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Flourishing is not a solo endeavor.
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Endeavor
Flourishing
Solo
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Positivity transforms us for the better.
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Positive
Positivity
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The negative screams at you but the positive only whispers.
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Negative
Scream
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Love is that micro-moment of warmth and connection that you share with another living being
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Love
Connections
Moments
Psychology
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Love requires you to be physically and emotionally present. It also requires that you slow down.
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Positivity doesn't just change the contents of your mind...It widens the span of possibilities that you see.
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Emotion
Mind
Positivity
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Positive emotions are not trivial luxuries, but instead might be critical necessities for optimal functioning.
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Emotion
Luxury
Might
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It turns out that unexplained positivity lasts longer than positivity we analyze until we fully understand it.
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Positive
Lasts
Positivity
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Positivity opens us. The first core truth about positive emotions is that they open our hearts and our minds, making us more receptive and more creative.
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Positive
Truth
Heart
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Scientists have shown that because positive and open mindsets produce exploration and experiential learning, they also come to produce more-accurate mental maps of the world.
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Positive
Maps
World
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Flourishing goes beyond happiness, or satisfaction with life. True, people who flourish are happy. But that's not the half of it. Beyond feeling good, they're also doing good-adding value to the world.
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Feel Good
People
True Life
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Positive people are able to maintain a broader perspective and see the big picture which helps them identify solutions where as negative people maintain a narrower perspective and tend to focus on problems.
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Attitude
Focus
People
Perspective
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When we inject people with positivity, their outlook expands. They see the big picture. When we inject them with neutrality or negativity, their peripheral vision shrinks. There is no big picture, no dots to connect.
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Positive
People
Positivity
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The benefits of positive emotions don't stop after a few minutes of good feelings subside. In fact, the biggest benefit that positive emotions provide is an enhanced ability to build skills and develop resources for use later in life.
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Feelings
Later In Life
Skills
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Taking delight in my family, my time in nature, and in the chance to do work that I find endlessly fascinating and rewarding. My smile grows even bigger when I think about how lucky I am to have such delights be part of my everyday life.
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Everyday
Lucky
Thinking
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Positive psychology is both a movement and a science. The movement involves absolutely anyone who is interested in evidence-based approaches to improving well-being, either for themselves or for their community. I invite you to join this movement!
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Community
Movement
Psychology
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The boundaries between you and not-you — what lies beyond your skin — relax and become more permeable. While infused with love you see fewer distinctions between you and others. Indeed, your ability to see others — really see them, wholeheartedly — springs open.
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Love You
Lying
Spring
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You know that saying 'A little knowledge is a dangerous thing'? That's so true of positive psychology. Our latest research tells us that the pursuit of happiness is a delicate art. Certain approaches to seeking happiness are now known to backfire, whereas others are effective.
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Art
Psychology
Pursuit Of Happiness
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Positivity psychology is part and parcel of psychology. Being human includes both ups and downs, opportunities and challenges. Positive psychology devotes somewhat more attention to the ups and the opportunities, whereas traditional psychology - at least historically - has paid more attention to the downs.
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Opportunity
Positivity
Psychology
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Love is a momentary upwelling of three tightly interwoven events: First, a sharing of one or more positive emotions between you and another; second, a synchrony between your and the other person’s biochemistry and behaviors; and third, a reflected motive to invest in each other’s well-being that brings mutual care
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Events
Love Is
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Positive thinking is just one small part of positive psychology. Plus, as an approach to well-being, positive thinking only helps you to the extent that it yields one or more positive emotions. The problem with positive thinking is that it sometimes just stays up "in the head" and fails to drip down to become a fully embodied experience.
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Positive Thinking
Psychology
Yield
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My all-time favorite topic in positive psychology is the study of positive emotions. I'm fascinated by how pleasant experiences, which can be so subtle and fleeting, can add up over time to change who we become. I'm especially excited these days about investigating how positive emotions change the very ways that our cells form and function to keep us healthy.
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Cells
Healthy
Psychology
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I began studying human emotions more than twenty years ago. At that time, almost every scientist working in this area was studying one of the negative emotions, like fear, anger, anxiety, or depression. I wondered why no scientists cared to explain why we humans sometimes feel upbeat and pleasant. I liked the idea of charting new terrain. It's been a fun intellectual puzzle. There's so much to discover!
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Fun
Ideas
Years
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