September

24

How Positive Emotions Can Help Us Succeed

Dear Friends,   In the following clips Prof Barbara Fredrickson, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, shares with us some intriguing findings from her studies into the effects of emotions, and discusses her Broaden and Build theory of positive emotions which offers an explanation as to how and why positivity and positive [...]

July

20

How to Deal with Obsessive Negative Thoughts?

Dear friends,   In my Positive Psychology workshops and courses, when we discuss Positivity and positive thinking, I often warn participants not to beat themselves over their past thinking patterns or if they find it difficult to control their thinking and stop thinking negatively. The problem is that when we beat ourselves – we are [...]