Positive Emotions

If you would, please go read this, then come back and go to the continuation of this post.

How'd you respond.  Yes or no?  Affirming or critiquing.  Bringing the emotion the story created in you on into your life, or pushing it out?

Positive psychology research has shown that when we are experiencing positive emotions, we are more creative, collaborative, and connective.  We see the best in others and take them into our lives more.  If you would like to be the best you possible, cultivate, savor, and enhance positive emotions.  Yes, there's a place for emotions like sadness, fear, anger, and even hate.   But why embrace them?  Why in today's world do we seek so often -- through blogs and the news and sometimes even movies and music and books -- to increase our experience of negative emotions, then think it funny or odd or sappy when someone suggests we seek more of the positive emotions?  The negative emotions are unlikely to help you get more of what you want.  Positive emotions, on the other hand, can help you increase the good things in your life.

What's your choice?

Comments

[Atul]

i want a questionnaire based on Czikszentmihalyi’s Eight flow dimensions.
questionnaire should be related to academic performance.