Recent research in neuroscience has shown that our happiness is not just an emotional experience that we all feel.
It has been show that the way we perceive happiness isn't just an emotional brain experience, but a shaper of how we perceive our reality as well.
Research from Ghent University by Naomi Vanlessen has challenged a theory called "broaden and build". In a nutshell this means that when your happy your attention zooms out to everywhere and you pay attention to multiple objects at a time. For example, when we receive any kind of good news we look around in a positive mood, and we are able to fire more creatively. New ideas for Steemit writings may suddenly pop into your head for example.
But, Naomi Vanlessen and her team have found that happiness doesn't alway lead to a more intense processing at a creative level. Some people have a much more diffuse experience.
When your in a good mood, you might be able to take in a range of subjects, but you may become less analytical about what is going on around you.
Some people with this diffuse style of cognitive thinking may have a polarity in thinking (everything is either good or bad) but they can't quite explain a reason for forming these judgements.
This cognitive diffusion has also been shown in experiments with rats brains too.
So my fellow Steemians, how does a positive mood make you feel? For me I'd say I'm the diffuse type - but I associate that with the interjection of ego into my creative thought processes - which I do try to block.
EDIT: Link to the original science article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27395341