Saturday, 16 March 2013

Happiness is in your own hands (or mind)

So I thought I'd google the title of my blog "If it's going to be it's up to me".  Not surprisingly, the results returned a lot of self-help resources on happiness and positive psychology, as well as many Christian resources.

Following the social media theme, I've located a clip on You Tube by Henry Miller.  Henry's clip, in summary, makes the following points:

  • Think yourself happy - what you think you become.
  • Choose to be more optimistic.
  • Stop focusing on the negative, particularly ruminating about events in your life.
  • Build resilience.
  • Savour the present.
  • Intentionally act happy (smiling etc)
  • Exercise, meditate, sleep, embrace spirituality.
If you tend toward the negative, I encourage you to watch the clip.




The current terminology about this happiness movement is Positive Psychology.

Dr Martin Seligman is renowned as the founder of positive psychology.  I've listed below some links to social media resources on positive psychology from a few different Web 2.0 applications.

Dr Seligman's homepage - Authentic Happiness
http://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/Default.aspx

TED talk - Martin Seligman: The new era of positive psychology (as tweeted)
http://www.ted.com/talks/martin_seligman_on_the_state_of_psychology.html

Blog for The Happiness Institute
http://www.thehappinessinstitute.com/blog/article.aspx?c=3&a=2909

And just in time to follow Action for Happiness @actionhappiness for the first United Nations International Day of Happiness occurring on 20 March 2013

Happy, happy, joy, joy!

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  1. Geramae Godilano16 March 2013 at 18:34

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    1. Unknown21 March 2013 at 13:36

      They are great, aren't they, covering so many topics.

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  2. Claire Tellefson21 March 2013 at 02:12

    The United Nations has declared March 20 the first International Day of Happiness to underline the commitment of its 193 member states to “better capture the importance of the pursuit of happiness and well-being in development with a view to guiding their public policies.”

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  3. Unknown23 March 2013 at 18:04

    Great choice of topic - very timely considering everyone's stressing out about uni work! I'm sure to take something away from this that will help both personally and professionally.

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    1. Unknown24 March 2013 at 14:11

      I'm certainly glad my little blog is of some benefit!

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