Positive Psychology: Rest stops for your soul | delawareonline.com

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Rest stops for your soul | delawareonline.com | The News Journal

Danny Schweers challenges recipients to stop and reconnect to the sacredness of life.

Each week, Arden web designer Danny Schweers combines his passion for images

and words in a photo prayer. (Danny Schweers photos)

Danny Schweers challenges recipients to stop and reconnect to the sacredness of life.

http://www.photoprayer.com/

http://www.w2mw.com/ Schweers' website

Positive Psychology given credence by Academia:

Positive psychology is the scientific study of the strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive.

Commentators on the subject Martin Seligman and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, note that:

"The field of positive psychology at the subjective level is about valued subjective experiences: well-being, contentment, and satisfaction (in the past); hope and optimism (for the future); and flow and happiness (in the present).

At the individual level, it is about positive individual traits: the capacity for love and vocation, courage, interpersonal skill, aesthetic sensibility, perseverance, forgiveness, originality, future mindedness, spirituality, high talent, and wisdom.

At the group level, it is about the civic virtues and the institutions that move individuals toward better citizenship: responsibility, nurturance, altruism, civility, moderation,tolerance, and work ethic."