is subjective. It is because of this face that it is hard to make a checklist to follow in order to clarify if what you are feeling is happiness. Another aspect of this is your personal values. Values are different for everyone, those are the things we deem important and are usually influenced by other people's values such as our parents' values or the values marketed by society, despite them being something that we should be able to choose. For example, if our parents value career success as the most important, it is likely that we will grow up validating our own success with how successful we are at school or at work. This can be very detrimental and even if we achieve that job success we may not feel truly happy. Happiness is subjective, as I said, but there is a trend with true happiness which involves the relationships we form with others, interacting and living in accepting environments. Happiness isn't something you gain it is something you work for everyday and once you do feel it it can slip away as fast as it came. This is why even healthy people have bad days, even happy people aren't happy all the time but it doesn't mean that true happiness doesn't exist. This is all my opinion but I think that true happiness is to be able to co-exist with ones emotions, negative and positive, to be able to experience momentary comfort with mortality and cope with your circumstances on your own terms. A lot of people I know, myself included, went through or are still going through a phase in which being sad also sparks unending guilt because 'it isn't healthy to be sad'. I disagree with this, sadness is a valid response to situational stimuli and it is healthy to express it and when you do let yourself feel those negative emotions without repressing them or extracting guilt from them, it does allow true happiness to grow within.

When you are truly happy you feel like you are living on cloud 9. Life treats you well and it shows. Generally when you are truly happy you are in a really positive mood, you smile a lot and you overall feel good. Being truly happy is honestly how you feel being tuely happy is. Someone's version of being happy could be the complete opposite of your vision. Always do you! Put yourself first when it comes to being happy. Never allow someone to kill your joy and optimism because you are a really amazing person who wants to live life to the 💯

I don’t think anyone realizes if they’re truly happy or not. Sometimes we look at al the bad in our life and forget all the good. We forget the blessings that we have. If we’re I’ll. We fell why God, why me? If our spouse is ill, we also ask why? We have to accept the good and the bad. We need to count our blessings and keep praying. I’ve learnt that prayer keeps you grounded. Sometimes you feel God is not with you, but as the saying goes, he gives only what we can bear.

personally, I start to notice that I enjoy my self in my alone time. I smile even if no one is around I giggle I dance on my own. if I notice my self doing those things I know I am happy. and if I am doing these things for maybe a week straight I know my mental health is better than it was. and the days that am just sitting dull or crying in my own company or I constantly am trying to keep my mind busy by scrolling on the gram or binging on series or constantly wanting company I know that is the time I should stop and get myself together

I think the important part of being happy is to know that it is permanent contentness and not just temporary - not a fleeting feeling of happiness.

I know that I am truly happy when I stop to think just about myself. And when I stop to take everything such as something personal. I know that I am truly happy when I live life completely it doesn't matter if I am upset with something. To me, happiness has nothing to do with excitement it is not the absence of sadness. It is always there in the background. If you pay close attention you will see. Your very nature is happiness. you are the happiness itself. You don't need to get rid of anything in order to be happy. Happiness is all-inclusive.

I think happy can be used in different ways. I can instantly know I'm happy when I'm laughing with my friends or when I watch comedy, no ambiguity there... Happy can also mean "I am happy with the way things are" - which means I am content with current status of things. I know I'm content when I don't feel compelled to make changes in life; in other word, I don't feel like that I need to make alteration to somethings just to be content with life - things are fine the way they are. Happy can also mean happiness, which is a really complex topic. I think it has to do with having meaning or a purpose in life, feeling that what I do matters, perhaps can contribute to other people's wellbeing or help them in some other manner. When life feels meaningful - and I say feel because it is something ineffable, not a particular meaning OF life. It is meaning IN life, it's something that I can just feel. When life feels meaningful, I am truly happy.

I feel it, your belly feel it. It's a strange sensation, but you know happiness reached you when you can feel it inhabit your body: simple actions become easier, the chest feels less heavy, less tight, thoughts stop running and give you some peace. Suddenly, the world starts to exist under a different light - and it's not the world which changed - but you are the one who see every object under a different view, under a light of curiosity and hope. You start accepting and condoning what the world did to you, you start to forgive yourself, knowing that how you acted was, at that harsh time, the best way possible.

hmm.. I think it would be when you stop comparing or having other people’s meaning of happiness interfere with yours. Because, I think sometimes we get too engaged or into with other people’s happiness to the point that we unconsciously set that as a standard for our own happiness too. For example, if someone defines happiness as having someone with you like a boyfriend/girlfriend, money, fame, power, or whatever it may be and just because that’s what you see or observe from them, you also think that yours should also be like it. To put it easier, you will know if you have your own definition and means of happiness, like it’s not just something that you have set to yourself based on what you see from your friends, family or whoever the fvck that is. Also, it’s when the inside you feels light, and of course when you’re not just faking it.