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To me being positive as a baseline is achieved a bit different. Note that I haven't quite reached the end point yet but am getting closer.

The thing is you want to try and get yourself on a baseline instead of swinging up and down all the time. The more you swing with your emotions the more it will drain you. If you are internally validated which means that you draw your happiness from yourself and not from your surroundings than this means that you will swing much less after a while (lifelong process). This also means that external validation should be avoided as much as possible.

This means that if for instance if you win the nobel prize, your greatest love returns into your life and you win the lotery at the same time that you won't feel much different than if you lost everything you owed, your greatest love left you and your family wants nothing to do with you.

If you draw your happiness from the inside most of the time than you will achieve balance and your average happiness 'level' will be higher than the swingy one.



Ps. This is very difficult to achieve and I don't really have advice on how to do this. Just putting it out there as another suggestion.