Here is a wonderful little animation on Positive Psychology.
It’s only a couple of minutes long but could change your life. The unique element in positive psychology is that it isn’t about what is wrong with you, but what is right with you.
Want to read more posts on Positive Psychology?
How to Harness Positive Psychology – Harvard
How You Can Benefit ro a Positive View on Your Life – WSJ
Breaking Down 8 Barriers to Positive Thinking – Infographic
Positive Happy People Suffer Less Pain
Tony
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The key to resilience is thinking more flexibly and learning to increase your array of options. The psychologist Martin Seligman advocates disputation, in which you think of your mind as a courtroom where negative thoughts are instantly put on trial.
You can rebut these thoughts, and you should. Now you’re acting as your own defense counsel, throwing at the court every bit of evidence you can think of to prove the belief is flawed. The bad thought is no longer a lock, and it dies amid the doubt.
I think one of the most important concepts I know is that we also learn from negative feedback.
Tony
Failure destroys some people. Others rise from the ashes, only to come back stronger. A guide to surviving tough times.
By Bruce Grierson, published on May 1, 2009 last reviewed on December 18, 2014
In September of 2008, Philip Schultz, a humble and plainspoken fellow, crossed the hardwood floor and slid in behind a temporary lectern in the Center for Well-Being at The Ross School in East Hampton. It was commencement day for the eighth-grade class. Some students recognized Schultz, who was giving the address, as the father of eighth-grader Eli. He was a local poet.
Schultz told the students he hadn’t learned to read until he was 11. By then, he’d been held back a grade and was a permanent member of what the other kids called the “dummy class.” Teachers just didn’t know what to do with a kid like Phil Schultz—who…
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I have probably written five posts on Positive Psychology in the past year or so. If interested you can type the words Positive Psychology into the Search box on the right and they will pop up for you.
I was thrilled to see that Harvard has done one of their publications on Positive Psychology. The latest Healthbeat says, “Positive emotions have been linked with better health, longer life, and greater well-being in numerous scientific studies. On the other hand, chronic anger, worry, and hostility increase the risk of developing heart disease, as people react to these feelings with raised blood pressure and stiffening of blood vessels. But it isn’t easy to maintain a healthy, positive emotional state. Positive Psychology is a guide to the concepts that can help you find well-being and happiness, based on the latest research.”
They go on to enumerate three ways to benefit from Positive Psychology.
“Express gratitude. Gratitude is a thankful appreciation for what you have — from a roof over your head to good health to people who care about you. When you acknowledge the goodness in your life, you begin to recognize that the source of that goodness lies at least partially outside yourself. In this way, gratitude helps you connect to something larger than your individual experience — whether to other people, nature, or a higher power.
Set aside a few minutes every day and think about five large or small things you’re grateful for. Write them down if you like. Be specific and remember what each thing means to you.
Filed under appreciation, gratitude, happiness, life challenges, Positive Psychology
Aristotle: Striving for the good life and to be happy is what humans should do.
Maslow: Psychological well-being is more than the mere absence of pathology – it is about striving for independence, competence and self-actualization, which is living up to our fullest potential.
I shot this on a morning bike ride. A very happy experience and sight for me.
I am presently taking a course in Positive Psychology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Thought you might like to know more about it. I wrote the following last November under the title Can I Be Happy?
In a word, yes, you can and should be happy. So says, Helene D. Moore, Psy.D., MAPP (Master of Applied Positive Psychology). Dr. Moore was speaking to the Northwestern Memorial Healthy Transitions Program®.
Positive Psychology is the product of Martin Seligman who in 1998 rocked the psychology world by suggesting that there should be two models instead of one for observing patients. The first is the disease model: what’s broken. What needs to be fixed. The second is an optimal functioning model: what’s going right – when we’re at our best.
Seligman wrote,”The exclusive focus on pathology that has dominated so much of our discipline results in a model of the human being lacking the positive features that make life worth living.”
Filed under happiness, postive psychology, stress
Aristotle: Striving for the good life and to be happy is what humans should do.
Maslow: Psychological well-being is more than the mere absence of pathology – it is about striving for independence, competence and self-actualization, which is living up to our fullest potential.
I shot this on a morning bike ride – a very happy experience and beautiful sight
In a word, yes, you can and should be happy. So says, Helene D. Moore, Psy.D., MAPP (Master of Applied Positive Psychology). Dr. Moore was speaking to the Northwestern Memorial Healthy Transitions Program®.
Positive Psychology is the product of Martin Seligman who in 1998 rocked the psychology world by suggesting that there should be two models instead of one for observing patients. The first is the disease model: what’s broken. What needs to be fixed. The second is an optimal functioning model: what’s going right – when we’re at our best.
Seligman wrote,”The exclusive focus on pathology that has dominated so much of our discipline results in a model of the human being lacking the positive features that make life worth living.”
Filed under brain, happiness, positivity, stress
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