The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that the army has decided to begin using the training provided by positive psychologists to better protect and sustain the mental health of troops in combat situations:
Worried about rising suicide rates and thousands of soldiers with posttraumatic stress disorder, the Army is launching the Comprehensive Soldier Fitness program to help 1.1 [...]
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If you’re in Philadelphia from June 18th to 21st you might want to check out the World Congress on Positive Psychology. The event is the first of its kind as positive psychology is still quite a new discipline. It likely wont be the last though, as some of the biggest names in the field are [...]
Have you subscribed yet?Author and life coach Caroline Adams Miller has recently started a youtube channel, with several good videos up and, it’s safe to assume, more to come.
According to her bio, Caroline is also a graduate of the MAPP (Masters in Applied Positive Psychology) program at the University of Pennsylvania, which is taught in part by Martin [...]
There is no shortage of people who will be only too happy to remind you that changing yourself is not possible. They will scorn any arguments to the contrary and belittle the efforts of others who try to change and become better people.
Some people are quick to tell other people they cant change because they [...]
I am, if nothing else, predictable. I often spend the hour or so before bed coming up with all kinds of great ideas that I will definitely, absolutely implement as soon as I get up the next morning. I write them down and make sure to put the note in a place I will see [...]
Have you subscribed yet?There’s a post written by your truly over at AlexShalman.com called How to Escape the Curse of Being Average.
I really believe that a desire to be average is ingrained in to us from a lot of different sources but being average really isn’t all that great of a thing to want to be. I think [...]
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A few months ago I read Jeff Warren’s Head Trip: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness (you can read a fascinating interview with Jeff Warren here) which deals with all the different states of consciousness that exist. Most people would say there are two, maybe three states of consciousness: awake, sleeping, and dreaming. They [...]
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In the video below, the presenter is Clay Shirky, who brings up an excellent point while talking at the 2008 Web 2.0 Expo. He says that the shocking amount of time that we spend watching TV is shrinking, and is being replaced by time spent online.
And being online is not just about absorbing, [...]
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Back in June I had a post called How You can Participate in Real Positive Psychology Studies. It went over a few really interesting research studies being done by Dr. Martin Seligman that needed volunteers.
Many of these research studies ask people to change their lives in a certain way, the hope being that the [...]
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In his newly released TED talk, Dr. Martin Seligman gives an excellent introduction to the field of Positive Psychology, which is a major part of what’s covered here at Improved Lives.
It’s from 2004, so it misses some of the latest advancements that have been made, but it also covers many of the more [...]
