Happiness..really is it a choice?

Many over the years have looked at happiness and the human perspective. Albert Ellis- American Psychologist who in 1955 developed Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT), has looked extensively into this concept of the power of perspective taking and how simply how we to choose to view a particular event, can be the determinant of our emotions of that event.

 

He explains the view that; Humans psychological problems arise from their misperceptions and
mistaken cognitions about what they perceive; from their emotional under-reactions or overreactions to normal and unusual stimuli; and from their habitually dysfunctional behavior patterns, which enable them to keep repeating nonadjustive responses even when they "know" that they are behaving poorly. 

REBT is based on the assumption that what we label our "emotional" reactions are largely caused by our conscious and unconscious evaluations, interpretations, and philosophies. Thus, we feel anxious or
depressed because we strongly convince ourselves that it is terrible when we fail at something or that we can't stand the pain of being rejected. We feel hostile because we vigorously believe that people who behave unfairly to us absolutely should not act the way they indubitably do, and that it is utterly
insufferable when they frustrate us.

(REBT explained by Albert Ellis, Ph. D. -http://www.rebt.ws/REBT%20explained.htm)

to be continued...