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Shrunken Mind w/Dr. John Schinnerer - Using Positive Psychology to Master Life
Shrunken Mind w/ John Schinnerer is Among Top 3 Positive Psychology Blogs on the Web!
PostRank Topblogs 2009 - #3 in Positive Psychology Thank you for your support and interest in making this blog so successful! All the best, John Schinnerer, Ph.D. Guide To Self, Inc. For coaching appointments, please email John AT GuideToSelf DOT com pr_topblogs_widget(\\\'pr_topblogs2009_widget-0\\\', \\\'Positive Psychology\\\', 3, \\\'topic\\\', 2009, \\\'7499624a994f52c3679878f294478fd5\\\');...
MANAGING YOUR PERSISTENT FEARS AND ANXIETIES
Today I have the privilege of running an article by Stanley Popovich on overcoming fear and anxiety. Stanley is a published author and more info can be gleaned on Stanley from his website at www.managingfear.com. By: Stanley Popovich Everybody deals with anxiety and depression, however some people have a hard time...
Anger Management 101: New Study Shows How Forgiveness and Prayer Can Reduce Rage
Anger Management: How Prayer And Forgiveness Can Reduce Your Rage John Schinnerer Ph.D. Guide To Self, Inc. www.GuideToSelf.com There was some wild stuff happening on the court where I live recently. Last Thursday, one of my neighbors accidentally backed her SUV up, …out of her driveway …across the street … into our neighbor’s house …going 60...
Shrunken Mind is Top 3 Among Positive Psychology Blogs!
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Parenthood is a Pathway to Wisdom
It is the difficulties in life that cultivate wisdom. You cannot be wise without adversity. And parenting, by its very nature, is filled with adversity. John Schinnerer...
Please take a listen to Dr. John Schinnerer’s recent radio interview with David Van Nuys, Ph.D. and professor emeritus at Sonoma State University. The talk focuses on using positive psychology for coaching individuals towards a thriving, productive, meaningful life. Positive psychology is not another self-help fad. It is a scientifically based approach...
The Happiness Project
"Marriage is About...Tea, Doctor's Appointments, Trivia, Quirks."
From time to time, I post short interviews with interesting people about their insights on happiness. During my study of happiness, I’ve noticed that I often learn more from one person’s highly idiosyncratic experiences than I do from sources that......
Nineteen Tips for Cheering Yourself Up -- from 200 Years Ago.
Every Wednesday is Tip Day. This Wednesday: 19 tips for cheering yourself up -- from two hundred years ago. I've posted this list before, but I love it, so am supplying it again. I read it in a biography of......
In a Happiness-Project Group Near Westchester? NY Times Reporter Is Interested...
Are you in a happiness-project group in the New York City/Westchester area? A New York Times reporter is investigating for a possible article and would be interested in getting in touch with you, if so. If you'd be willing to......
What Was Your New Year's Resolution? Are You Keeping It?
It's February 1, so the first month of the new year is over. What was your New Year’s resolution? I’m curious about what resolutions people are making. One reader wrote me that her resolution was to “Write shorter emails.” I......
"We Are What We Repeatedly Do..."
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” --Aristotle * If you're starting a happiness project, you might like to use the Happiness Project Toolbox -- a companion site that offers eight free......
I’m working on my Happiness Project, and you could have one, too! Everyone’s project will look different, but it’s the rare person who can’t benefit. Join in -- no need to catch up, just jump in right now. Each Friday’s......
Motivational Memo Blog
When I find myself involved in a one on one conversation with a friend or a colleague, I suddenly find myself throwing about my thoughts more easily. They seem to present themselves with a greater sense of order. And for some reason I see those thoughts just that much clearer...
‘All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.’ Benjamin Franklin 1. Those Who Are Immovable There are those amongst us who are stuck. Stuck in tradition. Stuck in their ways. Stuck in comfort. Stuck in religious thought-sets. Stuck in bad...
I have in the first month of this year attended two funerals. One for a friend who was a few years older than myself, and who had lost a five year battle with cancer, and the other for a friend’s child who died full-term in the womb of his young...
