Positive Psychology: Thoughts for now.

Saturday, March 5, 2011

Thoughts for now.

"Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment."
- J. Donald Walters

"Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational -- but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?"
- Judith Viorst

"There never was a good war, or a bad peace."
- Benjamin Franklin

"Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way -- how many pleasing things are done for you."
- Claude M. Bristol

Play is the true object of all...

"The true object of all human life is play."
~ G.K. Chesterton

Play

”Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.”
~GKC character in his book,
"The Man Who Was Thursday - A Nightmare" page 121.

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."