Winter Depression As the end of October fast approaches, so the evenings become darker as we turn our clocks back an hour and head towards the winter solstice. For many, this signifies the beginning of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and a long road ahead of...
Think for a moment about one of your best friends (perhaps someone that you have been friends with for ages, or got to know more recently and just ‘gelled’ with)…visualise their face …imagine the sound of their voice…maybe looking forward to a planned meet up, or...
Seligman’s Moonshot Goal In Martin Seligman’s seminal book, Flourish, he concludes with what I like to see as his sigh of the soul. He talks of when he was at the first World Congress of the IPPA in 2009 and James Pawelski posed this question: “What vision can we...
This is my Story: Jo-Dee Walmsley I would love to share my story of how I stay positive through using laughter as an exercise without jokes or humor by using Laughter Yoga. Laughter helped me with my relationships, helped me deal with the ups and downs in life and...
I’m a big believer in gratitude and firmly believe that practicing gratitude is good for your wellbeing and happiness. In 2011 when I first took the VIA Character Strengths Test gratitude featured at number 9 on my strengths list. I took the test just prior to...
A couple of years ago I learned about a Positive Psychologist named Barbara Frederickson and her concept of Broaden and Build Theory. This was a light-bulb-epiphany-penny-dropping moment for me. It was also an extremely confronting moment, but seriously life changing...
Positive Psychology is often criticised for focusing on happiness and ignoring the myriad of negative experiences and accompanying emotions that we all have. However this is an over simplification. While Positive Psychology does focus on moving people towards a...
Some of you may have come to realise that one of the latest crazes in the western world is the “pay it forward” concept of conducting random acts of kindness (or RAKS). A RAK, essentially, is when somebody does something kind for someone else (typically a stranger)....
While reading Adrianna Huffington’s book Thrive, she described a very simple, yet effective task that resonated with me. She wrote about the way we interpret the things that we have to do and suggested that instead of thinking about them as tasks that we have to...
Meet the Happiness Ninja The Happiness Ninja fights of sadness by slashing way unhappiness, kicking away the blues and karate chopping tears. I am The Happiness Ninja. I dress in a ninja costume and hit the streets conducting Random Acts of Kindness and advocating...