‘Often the best way out is through.’ All of us at some time in our lives will feel hemmed in, surrounded, blocked, hindered, or delayed by life’s circumstances. This is not the time to run, nor to even stand still, resigned to the seeming fate or thought that this now is...
Did not Joseph – the savior of ancient Egypt– spend the good years storing up the excess – to the disdain of many of the people I can imagine, so that when the drought hit there was food enough for all? Did not the wise man build his house upon the...
One definition given for the word discretion is this: free will – the power of making free choices unconstrained by external agencies. This speaks to me of freedom: the ability to act or judge on one’s own. The ability to make wise choices or decisions, and the freedom to make one’s...
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Heartbreak (and other rejection) really hurts, and pain relievers really help!
Todd Kashdan, author of Curious?: Discover the Missing Ingredient to a Fulfilling Life, has an interesting post up at his Psychology Today blog. It seems researchers have discovered that: people hate being excluded EVEN when playing a computer game with people they don't know and cannot see and whom they...
My monthly post is up over at Positive Psychology News Daily. It's for leaders implementing positive psychology approaches and deals with the necessity of "flying high cover."...
The research on the positive benefits of meditation/mindfulness is pretty powerful. Barbara Fredrickson, for one, has done some pretty serious research around it. (See Positivity.) I have felt pulled to develop more personal experience through keeping a regular, daily practice for a time. Now I see this, Winterfeast for the...
My monthly post is up over at Positive Psychology News Daily
It's a review of a book that's "right" for an audience that is suprisingly broader than it's title suggests, Martial Virtues by Charles D. Hackney, PhD....
Amazing. Uplifting. As Chris Peterson says, "Other people matter." Stand by Me from theRedPillRadio on Vimeo....
Thursday Tunes - Straight No Chaser's "12 Days of Christmas"
This video is fun in several ways -- the excellence, the playfulness, and the way they handled the (probably forbidden) recording of their concert. Someone at my wife's office turned us on to these guys. Really great! For more of their videos and music, go to http://www.sncmusic.com/. Otherwise, enjoy!...
Hearts & Minds
What Our Political Passions For President Obama Tell Us About Our Personal Relationships
It's time to soften the heart. It's time to put aside old judgments and resentments. It's time to forgive and forget. It's time to accept and nurture. ...
What Can the Supreme Court and Martin Luther King Teach Us About Relationships?
As we've watched the descent of our country into immorality and decay, most of us seem to think it's one party's fault or the other. It's not. It's our fault....
What Can We Learn From Haiti ?
It behooves us to look at each new day with appreciation, to count our blessings and be grateful for what we have despite whatever lack or limitations we're experiencing....
hold unconditionally loving thoughts in mind...
Anger Is Hazardous To Our Health
It's a fact that anger is hazardous to our health. ...
Why Doctor Who Is Happy and What We Can Learn From Him
One thing's for sure: Whatever happens, Doctor Who is going to make the most of it....
Better. Quicker. Saner. Mother.
Here's part 6 of our time saving tips from our guest Blogger Mark Nolan at http://www.morejoyinlife/6. Delegate time-wasting tasks to someone else. If you owned a big business, would you answer the phone yourself, or would you have a receptionist do it? Would you act as your own delivery boy,...
Here's tip # 5 from our guest Blogger by Mark Nolan at http://www.morejoyinlife.comJust say no to many boring social situations. Are you dreading going to the time-wasting meeting or function of the Time Vampires Anonymous group? Just politely and firmly say, “Sorry I have something else planned.” Don’t elaborate. The...
Check out http://www.thegoodstuffguide.com/ for some laundry room tips by yours truly....
Goals are dreams with deadlines
Image by kevindooley via FlickrGoals are dreams with deadlines. ~Diana Scharf HuntWhat are your dreams ? Be brutally honest and write them down. It does make you vulnerable but isn't that better than never airing them out in daylight ? Break your dream down into doable steps. Commit to doing...
The doors we open and close ....
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. ~Flora Whittemore * Image by Aunt Owwee via FlickrWhenever I've had enough sleep, not over done it on sugar and have no major stressors the world is really a nicer place. The more open minded and...
