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The objective of this paper is to find out how Positive emotions, forgiveness, resilience and gratitude play a very essential role for a society to act positively. These together are extremely important for mental health and an overall balanced personality. Chronic stress from negative attitudes and a feeling of helplessness & hopelessness can upset the body's hormone balance and deplete the brain's chemicals required for feelings of happiness as well as have a damaging impact on the immune system. This article brings out that how healthy attitude not only helps a person to cope up with the worst circumstances and negativity but to also overcome it with brilliance. Here we have shed light on the importance of positivity for an individual to have better living conditions and hence, a stable society, and we also have discussed how one can have a positive outlook for various difficulties in the current living conditions.

Keywords: gratitude, resilience, emotions, forgiveness, psychology of positivity

Positive psychology is the branch of psychology that uses scientific understanding and effective intervention to aid in the achievement of a satisfactory life, rather than merely treating mental illness. Positive psychology is concerned with three issues: positive emotions, positive individual traits, and positive institutions. Positive emotions are concerned with being content with one's past, being happy in the present and having hope for the future. Positive individual traits focus on one's strengths and virtues. Finally, positive institutions are based on strengths to better a community of people. "Happiness" encompasses different emotional and mental phenomena. Positive mental health is a combination of high emotional well being, high psychological well being and high social well being. Resilience, gratitude and forgiveness are some positive state of mind that is build by positive emotions.

Resilience

Resilience is defined as an individual's ability to properly adapt to stress and adversity. Stress and adversity can come in shape of family or relationship problems, health problems, or workplace and financial stressors. Individuals demonstrate resilience when they can face difficult experiences and rise above them with ease.

Resilience can be described by viewing

* Good outcomes despite high risk status

* Constant competence under stress

* Recovery from trauma

* Using challenges for growth that makes future hardships more tolerable

Gratitude

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