Happiness (Positive Psychology)

Positive psychology focuses on the positive events and influences in life, including: happiness, joy, inspiration, love, gratitude, resilience, compassion (including self-compassion), optimism, life satisfaction, wellbeing, gratitude and hope to name a few. In short what makes life worth living.

  1. Introduction: PositivePsychology.com
  2. The Neuroscience: Hardwiring Happiness by Rick Hanson
  3. Capturing Happiness
  4. Appreciation
  5. An Attitude of Gratitude (for ourselves, others and the world)
  6. Expressing Gratitude to others
  7. Acts of Kindness
  8. Your Positive Qualities: recognising them
  9. Your Positive Qualities: reinforcing them
  10. Your Positive Qualities: recording them in a journal
  11. Discounting the positives