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What is Positive Psychology?

Positive Psychology is a new school of thought that holds - no matter where we are in life, positive thinking will lead us to greater happiness and joy than we are now experiencing.

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

The Bad

Worrying is negative energy.
When you worry about your loved ones, in effet, you are picturing them with potential problems or difficulties.

The Ugly

Negative thinking can lead to a vicious circle. Negative thoughts and visualizations beget negative experiences.
Negative experiences beget negative thinking.
Negative thinking begets negative experiences.
This brings us to an ugly vicious circle of experiences.
Anyone would do much better to follow this pathway:




The Good

Instead of worrying about your loved ones, picture them happy and doing well.
This will feel good and send positive vibrations out into the universe.

Also, instead of worrying, manifest improvements in yourself -
so that you will set a good example for your loved ones, especially children.

Children learn best by examples, good or bad, positive or negative.
If you’re happy, they will be happy.

This is not only New Age Thinking, but it is becoming more and more mainstream Psychology
beginning as far back as Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, and Eric Fromm.

Martin Seligman teaches the new field of “Positive Psychology” at the University of Pennsylvania.
(He also has three books on the subject)
It is based on the fact that we’re all geniuses deep down, but bad programming,
and a negative environment have derailed our thinking.
We are far evolved, but we also have a very long way to go.

Here is what you will find if you look up Positive Psychology on the internet or in Wikipedia:

Positive psychology is a recent branch of psychology that “studies the strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive”.[1] Positive psychologists seek “to find and nurture genius and talent”, and “to make normal life more fulfilling”,[1] not simply to treat mental illness.[1]

Several humanistic psychologists—such as Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, and Erich Fromm—developed successful theories and practices that involved human happiness. Recently the theories of human flourishing developed by these humanistic psychologists have found empirical support from studies by humanistic and positive psychologists, such as in the area of self-determination theory.[2]

Current empirical researchers in positive psychology include Martin Seligman,[1] Ed Diener,[1] Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,[1], C. R. Snyder,[1] Christopher Peterson,[1] Barbara Fredrickson,[1] Donald Clifton, Albert Bandura, Shelley Taylor, Charles S. Carver, Michael F. Scheier, and Jonathan Haidt.[3]

@ Wikipedia

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I inhereted worry genes …. I used to worry and fret.
There were extended periods of my life where I had some very tough times getting through each day.
But the thought of bringing up children to be like what I was experiencing jolted me into research and positive change.

I started positive affirming, positive thinking and visualizing instead of worrying.

Now, my work is easier
I think and focus much much better
My writing has improved
I work better - both quality and quantity
My work is becoming more and more fun
I experience far less stress.
My boss and coworkers treat me far better than ever.

I’m much happier and enthusiastic, and I now enjoy life immensely.
My days go smoothly, and I have more time for fun.
My friendships and relationships have improved.
Dormant talents I never knew I had have become available to me.

I am more grateful, appreciative, and joyous each day. Another day in paradise.

Positive Thinking is infectious

My son used to listen to the CDs From Wayne Dyer, and The Teachings of Abraham
that I used to play while I worked around the house on weekends.
Every once in a while, the subject came up and we discussed the effects of positive thinking and manifesting positive results.
From positive visualizations, he has healed himself of rheumatoid arthritis.

He is now positive, happy, successful, popular, full of life, energetic enthusiastic, and prolific.
He is very popular, fun to be with, and typically the life of the party.

Only six months after graduating from a community college for Information Technology,
he was promoted to “Head Coder” (Web programming languages) - where all web work work goes through him and he directs and assigns content to his co-workers.

In addition, he has recently started his own business, and he is already doing well.
Children learn these succes concepts faster than we do because they have less “conditioning” than adults do.

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly conclusion

My experience has been that worry and negative thinking leads to negative results (including health)
I can also say with confidence that positive thinking
manifests positive results. (Including health)

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@July 2009 by Spirit Rhythms