… making human-well-beings Resilience
In positive psychology the world can be bettered by identifying and then shaping character, both bad and good. Reward and punishment shape character and good events are just as important as awful events. Be drawn to the future by expectations, planning and conscience choice… rather than being driven by your past habits and circumstances.
Positive relationships
Very little that is positive is solitary – laughing, a sense of profound meaning, pride in accomplishment usually take place around other people. Other people are the best antidote to the downs of life and single most reliable up and doing a kind act produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well being of […]
PERMA – 5 elements of Wellbeing
Again, continuing Seligman’s Flourish resource, the 5 elements of wellbeing are as follows: 1. Positive emotion: Happiness and life satisfaction are now merely one of the factors. 2. Engagement – again only subjective – though subjective state is only retrospective ie “ that was wonderful” 3. Relationships 4. Meaning: Subjective….. and objective 5. Accomplishment – […]
Well Being Theory
Well-being is a construct; happiness is a thing. It has several measurable elements, each a real thing, each contributing to well being, but none defining well-being. eg Weather is a construct – several elements contribute, temp, rain etc eg Freedom is a construct – is press censored? Elections? Each element is measurable but only by […]
Problems with authentic happiness
Neither engagement nor meaning refers to how we feel Life satisfaction holds too privileged a position in the measure of happiness. Measured in a scale of 1 – 10 how satisfied are you? The problem with such a measure of life satisfaction is that it depends on how good we feel at the very moment we are […]
Authentic happiness:
continuing our review of Flourish by Seligman, Authentic happiness: 1. Positive emotion can be measured by what we feel: pleasure rapture ecstasy warmth comfort 2. Engagement – about flow – being one with music, time stopping, loss of self-consciousness during an absorbing activity – uses up all thought and feeling – EFFORTLESS – Opposite to […]
Hunt the good stuff
The purpose to hunt the good stuff is to enhance positive emotions… begin to see benefits in health, sleep and relationships and perform better..
Hi guys, in launching life coaching 4 wellbeing in Hobart in 2014, we will explore: a number of key foundational points including industry buzz concepts such as flourishing and mindfulness. the key concepts of the life coaching process made simple life coaching tips A resource I have found useful in understanding the concept of flourishing […]
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