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BASIS - It is said that within our emotional context exists a continuum that ranges from negative experience, null, then to the positive. In that when dealing with sadness, melancholy, depression cannot be seen as isolated agents in the emotional spectrum, but as component parts of a holistic experience of being.

TRANSITORY - Hedonistic stimuli satisfies the momentary transience of the immediate. If positive input would be discrete chunks of data refilling a limited storage capacity, this could be defined as a blissful state.

EUDAIMON "eu" ("good") and "daimōn" ("spirit"). - Peak happiness occurs when life activities coincide with most profound personal values resulting in authentic experiences and aliveness. Autonomy, growth, self-acceptance, life purpose, environmental mastery, positive relation to others are the key aspects of fulfilling ones 'daimon'.

TOTALITY - Throughout human society, a pervasive generality exists regarding the emotional continuum, in that our resting state of being occurs above the null in the positive. Even after drastic life events, over time, people revert to being pretty much ok with things. We pass through our time here on a hedonic treadmill with a tendency to adapt rapidly to changes in ecology.