October

24

Spirit Junkie

Dear friends     In this inspirational Gabrielle Bernstein shares her personal story of how she turned her life around from being a New York City publicist and party girl – into a student of A Course in Miracles, and into a spiritual guide. In her new book, Spirit Junkie: A Radical Road to Self-Love and [...]

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 [...]

September

22

Positivity

Dear Friends,   In the following clip Prof Barbara Fredrickson, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, discusses her new book, “Positivity”. The book explains on what positivity is, and why it is so important to us to be positive. She also discusses her Broaden and Build theory of positive emotions which explains how [...]

September

12

Emotional intelligence

Dear friends   Emotional intelligence (EI) is an ability, skill or, in the case of the trait EI model, a self-perceived ability to identify, assess, and control the emotions of oneself, of others, and of groups. Salovey and Mayer’s who first coined the term, perceive emotions as useful sources of information that help one to [...]

July

22

The Tetris Effect

Applying the Tetris Effect to Change Your Life     Dear friends,   For those of you who are not familiar with Tetris, let me explain first that Tetris is a computer game where block shapes fall from the top of the screen in different combinations and the player has to turn them around to [...]

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 [...]

March

18

Our misery or unhappiness is determined by…

“I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.” Martha Washington

March

17

Words of wisdom from coach John Wooden

Dear friends Here are some words of wisdom about the success and failure from the legendery coach – John Wooden.     [ted id=498]   Dr Rona Hart Positive Psychology Training and Mentoring Programmes Heart Enterprises Ltd London UK Tel: (44)20 89313333 Email: rona@hart2heart.co.uk