ABSTRACT
This chapter includes metaphors for communicating the first two components: positive emotions and engagement. It presents stories to offer pathways and process for attaining and maintaining pleasure and engagement. Martin Seligman, who has been hailed as the father of positive psychology, describes five core components of happiness and well-being. For these he has developed the anagram PERMA: Positive emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishments. Discovering the ability to create and experience positive emotions is a powerful tool for enhancing happiness. Engagement or flow refers to a high level of absorption in a situation, task, or project. Tasks that are engaging have clear goals, present a challenge, and demand a high level of skill. For a more lasting, long-term experience of happiness, positive emotions are seen as a part of the whole parcel that includes all the other components of the PERMA anagram.
