How to Be Happy! Positive Psychology in Action

Positive psychologists generally focus on people who are happy with life. This research field is "focusing on the accuracy of the world."

Psychologists work on relatively happy people and "awaken" the possibilities of their happiness. Their initial test of optimism is to see how one can immerse one hand in ice water and how long they can endure unpleasantly.

Does happiness exist in hedonism? Participants in the Happiness Seminar should share their experiences

Positive psychologists began a series of tests focused on the body's response to emotional stimulation. Emotions affect the processing of information by happy people

Scientists use fMRI to examine the human brain and observe the influence of emotions on it. Participants in the seminar will act altruistically and then share their experiences

A young man volunteered to pick up garbage in the park to gain his selfless experience. Bus drivers will donate to valuable charity groups. Young women donate clothes to help unhappy women dress to succeed

In the past 50 years, material wealth has soared and the level of happiness remains stable. Because humans are social animals, friends and family are the source of happiness. Is happiness inherited?

Green Mountain Coffee Roaster is based on the principle of positive psychology, its management style success. Employees receive guidance on meditation and yoga

During Happy Yoga, participants will learn to laugh and even pretend to laugh. And it can stimulate the beneficial effect of happiness. Happiness coaches help people identify what they want and help them achieve their goals

Listening to words of gratitude provides an opportunity to tell someone how positive they are in their lives. These visits need to be honest and want to be vulnerable.

Participants at the Happiness Seminar will share their feelings about visits that express appreciation. Everyone recognizes that the personal experience with others improved their happiness index. Everyone is positively testing optimism and suffering

After enjoying hedonism, altruism and sincere experience, participants in the seminar increased more than before. Everyone expressed a result of a happy experiment

Behavior: In the field of positive psychology, we point out many of the benefits of being active and happy. Happiness brings social rewards, helps people recover from disease more quickly, and has greater adaptability. They are usually more confident, optimistic and happy, because the happy people feel they are under control and acquiring power. All of these are good reasons to try to maintain a positive attitude, but one of the main obstacles to aggressiveness is that our brain is strongly focusing on searching for threats. This mechanism is useful when we are hunters and collectors, but this way of thinking can create pessimistic and negative emotions, as the spirit tends to prolong until it finds a threat. However, there are many ways to overcome the negative bias of the brain.

One area of ​​psychology is called positive psychology, born around 1998. At that time, there were only 300 research papers on the theme of happiness. Prior to this, most psychologists were interested in psychosis. In 2016, there are more than 8000 research papers on the theme of happiness. The shift of focus from research pathology to research on individual growth is very beneficial, but many psychologists are disappointed in the scope of positive psychological research. These researchers believe that most studies are too simple to ignore important aspects of human condition.

With the emergence of positive psychology in the 21st century, it was first the development of human psychologist's research on their concern for the treatment of mental health rather than happiness and mental illness. The term "positive psychology" comes from Maslow, whose motivation and last chapter of character (Maslow 1970) entitled "Towards Positive Psychology". However, Martin Seligman is considered a father of contemporary positive psychology movement and he is the subject of his term as chairman of the American Psychological Association. This approach is meant to complement rather than replacing traditional psychology, as it focuses on nurturing genius and understanding normal growth and development. To build prosperous individuals, families and communities "(Seligman and Csikszentmihalyi 2000)