What should Organized Living do for me ?
Organized living means clearing out the clutter from our lives, in terms of time, money, and psychological space, so that those things that are the highest priority are ensured a place of importance.It means living purposely, not getting caught up in the call of the urgent but rather learning to...
Tough Guide to work
Time to read this post: 7 minutes.Just back to New York after three days in Madrid for work. I've been receiving a lot of requests in the last few weeks from friends and (increasingly) friends of friends asking for advice. They are always interesting, always smart and generally feeling a...
Top 10 approaches to enjoy work
Time to read this post: 6 minutesIt's time to take a position. Why do some people consistently love their work? After multiple degrees, hundreds of academic books & articles, years of interviewing people in their work, I want to summarize what actually works. For people who love their work, what...
Time to read this post: five minutesAbout once a month, I get an email from someone at my company who is confused. They want to change career. They want to get a new job. Sometimes they are just done with work. Almost always they have decided they want their life...
How to change a habit: the pedometer experiment
Time to read: 3 minutesOver the years, I have been to more than my fair share of corporate training courses. In general they are mildly interesting with one of two nuggets of information. The real problem is this: despite my best intentions, I rarely do anything differently when I get...
How to save time - Online countdown
Time to read this post: 1 minute When I use the internet to do some quick research I frequently lose an hour. I start wanting to check a name or date on wikipedia and before I know it I am watching videos on hulu or reading the BBC...
Time to read this post: 1 minuteOne Thursday afternoon in November, the former president of Harvard University and noted orator Edward Everett spoke to a large crowd. Critics thought his speech was "erudite, moving, and well-delivered". Given his speech was over 13,000 words, he clearly had a lot to say.As...
The Journal of Positive Psychology: Articles recently published in
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Experiencing flow: Is doing it together better than doing it alone?
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Sex differences in forgiveness and mental health in recently married couples
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A question of balance: Time perspective and well-being in British and Russian samples
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Are courageous actions successful actions?
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Positive Psychology News Daily
We like to think that we are in charge of our choices. But what if making a choice or decision is based on things that we don’t notice? A new article from Song and Schwarz at the University of Michigan looks at the consequences....
February 3, 2010By Amanda Horne - Are there positive ways to combat employee negativity? Are you interested in improving personal and organizational performance and at the same time personal and organizational well-being? Over the long Christmas ......
Despite the research, very few people ever make a meditative practice part of their daily lives. The most commonly offered excuse is lack of time. I’d like to offer a solution to time constraints. You can combine a meditative practice with another powerful positive psychology intervention – exercise....
Take Me to Pandora, or The Positive Psychology of Avatar
January 29, 2010By Louis Alloro - I want to travel to Pandora, the fictional planet depicted in Avatar. I saw James Cameron’s newest film that has rocked box offices since its release in December on I-MAX ......
(Book review) Positive Motivation: A Six Week Course by Dr. Kennon Sheldon
January 28, 2010By Sean Doyle - How do we choose our goals? How do we decide how to spend our time and energy and where to direct our attention? These are the topics covered in another ......
Cash to spare? How you spend it affects your happiness.
January 26, 2010By Bridget Grenville-Cleave - So you have some extra cash in your pocket. Do you spend it on the latest gizmo or on going to a restaurant with friends? How does your choice ......
happier.com blog | a personal trainer for your happiness
Researchers Measure Smiles to Predict Who Stays Married
The December 13th New York Times Magazines features this piece by Jeff Stryker Say cheese and stay married? Yes, according to Matthew Hertenstein, a psychology professor at DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind. He and three colleagues recruited more than 600 people for a review of their college yearbook photos. The researchers...
Tuesday’s Tip – Teach, Tell, Do
Several years ago, I began to pursue a Master’s degree online. Up until this point, all of my formal education had come as a result of being in a classroom, reading books, taking tests, and writing papers. Now, I would have no contact with other people. I would learn from...
