April 2009

29 Apr

Posted at 17:35h in Uncategorized by

Round & Round & Round It Goes The voices in our heads can be real buzz-kills. "I’m not whatever enough." I should be (doing) X, I should be (doing) Y, I should be (doing) Z. WinterSome call this voice “the gremlin” or saboteur. Others look at it is as a radio station that plays recurring tunes of self-limiting beliefs embedded into our subconscious minds.  Whatever you call it, these voices have harmful effects.  Positive psychologists sometimes suggest that it is our own, self-deprecating mind chatter which holds us in the bonds of ordinance. Our thoughts and belief systems can become our realities. Limiting...

15 Apr

Posted at 13:44h in Action Research, Character Strength, Positive Psychology, Relationships by

“Life is an experiment and the more experiments you make the better." -Ralph Waldo Emerson * How about a strengths experiment? * Enough about weakness! One of the major contributions to Positive Psychology in the past decade has been the VIA Classification of Strength and Virtue (Peterson & Seligman, 2004). This work has been published in response to the DSM – the classification of mental disorders (like depression and anxiety) that mental health professionals have used for so long. * So then what about STRENGTH? * Chris Peterson and Martin Seligman have identified twenty-four character strengths that are ubiquitous across time and culture—from Jesus’...

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