Living Skillfully: Your Mind and Health

This entry is part 1 of 5 in the series Positive PsychologyAs I mentioned in a recent post, with the times the way they are I think it would be good to have a small series on “positive psychology”, the branch of psychology that is concerned with why and how we can be happy.
Let’s begin [...]

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This entry is part 2 of 5 in the series Positive PsychologyContinuing my Positive Psychology series, where better to look for material than the blog Positive Psychology News Daily? And there we find Dave Shearon’s post “Four Statements to Happier“, a simple outline of what he’s learned about what makes us happy.
His statement goes like [...]

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This entry is part 3 of 5 in the series Positive PsychologyI’ve recently finished reading Richard O’Connor’s book Happy at Last: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Finding Joy. O’Connor doesn’t identify himself as part of the Positive Psychology movement, and in fact has some criticisms of it, but I am putting this review in my [...]

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This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series Positive PsychologyI’m studying biological psychology at the moment, and in one of the articles set for us to read I came across a reference to research showing the powerful effect of mental attitude.
The study is called “Does humor moderate the effects of experimentally-induced stress?” (Newman [...]

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This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series Positive PsychologyToday’s post is a difficult one, and at first sight an odd fit for the Positive Psychology series. I’m going to talk about suicide.
The reason is that a relative of mine by marriage has just committed suicide, much to the shock and grief of [...]

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