A Secret to Physical Health, Life Longevity, and Cancer (from observing hotel maids)
By happier.com expert Todd Kashdan, Ph.D. I lied. Studying the ins and outs of hotel maids provide absolutely no insight into cancer. Besides lying to you, I have no idea what the politically correct term is for women who clean hotel rooms. Maid? chambermaid? housekeeper? female room attendant? If I offend anyone,...
What is Solutions-Focused Coaching?
At happier.com, we were pleased to hear about the new workbook and study guide: Positively Speaking. We asked coach and consultant Paul Z. Jackson, the guide’s author, to explain to us the solutions-focused approach that characterizes his work. What is solutions-focused coaching? One of the managers I have been coaching complained that...
People who feel isolated may spread mistrust of social connections Originally posted on ScienceNews, by Lisa Grossman Staying socially connected may be just as important for public health as washing your hands and covering your cough. A new study suggests that feelings of loneliness can spread through social networks like the common...
Five Tips for Reducing Holiday Stress
Let’s play a game of associations: close your eyes and write down five words that instinctively come in mind when you hear the word…: “Holidays”. If you’re like me, your ideal thought of the Holiday season involves sitting on a snowy day next to the fireplace wearing a sweater while...
Senia.com Positive Psychology Coaching & Research
I’ve seen “This Emotional Life.” Now what?
When I coached Bill O’Connor on This Emotional Life, we spent about 80% of our time on job-related coaching, and 20% of our time on assessments like you saw on TV. As PBS writes: With the help of [an executive] coach specializing in positive psychology Bill was able to refocus...
SUBJECT: e-intro: Joyce and Richard Hi Joyce and Richard, It’s a pleasure to introduce you two, and given that you go to so many of hte same conferences, I’m surprised you don’t already know each other. You may be interested in working together on some projects down the road together...
How to Give Good Recommendations for Places, People, Things
Funny situation. I was part of a team that was consulting to a large group. We each had responsibility for a section of the large group. I had grown to like the people in my section a lot. The people were visiting our town and were...
How to Not Tell People’s Secrets
I used to have a big mouth when I was a kid. A huge mouth. When people would tell me secrets, I used to tell them to other people right away. I was a jerk. And when I was a teen, one specific person told me...
Some recent proposed strengths
On PPND, we’re having a discussion this month of what additional strengths may be worth pursuing. Here are the nominations so far: Get-it-out-the-Door – good examples of people who have this, including Asimov and da Vinci Thinking “critically” – great quote in this article by Oliver Wendell Holmes about “simplicity on the other...
Why are we less hungry when it’s hot outside?
I don’t know the answer. I’m wondering if you might. Or might have heard of any research about this....
Innate Intelligence - The Science of Thriving
Pay it Forward: Elevation Leads to Altruistic Behavior
Seeing someone perform a virtuous deed (especially if they are helping another person), makes us feel good, often eliciting a warm, fuzzy feeling in our chest. This positive, uplifting emotion, known as “elevation,” might make us feel great, and also gets us to go out and perform good acts ourselves....
Pheromones in male perspiration reduce women’s tension
Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania and the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia have found that exposure to male perspiration has marked psychological and physiological effects on women: It can brighten women’s moods, reducing tension and increasing relaxation, and also has a direct effect on the release of luteinizing...
Happy people may have more immunities to common cold
People who are energetic, happy and relaxed are less likely to catch colds, while those who are depressed, nervous or angry are more likely to complain about cold symptoms, whether or not they get bitten by the cold bug, according to a recent study. Psychosomatic Medicine, July 2003 ...
When someone is described as “chilly,” we understand it means “unfriendly” and not that they should put on a sweater. But using low temperature to capture social remoteness is more than just a convention of language. According to a number of studies, there may be a psychological reason for connecting...
Parenting can override effect of genes in how babies respond to stress
Now, it appears how infants respond to stress is linked to if they have a particular form of a certain gene, according to a new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Just as significantly, researchers say they have also found that good parenting – as early as...
“In our earlier study, we found that middle-age people who practice yoga gained less weight over a 10-year period than those who did not. This was independent of physical activity and dietary patterns. We hypothesized that mindfulness – a skill learned either directly or indirectly through yoga – could affect...
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