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Think about the good in theworld, or otherwise find positive meaning, and you seed your own positiveemotions. A focus on goodness cannotonly change your life and your community, but perhaps also the world,and in time create a heaven on earth
The "create heaven on earth" part is a little hokey but it does make me really wonder what we could create if we all were more kind. That kindness would lead us to seem more of those feelings, which would lead us to do better and better things for each other. We really COULD create a society that feels really good to be alive in.
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poor choices, especiallyin trying times. Based on our recent experiment with college students, my advice would be to cultivate positive emotions indirectly by finding positivemeaning within current circumstances.Positive meaning can be obtained byfinding benefits within adversity, by infusing ordinary events with meaningand by effective problem solving. Youcan find benefits in a grim world, forinstance, by focusing on the newfo
Is this why gratitude journaling is shown to help people so much? Essentially, they're finding things in their every day to feel good about. Finding something to be grateful for when everything feels terrible is very difficult but really does help you zoom out and look at the bigger picture.
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than simply feelgood in the present. The undoing effect suggests that positive emotionscan reduce the physiological "damage"on the cardiovascular system sustainedby feeling negative emotions. But someother research suggests that there'smore to it than that. It appears that experiencing positive emotions increasesthe likelihood that one w
This goes back to the idea that positive emotions lead to resiliency. That ability to endure hardship and not have it effect you as much on a deep level means you'll feel good for more time in your life.
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g hypothesments. We begaemotion: We tohad one minutewo
I love public speaking so I would have ruined their study. lol
I wonder how they control for different things like that though? Like you can't control for every single aspect. I guess this is why they use a good sample. Then they can toss the outliers?
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he pen people's thtoires, they mthat negativemind and bodfor specific
It's interesting to think that feeling positive emotions can even make it so you don't experience negative emotions as strongly, not only mentally but dampens the physiological reaction.
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So "feeling
Boom, there it is, the answer. Positive emotions ARE essential. When they felt good, our ancestors gathered resources.
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t positiveemotions strongly as well. They werealso half as likely to be depressed. Ourstatistical analyses showed that theirtendency to feel more positive emotions buffered the resilient peopleagainst depression
Not all depression is because of loads of trauma, it's a chemical imbalance that we can't escape. I wonder how they controlled for that? Or if the study even tested this?
I have everything going for me right now but I have days where I get sucked back into my depression because it's always there.
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The people were originallyinterviewed in the early months of2001, and then again in the days afterthe September 11th terrorist attacks.We asked them to identify the emotions they were feeling, what they hadlearned from the attacks and how optimistic they were about the future.
I'm really curious as to what their plan was before 9/11 gave everyone the same traumatic event they had to live through together. Like... ? Because I feel that if people were all living through different events, what would they have asked about?
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Although their immediate motivationsmay be simply hedonistic?to enjoythe moment?they are at the sametime building physical, intellectual,psychological and social resources.The physical activity leads to longterm improvements in health, thegame-playing strategies develop problem-solving skills, and the camaraderie strengthens social bonds thatmay provide crucial support at sometime in the future (Figure 4).
This is why it's so important to be well socialized as a kid. It really helps you have more situational awareness and emotional intelligence.
Safe youth centers with little to no cost is something I'd love to see. Letting kids have a place to go and be social while having fun provides a lot of benefits.
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Content analyses revealed thatphysicians who felt good were faster tointegrate case information and less likely to become anchored on initialthoughts or come to premature closurein their diagnosis.
I think this is a huge problem in medicine now. Doctors are so overcommitted and under resourced in a lot of places that they are in a very stressed and negative mindset. When you are just trying to get through the days you don't want to dig deeper into something.
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cts of positive emotions on thiriking. Two decadesof experiments by Alice Isen of CornellUniversity and her colleagues haveshown that people experiencing positive affect (feelings) think differently
I want to find this study. Knowing the methodology will all me to decide what I really think about the outcome.
