“If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.” Eckhart Tolle – from The Power of Now. What we anticipate and imagine can be so much worse than reality, and make our distress all the more intense. Being uncertain makes it [...]
Video: The Failure of Success and the Pain of “I Me, Me, Mine” – Mindfulness and Psychotherapy with Ronald D. Siegel, PsyD – includes a number of concepts related to positive psychology, including narcissistic calibration, the utility of spiritual perspectives, developing identity, facing fears and more. Ronald D. Siegel, PsyD is a clinical psychologist, a [...]
Many seemingly helpful and encouraging aphorisms and wise sayings passed along in centuries of literature may not be so wise after all, as Yee-Ming Tan of Positive Psychology News Daily notes. She writes that she “just finished reading Malcolm Gladwell’s latest book Outliers: The Story of Success. “Much of what Gladwell has to say about [...]
What we choose to be, the dreams we invest time and energy in pursuing, the ways we relate to other people and the world, how passionately we develop our talents, how we identify and esteem ourselves – all are impacted by our beliefs. “It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us [...]
positive psychology books, mindfulness books, positive psychology news, calmness In her article Mindfulness: A Call to Clarification, Kirsten Cronlund (Positive Psychology News Daily) notes a metaphor that can serve for resilience, equanimity and Wu-wei, the experience of “knowing when to act and when not to act.” She writes, “A widely used metaphor in Eastern philosophy [...]
In his article “One Approach to Apply Immediately When Stress is Affecting Your Professional and Personal Life!“, Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D. writes : “Mindfulness is the ability to intentionally paying attention to the present moment without our filters of judgment (e.g., good/bad, right/wrong, fair/unfair). “In other words, it is the art of cultivating the ability to [...]
happiness research, mindfulness, depression relief products, positive psychology Learning to be happy “It’s almost as if this happiness stuff has anticipated the hard times to come. As we’re going into this recession, perhaps depression, it’s interesting to note there’s been this big upsurge of work on happiness just prior to that.” That is David Van [...]
Josh Waitzkin was a National Chess Champion as a boy, and the subject of the movie Searching for Bobby Fischer. He writes in his new book The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance about finding at a young age that “there is something profoundly hollow about the nature of fame. I had [...]
Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. is author of Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life. Here is an excerpt from her ShrinkRapRadio.com podcast interview: Happiness has quite a specific meaning. It doesn’t necessarily mean “pleased.” We often, I think, equate “pleased” with “happy.” Things are going my way. I feel pleased, that’s good, I’m [...]
Ken Wilber : Eckhart Tolle says that what he is doing is essentially a reestablishment of Eastern forms of meditation and in one sense that is certainly true, although we do find this in Western forms of contemplation as well…paying attention to the timeless now, to the pure present and doing that as a gateway [...]
The reality that you accept is made up of a matrix of interacting belief systems that can either be useful to you or disempower you. Financial beliefs that can disempower you include convictions such as “It’s hard to make money,” “You have to be born into wealth,” or “You have to work for years to [...]
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Site author: Douglas Eby, M.A./Psychology, is a writer and researcher on the psychology of creative expression and personal growth, especially for high ability adults. He is publisher of the Talent Development Resources series of sites.
