Healing with Happiness
My colleague Stephanie West Allen, J.D., writes on mediation for the legal community. Her blog today had a mouth-watering post about your brain at work. http://snipurl.com/brainwrk – and her link takes you to http://yourbrainatwork.org/
It is certain that the better we understand out brains, the better we can manage them. This site is rich with useful [...]
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN
Todd Kashdan, a colleague from George Mason University, has published a study about how gratitude has different effects on men and women. It turns out that men feel a gift is more of a burden than women do. So the effect of a gift on a man is more mixed, [...]
WE KNOW A FEW THINGS about happiness. First, it can be changed, reliably and persistently. Second, the ways people try to increase happiness (buying Stuff, having more than the neighbors, and seeking pleasure or excitement) are all dead ends. Third, happy people are healthier and more productive than unhappy people. They live longer, take better [...]
I wrote this for another website and thought some of you who read this blog would enjoy it.
How do we cheer ourselves when our spirits are low? Traditionally, cognitive therapists have tried to change the content of thinking. Clients are taught to challenge over-generalization and exclusion patterns that are thought to cause unhappiness. Now we [...]
Well, all right, the title is a bit provocative. But it got your attention, didn’t it?
On a positive psychology chat group, I found the following post:
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Edward (last name deleted) wrote:
Friends,
I teach a course on character development at a mid-level security
facility for men in the Indiana Department of [...]
All my life I found stories of my family fascinating. When I was young, my paternal grandparents lived across the street. I am not sure I would recommend that, since it would be tough on anyone to live across from their in-laws. My mother handled it well, though, and I used to go across the [...]
I had read a while back about some studies suggesting that if we smile, we feel happier. One study found that if you ask undergraduate students (the backbone of psychology research!) to put a pencil between their teeth and then keep the lips from touching, they feel happier. When the mouth goes into that position, [...]
Dr. Jeff Schwartz is a research psychiatrist at ULCA who has shown the power of the mind to train the brain. His book, The Mind and the Brain shows all the evidence that paying attention literally changes the brain itself. In other words, what the mind decides to pay attention to shapes how the brain [...]
One of my favorite places on the web is www.ted.com.
Here I watch videos of some of the most interesting people on the planet. I am watching Marty Seligman right now, speaking on positive psychology and why that is such a significant departure from “psychology as usual.” Watch his talk at www.ted.com/index.php/talks/martin_seligman_on_the_state_of_psychology.html and see if you [...]