Humans gravitate towards creating and celebrating rituals in all sizes and forms – from a morning shower routine to the composition of a elaborate Thanksgiving dinner. Rituals are a way for us to recognize our values and connect to what creates meaning in our lives. Many believe that rituals are psychologically necessary to our daily …
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Honoring Our Relationship with Time
Like many of us, I have, all my life, struggled with time in one way or another. I seem to alternate between embracing flat-out activity and finding deeper pools of energetic sustenance. As a child, sensing the hyper-pressure around me, I began to actively resist. A self-taught procrastinator, at 19 I wrote an editorial entitled …
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Contentment must be both an attitude that we bring to our activities and one that is a result of our actions. If we enter into activities allowing our iceberg beliefs to lead the way, than our experiences will inevitably be tainted and perhaps doomed. If we take habitual action to remove our iceberg beliefs, then …
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Mindfulness and VIA Signature Strengths
Mounting evidence suggests that mindfulness may promote positive subjective experience, which is the first “pillar” of Positive Psychology. Relationships between mindfulness and other pillars of the burgeoning Positive Psychology movement, however, have not been thoroughly studied.
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Retrospective Visualization
Try. Fail. Try. Fail better. As I drove my youngest sister home from her first SAT exam a few weeks ago, this maxim surfaced in our conversation and it got me thinking about the effectiveness of visualization. I’m a firm believer in the power of creating one’s day first thing in the morning through visualization. …
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On Savoring
In his research on savoring, Fred Bryant calls out Freud and Skinner’s assumptions that people naturally experience pleasure in response to positive events. To some of us it might seem ridiculous to need to say so. We’d wonder, how is it possible to not enjoy the good stuff? I mean we’re not talking making lemonade …