Positive Psychology: Focus on what you can do and not on what you may have lost.

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Focus on what you can do and not on what you may have lost.

Ring the bells that still can ring

Forget your perfect offering.

There is a crack in everything,

That's how the light gets in.

-- Leonard Cohen

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Zhang Li Xin will compete for China in the 400mwheelchair race at the ...

telegraph.co.uk

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."