Positive Psychology: Dalai Lama - Peace Within Panel Part 6 of 11

Sunday, April 9, 2017

Dalai Lama - Peace Within Panel Part 6 of 11 - Newark Peace Education Summit

Part six of the first panel of the Newark Peace Education Summit focuses on generating inner peace. Multiple perspectives are solicited from the panel which includes Nobel Laureates, His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama, Jody Williams and Shirin Ebadi as well as Deepak Chopra, Roshi Joan Halifax, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Tao Porchon-Lynch, Wilbert Rideau, and Youth Representative: Mahishan Gnanaseharan. Robert Thurman Moderates this lively and profound discussion.

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Link: https://youtu.be/84CTFelMGqo

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."