Positive Psychology: Positive Emotion in the Midst of Stress

Monday, September 29, 2014

Positive Emotion in the Midst of Stress

Uploaded on Feb 11, 2010

Judy Moskowitz, stress and coping researcher at the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, discusses the relationship between positive emotions and health.

She explores positive practices from mindfulness exercises to gratitude journals, as a means of coping.

Series: UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public [2/2010] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 17629]

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Link: http://youtu.be/1PMVh61Hfvc

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."

Monday, September 29, 2014

Positive Emotion in the Midst of Stress

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