by Dan Collinson | December, 2016 | EMAPP Portugal
If it is true that positive emotions and positive thinking are beneficial to happiness, making them universal and indispensable requirements for flourishing is reducing the importance of human emotions repertoire. Too much focus on positive thinking and optimism, for...
by Dan Collinson | December, 2016 | self-development, self-growth
Letting go is one of the important things to do in order to keep positive and to be happy. Not so easy though is it? Well I have a story of how Laughter Yoga helped me through a difficult situation. A new start I was living in South Africa about 6 years ago and had...
by Dan Collinson | November, 2016 | self-development
On the way to work today, I was listening to Ray Charles and Elton John singing “sorry seems to be the hardest word.” This got me to think about the importance of “saying sorry” and of “forgiveness”, but also to consider the need...
by Dan Collinson | November, 2016 | Positive Psychology, self-development
“A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.” Bertrand Russell,Kilimanjaro, Tanzania The outstanding legacy of Christopher Peterson, PhD, includes an article entitled “A Quiet Positive...
by Dan Collinson | October, 2016 | Ageing/Aging, Relationships
In a few words, I would like to talk about leisure and share a significant episode of a very old woman of the group I’ve been studying since 2010, the Wednesday Tea programme. It is a ritualised programme for old women. There are moments for conversations, moments for...
