Happiness

Happiness has been defined as a state of mind.  It can encompass everything we encounter in our everyday life. It brings with it feelings such as safety, contentment, pleasure, joy and peace. It has also been defined by Maslow in significant and in-depth ways. Maslow’s Hierarchy looks at happiness at a variety of levels.  He claims that we must meet the physiological needs before any of the others can be met, each layer of the hierarchy must be met before the next can be achieved.  The hierarchy can be seen in the following image: