Positive Psychology: Personal breakthroughs require you to harness your ego

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Personal breakthroughs require you to harness your ego

Until you learn to harness your ego, personal breakthroughs will always be followed by backsliding.

Psychological health reduces to one question: Do you pursue your grandest desires or flee your basest fears?

Words are more frequently used defensively than to advance understanding.

Source: @sgbrownlow

Dr. Steven Brownlow‏@sgbrownlow

Clinical Psychologist, Trainer, Consultant, and Coach. Founder of ADEPT Psychology.

Central Texas

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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."