- Health – physical and mental wellbeing.
- Aesthetic experience – natural and created beauty.
- Play – creativity, the arts, games, sport, humor, conversation, and more…
- Pleasure – the common ingredient of positive emotions.
- Yes-saying – meaning and purpose. What values do we say yes to?
- Life – appreciating and enhancing the web of life (biophilia and nature connectedness).
- Information – the goodness of knowledge and lifelong learning.
- Friendship – social health and the spectrum of positive social interaction.
- Engagement – absorption, flow, and being in the zone.
The H.A.P.P.Y. L.I.F.E. framework is an overview of the major domains of wellbeing research. The H.A.P.P.Y. L.I.F.E. framework can also be used as a starting set of values to build mental wellbeing around. We recommend writing out your own core values in light of your strengths, the H.A.P.P.Y. L.I.F.E. framework, your passions, and any other quality of being or doing that deeply matters to you. The idea is then to create goals that are derived from your values and create pathways to reach them. Hope (psychological) is in part a set of cognitive skills and also a core aspect of positive mental wellbeing. Hope integrates goal thinking, pathways thinking, and developing agency. You may find inspiration for creating your values and goals by exploring wellbeing practices on Google Scholar. A YouTube playlist themed around the H.A.P.P.Y. L.I.F.E. framework.