Category Archives: Positive Psychology

What is ‘Flow’? Have you ever been so engrossed in performing a certain activity that almost lost track of what’s happening in your immediate environment? You enjoyed the task so much that you became oblivious to everything else. You could be reading a book, stitching a napkin or watering your garden for quite some time […]

Well-Being should be taught in school. Considering the phenomenal increase in cases of depression among the children attending school it is absolutely must that we taught well-being in our schools. By some estimates depression is about ten times more common now then it was fifty years ago. Typically in an American society this is not […]

I’d be lying both to myself and the person reading this if I claim that the struggle or the social stigma around crying is over. The rolling down of tears can be one of the many blacklisted natural human responses. It invites judgement of being weak or extra sensitive and tonnes of tissues, as if […]

For Sadness 1. Be Sad Don’t force yourself to be happy. As long as you get the work done, no one will notice. You can write down your sad thoughts in an email to yourself or bring a stress relieving toy to work. It’s important not to hold your sad thoughts, let them out. Otherwise […]

A financial crisis can affect not only your professional or personal life but most importantly, your health. It can make you feel as if turning things around will be impossible. 

It is all down to your brains prefrontal cortex. This part of your brain is largely responsible for your willpower, but it is also the area that deals with your short term memory; helping  you to solve abstract problems and keep focused. It would appear that it cannot do both.

she knew that Martin needed strength, she also knew she had to break his pattern of fear   as well her own. She took immediate action and accomplished it all with one statement when he opened his eyes she smiled brightly and said, “It is just a movie babe! it is only a movie! ” Martin said that in that moment he knew he was going to make it and begin to heal.

Your brain difficult time distinguishing between what you see with your eyes and what you visualise in your mind. Infact, MRI scans of people’s brains taken while they are watching the sun set are virtually indistinguishable from scans taken when the same people visualised a  sun set in their mind. The same brain regions are active in both scenarios.

Some employees will experience the desired emotions quite naturally. This can happen in isolated moments of compassion or gratitude. When such feelings arise regularly, that is a sign you are building the culture you want.

One of the research findings of Harvard University tells that a good relationship with family and friends gives us good health and a longer life. As such our thoughts and beliefs have a lot to do with our wellness. Happy positive thoughts create an inner atmosphere of growth, while an unhappy state of mind creates inner resistance and stress leading to loss of health.