- Health – mental and physical.
- Aesthetic experience – natural and created beauty.
- Play – creativity, the arts, games, sport, humor, and more…
- Pleasure – the thing that makes positive emotions positive.
- Yes-saying – building meaning and living our purpose (strengths + vision + values + mission).
- Life – the web of life (biophilia and nature connectedness).
- Information – curiosity and the goodness of knowledge.
- Friendship – and the spectrum of positive social interaction.
- Engagement – flow and being absorbed in experience.
Please explore these themes on Google Scholar and this YouTube playlist to see how these factors can elevate our wellbeing. The HAPPY LIFE framework is meant to be comprehensive in how it conceptually maps out the entire terrain of human flourishing. Another criteria of a sound theory is that the constitutive elements of the model be irreducibly simple.