By Louis Alloro, Positive Psychology News Daily 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 3-D and have since been urging friends to run, not walk, to see this movie. The message inherent [...]
From post It’s Not Your Parents’ Fault by Morty Lefkoe on his blog. One of the most common questions we get from people who use our free belief-elimination site is, “I don’t think I got my beliefs from my parents. “Can’t negative self-esteem beliefs be formed from interactions with siblings or later in life from [...]
Some authors, including Kay Redfield Jamison, think there is more to depression than negativity. How can sadness be of any possible benefit? In the following article, Timothy T.C. So discusses the positive side of sadness. The emphasis of positive psychology on building the best things in life and making people’s lives fulfilling does not imply [...]
Do we need to create new beliefs? By Morty Lefkoe “The Lefkoe Method is very effective at eliminating negative beliefs. But why don’t you replace them with positive beliefs?” This is a very common question so I decided to devote this week’s post to answering it. For many years we did attempt to “install” positive [...]
Here is a sampling from the article “Perfectionism and Depression: What to Do When Being a Perfectionist Drags You Down,” by Sedona Training Associates staff and Hale Dwoskin: Do you ever think the following self-limiting beliefs? * It’s not OK to make a mistake * People will not like me if I’m not perfect * [...]
In this scene from “Twilight,” Edward (Robert Pattinson) is telling his love interest Bella (Kristen Stewart): “It would be better if we weren’t friends, not that I don’t want to be. If you were smart, you’d stay away from me.” Psychologists Jeremy Clyman and Ryan M. Niemiec consider it to be a “very important positive [...]
Mood disorders like anxiety and depression generally interfere with thinking and creativity. A variety of writers including Eric Maisel, Kay Redfield Jamison and Tom Wootton express different perspectives on my site Depression and Creativity. There is even a post on Irritable Male Syndrome, about the work of Jed Diamond. But what about being grumpy? Here [...]
From article: Stuck? You May Have Eyes Wide Shut Syndrome, By Valery Satterwhite “I’ve been told that I’m incompetent, socially retarded, maladjusted. I still know that I couldn’t function in reality. Los Angeles is a good place for me.” – Diablo Cody, Writer, “Juno” What seems painful, limiting or defeating can become a source of [...]
Dacher Keltner (PhD in Social Psychology, Stanford University) has worked with Paul Ekman, and is now a professor in U.C. Berkeley’s Psychology Department. Here are the Youtube notes from the following video : In Born to Be Good, Dacher Keltner demonstrates that humans are not hardwired to lead lives that are “nasty, brutish, and short” [...]
The growth mindset In her book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, Stanford psychology professor Carol Dweck explains how important attitude can be in developing our talents. “This growth mindset is based on the belief that your basic qualities are things you can cultivate through your efforts,” she writes. “Although people may differ in every [...]
“Saying what you want while holding energy against it doesn’t work. That is what most of us are doing with the Universe. We’re giving it conflicting directions. “It’s like a director saying to me ‘cross stage left but don’t move.’ I’m stuck. I can’t complete both directions because they cancel each other out.” Dee Wallace [...]
From her article: Emotion Regulation: The 25th Character Strength Mindfulness can help end emotional suffering. Mindfulness applied to emotions means “the nonjudgmental observation and description of one’s current emotional responses” (Linehan, 1993). Some other ways to be mindful of your emotions are to: * Observe your emotion. Note its presence. Step back. Get unstuck from [...]
From article Are You Suffering From Cumulative Stress?, by Bertil Hjert, author of the Panic Goodbye program : For many people, finding an outlet where you are free from worry is a great way to find some respite from the stress. Find time in your day to do something you enjoy. Do you have a [...]
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 [...]
Laura Berman Fortgang relates a story about the Dalai Lama addressing a group of scientists and saying “Curiosity is part of my life, part of my self. Look at this body. Some areas have more hair, some less. Why?” Fortgang continues in her book The Little Book on Meaning: Why We Crave It, How We [...]
Morty Lefkoe notes how much power beliefs have to affect our actions, identity and esteem. He describes his therapeutic approach to eliminate the beliefs that cause our behavioral and emotional patterns. “All meaning is in our minds. All beliefs are merely the meaning we assign to what we observe. Before I explain how this axiom [...]
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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.
