The Importance of Happiness Notes
0. Context
5 topics per stage, each consisting of 2 minutes.
Interlocking performance, 2 people presenting for each stage.
1 after the other.
Everyone is always involved and talking.
1. Introduction to Happiness
Why Happiness is important
Explaining the importance of happiness.
How you could be unhappy?
Signs why you might be unhappy.
Happiness Comparison
The comparison of happiness does not exist.
Silent Killers
The Environments impact on happiness. Problems that are not directly related to you can impact you.
Little Happiness
Coping mechanisms. How doing small things can improve your mentality. Literal suggestions in place.
Activity (Pending?)
Icebreaker Q: What makes you happy?
2. Science of Happiness
Neurological / Chemical POV
What is happiness from a neurological pov. Discuss Serotonin & Dopamine.
Importance of Serotonin & Dopamine on Physical body (Biology)
How serotonin and dopamine helps your body and why its important as a chemical in your brain/body.
What happens when you are literally not happy?
How dopamine and serotonin not being released can negatively impact your body.
Effects of lack of serotonin and dopamine
How you and your body not being happy can impact your mood and your attitude? How this can also be out of someone's control.
Long term physical effects of unhappiness
Long term effects. What will happen without you being happy. Immune system, negative issues, difficulty cope, exhaustion, etc Irregular emotion explanation and analysis of the timescale within this context.
3. The End
What to do?
Now you know the science behind it, what do you do?
There is nothing we can teach you how to fix but we can help you to learn for yourself how to fix whatever is troubling you.
Its okay
If you're unhappy and don't know what to do, that is okay, at least you have acknowledged it.
Unhappiness is also important
Sometimes you need to be unhappy to move on.
Fight
Inspiration/Motivation.
You have acknowledged unhappiness.
You know that you are unhappy, now what do you do?
All of this does not mean that you should not fight, you should!
Takeaway
You deserve to be happy. We are not giving you any advice, we are not capable of fixing anything for you.
If you sat in this room and you thought you were unhappy, you should fight because at the end of the day you deserve to be happy.