Positive Psychology: Duality

Friday, May 13, 2011

Duality

OUT BEYOND IDEAS OF WRONG DOING

AND RIGHT DOING

THERE IS A FIELD.

I WILL MEET YOU THERE.

RUMI

There is a way between voice and presence
where information flows.
In disciplined silence it opens.
With wandering talk it closes.

- Rumi

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."