Four Links to Positivity. By Michael R.
Mantell, Ph.D. Dr. Michael Mantell SAN DIEGO — The self-help blogs and media are filled with useful information about positive psychology, becoming your best self, leading the good life, and the value and benefits of being optimistic, positive and hopeful. It’s next to impossible–from more than 3000 years of Judaism’s wisdom on happiness to Joel Osteen’s pulpit, from Abraham Maslow to Martin Seligman, from Sonja Lyubomirsky to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and so many others – to not have heard of terms like “the pleasant life,” “the meaningful life,” “engagement,” “flow,” “mindfulness,” “strengths and virtues,” “flourishing,” “PERMA,” and of course “happiness.”
What Science Is Telling Us About The Heart’s Intuitive Intelligence. The wonderful and brilliant scientists over at the Institute of HeartMath have done some amazing work in shedding a light on the science of the heart.
The Institute of HeartMath is an internationally recognized nonprofit research and education organization dedicated to helping people reduce stress, self-regulate emotions, and build energy and resilience for healthy, happy lives. HeartMath tools, technology, and training teach people to rely on the intelligence of their hearts in concert with that of their minds at home, school, work, and play. A large portion of their research has investigated heart and brain interaction. Researchers have examined how the heart and brain communicate with each other and how that affects our consciousness and the way in which we perceive our world. For example, when a person is feeling really positive emotions like gratitude, love, or appreciation, the heart beats out a certain message. 8 Behaviors That Block Positive Energy (And How to Avoid Them)
The power of positivity: How banishing negative thoughts helped me beat pancreatic cancer, twice. Pancreatic cancer is one of the most lethal human diseases known to man.
Each year, more than 40,000 Americans are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and 95 percent die within the next 12 months. Steve Jobs, Patrick Swayze, opera singer Luciano Pavarotti: These celebrities all died from pancreatic cancer. Professionals learn positivity is the key to success. Ambitious professionals and business owners from Dundee, Montrose and Perth, came together this week to hear about the power positivity holds for achieving success in business, as part of Clydesdale Bank’s Private Week.
The event, named Positive Leadership, was held at the Inchture Hotel in Perthshire on Tuesday 24 March and attracted more than 45 guests. Attendees consisted of a mix of private banking customers and non-customers, including solicitors, surveyors and accountants and business entrepreneurs. Posting positivity: Denfeld students share uplifting messages at school. "Clear your mind of can't.
" "You are beautiful inside and out. " "Be the reason someone smiles. " Those phrases are among the roughly 4,000 that have graced school walls, lockers and windows this month. Some have been grouped together and laminated, and some classes have joined the effort. "Stop the Bullying: Post the Positive" is a project helmed by the student government class Executive Board, but dreamed up by freshman Savanah Turpin, who brought the idea to principal Tonya Sconiers.
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~William Penn A friend recently asked me, “What’s the worst habit you’ve overcome?” “Besides eating chocolate for breakfast?”