Let’s do an exercise really quickly, think about your two favorite pieces of music. Let’s say Mariah Carey – “Hero,” and Beethoven – “Symphony No. 5: I,” rate them on a scale of 1-10. So maybe Mariah Carey is an 8, and Beethoven is a 9. What happens to your score when you combine the…
Stimuli is interpreted in this way by human beings: A) an event happens. B) it passes through the unconscious. C) it goes through a filter. D) it goes to consciousness. That filter is the “How” you interpret the event. Numerous stimuli that passes into the unconscious never passes into consciousness because they get filtered out.…
Self-esteem is basically the evaluative part of self-concept (how you define yourself). Some famous psychologists define self-esteem: Albert Bendora – “Those who express a sense of unworthiness are said to have low self-esteem, whereas the person who expresses self-pride are said to have high self-esteem.” Germain – “the judgment and feelings about the self.” Coopersmith…
Everyone that is reading this has been blessed with the gift of abundance. Because our baselines of material abundance is so high, every gift we receive elevates us only temporarily before we drop to our baselines again. This holiday season, practice gratitude. Your gifts are the works of time that someone put in, the minutes…
The idea of “Flow” was brought into the experimental psychology world by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. He describes the feeling as follows, “The optimal state of inner experience is one in which there is order in consciousness. This happens when psychic energy—or attention—is invested in realistic goals, and when skills match the opportunities for action. The pursuit…
Ralph Waldo Emerson said this of his ideal friend, “In a friend, what I’m looking for is not a mush of concessions, a person who will agree with everything that I say; rather what I’m looking for is a beautiful enemy, a person who will push me, who will help me in my apprenticeship to…
In the last 4 days we’ve worked on goal setting for achievement, starting a gratitude journal for positive emotions, fitness goal setting and baselines, and surrounding yourself with positive motivation for more positive emotion and achievement. Today we’re going to work on Engagement. There are three zones we get into in any given task: (1)…
We talked about our goals – short and long term. We talked about strengths and utilizing them. Now we’re going to surround ourselves with these. If you have goals, post them on your wall, on your mirror, on some place visible in your room. You have to write this down in a planner (in your…
Experiments on the gratitude journal has shown that it contains benefits including better sleep, fewer symptoms of illness, and more happiness. I believe that having a gratitude journal is one of the major weapons in the war against depression because I believe that depression isn’t just a scientific phenomenon, it is the “practice” of pessimism.…
Martin Seligman once said “To summarize the message of the positive psychology movement is to remind our field that he has been deformed. Psychology is not just the study of disease, weakness and damage, it also is the study of strength and virtues. Treatment is not just fixing what is wrong it is also building what…
This is a blog about how to create lasting change in 99 days. It’s about being courageous, doing things you didn’t think you can do, interpersonal growth (growth with others) and intrapersonal personal growth (growth within yourself) all while using positive psychology. For the next 99 days, every day I will post a blog that…
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