Positive Psychology discovers the Role of Marriage in Happiness
By Y.Marianov | Unification Family Therapy
Don't miss | The research proves, married people are happier, healthier and richer. All aspects of love are experienced, learned and perfected within the family relationships. No wonder marriage proved as one of the major factors for happies. Recent studies show, it's time to stop directing research toward what makes us mentally ill and start studying what makes us happy. This new subfield is called positive psychology. We have the ability to generate happiness. Yes, happiness can be synthesized. Positive psychology helps us change our views of our world, so we can view differently our state. We have this power of thought. If we express it with other words, we should learn to create our own happiness, rather than just wait happiness to come. Meaning, learn to find the right attitude to happiness no matter what the external circumstances. For example, the most persecuted religious leader of out time, Rev. Sun Myung Moon, when put in a Communist Concentration Camp, instead of seeing that as disadvantage he thought of it as prepared by God. He came out victorious where most have died and started, the so called, Revolution of Heart. Today millions of couples have found happiness inspired by his great vision. When we feel happy? There is one undeniable fact, "Happiness arises when our desires are fulfilled", clarifies the Unification Principle of Rev. Moon. Yet, we have good and bad desires. Today humanity is still confused of what's good and what's bad. Recent study found that people who embracing the materialistic and humanistic philosophy presume they are happy, yet statistically there are most suicides among them. They falsely presume that external things make them happy. On the other hand, people led by their spiritual mind always felt that investing for others is the true way to happiness. Parents who invest all their energy for their children gain the greatest happiness in life. Study shows that the fastest and healthiest way to happiness is to stop worrying of ourselves and start living for the sake of others. To give a smile, or say a good word costs us nothing, yet the joy it gives to others returns multiplied times greater joy in our own hearts. The Unification Psychology recognizes that to be happy we need to start giving, to be spiritually and mentally healthy we have to start do something positive. The role of love and marriage in happiness The research proves, married people are happier, healthier and richer. According to the Unification Principle we cannot reach personal fulfillment in life accept through creating a perfect family. That's because all aspects of love are experienced, learned and perfected only within the family relationships. As a University of Chicago researcher Dr. Waite says, she has found that marriage brings considerable benefits to both women and men. It lengthens life, substantially boosts physical and emotional health and raises income over that of single or divorced people or those who live together. In the last two years several large studies that tracked people in and out of relationships over a long period have produced evidence that marriage actually causes psychological well-being in both sexes. Dr. Waite discerned a steep increase in "bad behaviors" among those who stayed single, but a "precipitous drop" in bad behaviors like the use of alcohol or illegal drugs among those who married. It is not just that people who remained married reported significantly higher levels of happiness than those who remained single. The data showed that those who separated or divorced over the five-year period became, in Dr. Waite's word, miserable. Men and especially women who married for the first time during the course of the study experienced a sharp increase in happiness. Remarriage, however, brought only a modest increase in happiness. Emotional health also hinges on satisfaction with sex, and in this realm marriage serves both men and women, but delivers a special bonus to women. First of all, Dr. Waite said, married people have sex twice as often as single people. The findings suggest that there is more to marriage than just a social bond. There appears to be something specifically protective about the long-term commitment that marriage entails. |
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