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In my broaden-and-build theory, I propose that the positive emotions broaden an individual's momentary mindset, and by doing so help to buildenduring personal resources. We
"enduring personal resources" I love this phrasing. There is so much to be said about the things you can truly learn and build inside yourself when you are able to experience a lot of positive emotions.
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The models that emphasize the roleof these specific action tendencies typically cast the emotions as evolvedadaptations. The negative emotionshave an intuitively obvious adaptivevalue: In an instant, they narrow ourthought-action repertoires to those thatbest promoted our ancestors' survivalin life-threatening situations. In thisview, negative emotions are efficientsolutions to recurrent problems thatour ancestors faced.Positive emotions, on the otherhand, aren't so easily explained. Fromthis evolutionary perspective, joy,serenity and gratitude don't seem asuseful as fear, anger or disgust. Thebodily changes, urges to act and the facial expressions produced by positiveemotions aren't as specific or as obviously relevant to survival as thosesparked by negative emotions.
I found the theory behind negative emotions being "useful" and positive emotions not having much to do with our survival very interesting. I think positive emotions are really essential to our ancestors survival.
If life didn't feel worth living, they wouldn't have worked so hard to stay alive and prolong their lives. When all you know are negative emotions, it's hard advance things around you in a novel way.
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shable autonomie responses.The study of positive emotions hasalso been hindered because scientists attempted to understand them with models that worked best for negative emotions. Cen
I think this is common in science - trying to use a model for something else to measure something. Until you really have a good understanding of a subject, it's hard to build a good model. And it's hard to have a good understanding of something without starting somewhere.
My scientists are always refining their models based on new things they learn from the old models.
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the Duchenne smile?in which the corners of the lips are raised and the muscles are contracted around the eyes,which raises the cheeks
It's cool to know what the specific smile we do is called. I looked it up and this is the smile that shows genuine positive emotion and is hard to fake.
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The negative emotions have specific facial configurations that imbuethem with universally recognized signal value. We can readily identify
This reminds me of a TV show from like the 00's called "Lie to Me." The main character was really good at reading human emotions and he studied it as a way to get people to tell the truth. They would play a game where they'd flash micro-facial expressions on the screen and shout out the emotion it indicated.
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is, of course,the natural tendency to study somethingthat afflicts the well-being of humanity?and the expression and experience ofnegative emotions are responsible formuch of what ails this world. But it
This x 100. If we could create a society where people's needs are met, we'd see less negative emotion, and more harmony. Negative emotions are always going to be around but we could be doing more to help minimize them.
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though the discovery thatpeople who think positively and feelgood actually live longer is remarkable, itraises more questions than it answers.Exactly how do positive thinking andpleasant feelings help people live longer?Do pleasant thoughts and feelings helppeople Uve better as well? And why arepositive emotions a universal part of human nature? My r
It definitely raises a lot of questions. The mechanisms in the body that react to positive emotions (blood pressure, etc) can now be studied in new ways to see how it can damage your body and maybe we can lead to new discoveries in how to treat high blood pressure.
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ch as anger, anxietyand sadness. The study of optimismand positive emotions was seen bysome as a frivolous pursuit. But th
Optimism and positive emotions are 100% tied to the traditional view of femininity so it's not surprising to me that studying this subject was seen as unworthy. Misogyny is very subtle and shows up in ways like this.
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gnificant advances in curing ills. In 1947, none ofthe major mental illnesses were treatable, whereas today 16 are treatable bypsychotherapy, psychopharmacologyor both. Although psycholo
I'm very surprised that at the time this article was published (2003) that only 16 of the "major mental illnesses" were considered treatable. What are those major mental illnesses?
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hat they found was remarkable: The nuns who expressed themost positive emotions lived up to 10
I'd like to know more about the writings of these nuns. Were they all from the same convent/area? Maybe the ones that expressed more happiness did so because they lived in an area where they were able to access more healthcare, modern amenities, etc.
Those things would impact their longevity compared to nuns that live in more "primitive" areas.
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