Positive Psychology: Words

Friday, April 8, 2011

Words

"Words differently arranged have different meanings, and meanings differently arranged have a different effect."

- Blaise Pascal

Listen to the gentle persuasion
Listen to your dreams
The soft whispers
Aspirations, love and hope
Embracing your destiny
Listen...a voice of reality
"Whisper" by Master Bronze Artist Tuan.

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."