positive psychology Tag

This article from Psychology Today sums up some really fascinating research! Did you know that genuine smiles predict happy and satisfied marriages? Can you believe that genuine smiles predict living a longer life? Happiness, and it's reflection in real, genuine smiles, is highly correlated with...

09 April, 2010

There's no doubt that happy people are better at identifying and utilising their strengths; it's not that they ignore their weaknesses, it's just that they spend more time trying to make the most of what they're already good at. This happiness principle was recently described...

02 April, 2010

Today I started another 3-day Executive Certificate in Positive Psychology Coaching course and as always, I find I'm learning as much as I'm teaching. Here are just a few lessons from Day 1...

17 March, 2010

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. _ã_Helen Keller While Dr. Martin Seligman is considered the founding father of positive psychology, Barbara...

08 March, 2010

For decades, psychology and its researchers have focused on the negative side of humanity _ã” the things that bring dysfunction into our lives. Depression, sadness, anxiety, you name it. More recently, psychologists have also begun to better understand the value of positive emotions too. This...

06 March, 2010

...give some serious thought to these important questions which I've modified from a seminar I attended this morning (thanks Ben Renshaw!). With whom should I spend more time? To whom should I listen to more? ...

05 March, 2010

Inspiration, or more precisely the lack of it, strikes fear into the hearts of many students faced with an assignment or test, a blank sheet of paper and a ticking clock. I can remember countless times, sitting nervously in an exam hall, trying hard not...

28 February, 2010