Where is my happiness?

 

Happiness is a very subjective state, and we often lack something to feel completely satisfied with life. Sometimes happiness requires special conditions of our consciousness. And to understand this is quite simple – through the functional symbolism of objects that are included in the group of images “comfort, coziness, safety.” After all, happiness is often the absence of frustrated needs that provoke us to action or change. So let’s try to analyze the images, imagining that we have the opportunity to find the happiness that is hidden in the room. I want to warn you: this is just an opportunity to have a discussion about the metaphor of the image, and not a psychological test. Projections are too personalized and have significant personal distortion to be taken as serious and valid indications of need manifestations. But at the same time, during the analysis, they can lead to an understanding of important and expressed needs that may have previously been ignored or repressed for a number of reasons.

1. A gift is something we receive on a special occasion. So, waiting for a special occasion for happiness can be like a tendency that happiness must be earned.

2. In the most visible place – constant contact, something worth demonstrating, contemplating. But it is worth noting that it is always available. Your happiness is on top, in the zone of constant contact.

3. Hidden in a cache (safe, bunker under the floor). Hide and keep your happiness from others, from those for whom it is not intended, as something valuable. But at the same time, it can also mean the fear of losing what already exists.

4. In a doghouse or on the floor in a mink. It’s clearly something about instinct. Happiness depends on the biological nature of the person himself, it is the ability to feel and protect your needs for the sake of life itself.

5. In lockers, in furniture drawers. This is a system of organization, something that allows us to quickly put our capabilities and resources in order. Perhaps happiness in this case should be self-organized in order to avoid chaos.

6. In handbags, bottles, boxes that you can take with you. This image can symbolize the gathering of happiness, this accumulation for further studies of life.

7. In the fireplace. Here is probably the most difficult symbol, as it has many features:
– in front of the fireplace – happiness requires energy and warmth;
– in the fireplace – but then the fire cannot be lit. Where to get energy? Happiness seems to stop the processes of energy exchange.

8. Happiness is always with me – I think this is the axiom of each of us. But why is it so difficult, even in the form of a game, to separate it, as if to share it with an image? It’s like broadcasting it. After all, sometimes there is a need to see your own from the outside in order to recognize it.

Of course, the proposed options are only a meager attempt to systematize our imagination. This is a chance to think about happiness as something tangible and understandable, which makes it possible to feel it.

Therefore, you can think about a number of questions:

What is happiness?
Where did it come from? Who put it there?
How long has it been there and why?
What is its main function, why is this happiness?
What to do with him next?
Is it possible to share it or give it to someone?
What can threaten happiness?
How will events develop further?

These questions will help expand the projection and direct both us and our clients to awareness of the existential nature in order to know their actual needs and tasks in order to get a full life of their life with the label “Happiness”.
I wish all of us to find and realize our happiness to the full!

©Victoria Nazarevich 2020