Positive Psychology: What Matters to You?

Tuesday, June 6, 2017

What Matters to You?

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What Matters to You?

If you feel stuck, are unable to make the changes you want, are tired of struggling and feeling frustrated then it is time to identify your core values, what motivates you and how you can deal with your thinking and emotions that sabotage your best efforts.

Learn to live life with awareness: taking conscious action open to experience and fully engage in whatever you are doing or trying to change.

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."