There is a guest post by yours truly over at The Positivity Blog called How to Create Positive Emotions.
The post is all about why positive emotions are important for personal growth and how we can experience more positive emotions in our day to day lives.
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The idea behind this post is quite similar to the idea behind another post I recently wrote, Boost Your Personal Growth by Learning a New Language.
The basic idea is that who we are thinking about when we are doing something actually has a big impact on how we do that something.
For example, the researchers [...]
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When you get right down to it, most methods of achieving personal growth are rooted in common sense. I think common sense tells us that bad relationships can certainly hold us and our personal growth back, but I never really thought ending a bad relationship could actually be a boost to personal growth.
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The last post was missing something, and it finally occurred to me what it is, positive feedback!
“The end result of positive feedback is often amplifying and “explosive”, i.e. a small perturbation results in big changes. This feedback, in turn, will drive the system further away from its original setpoint, thus amplifying the original perturbation signal, [...]
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“We should work to cultivate positive emotions in ourselves and in those around us not just as end states in themselves, but also as a means to achieving psychological growth and improved psychological and physical health over time.” - Barbara Fredrickson
Most of us think about positive emotions as an end goal. We see them as [...]
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