Positive Psychology Exercises: Self Compassion Letter & Your Daily Holiday

[@ToDoListDotMom]

This is brilliant - self-care and self-compassion in a nutshell.

[@Positivepsychologyprogram101]

Thank you so much Tracey! Be sure to take one of those daily holidays today. You deserve it ;-)

[@agmaxwell6476]

Writing a letter about self and then another from a friend's perspective is a good idea to have a compassionate view and to think of happiness as a verb helps us to be actively engaged instead of pursuing happiness which implies we do not have it.

[@Positivepsychologyprogram101]

Exactly AG, exactly. You said it in that last part of your sentence.

[@atmybest]

Thanks for creating this guys. Look forward to seeing the next one!

[@Positivepsychologyprogram101]

Maybe next week! Feel free to subscribe to our channel :)

[@humamughal7994]

Thank you for sharing this video with much more into it....i simply liked it the way it has been depicted by pictorial...to get ourselves grounded and stable throughout day...Best of luck with much more ahead present and spread out with well-being, compassion and resilience....

[@VandadoNascimento]

Very Good! I work self compassion with my clients but i use more times the self compassion meditation. Now, you motivate me to use the letter :). Well done! Loving IT!

[@Positivepsychologyprogram101]

Glad to hear you like the two positive psychology exercises Vanda! Enjoy!

[@lindabeitz6062]

Love it!! simple and effective...left me smiling :)

[@Positivepsychologyprogram101]

That's wonderful to hear Linda. I think starting small is important, which is why simple exercises can be such a useful tool in coaching or in a classroom setting for instance.

[@fatimamiranda9556]

Very good practice! Thanks

[@Positivepsychologyprogram101]

Thanks a lot for your supper Fatima. Means the world to us all this positive feedback.

[@coachbillturpin]

Love this!

[@Positivepsychologyprogram101]

And we love you Bill ;-)

[@TropicalislandRB]

Love the narrative, but the video and the music look and sound manic. I think animations are great but these feels so fast and discordant, it is difficult to feel calm and happy.

[@relivramento]

nice video Seph, congrats!

[@Positivepsychologyprogram101]

The credits really go to Catarina and our new voice actor George, but thanks a lot Vanda!

[@relivramento]

So congrats everybody!!!!

[@hariharsubedi4259]

Quite interesting. It is helpful.

[@Positivepsychologyprogram101]

Glad to hear that Harihar!

[@howtobehappy1100]

Good job guys :-)

[@GrupoMotiva]

Positive psychology in Costa Rica! Bring it

[@Positivepsychologyprogram101]

Alright Eduardo - put it on the map over there!

[@sandrasmith992]

the music is annoying.

[@DAClub-uf3br]

I have never had that kind of friend. My friend would advise me to live like themselves. As for suggestion 2 there is nothing I enjoy doing.

[@tassiaroucha]

Great! Simple and effective. It is going to be very usefull to my clients, thank u!

[@Positivepsychologyprogram101]

That's exactly what we were going for Tassia: to help you in your role as a coach to help your clients. Best of luck and lots of fun!

[@satya-artofselfeducation1863]

Iam ready to demonstrate p.psy

[@sumathybalaji5252]

Useful video

[@Mase-gt2ds]

shoutout psych 365

[@jemalteshome3467]

i like it very much the pictorial presentation . it is interesting, clear and precise

[@catarinalino5279]

Glad you liked it Jemal ;)

[@kathryn.gardner.counseling]

Thanks for the tips and encouragement! 😄

[@penelopeevans4417]

LOVE This! Would feel complete for me in a focus on gratefulness particularly on the daily holiday!

[@Grace-zl5zv]

VERY POSITIVE AND REALLY GOT ALOT OUT OF THIS AND WILL BE DOING THE LETTER EXERCISE WHICH I KNOW IS VERY MOVING

[@stevebean1234]

WHY ? Seriously.

[@diegovarela4690]

2:36

[@ajmarr5671]

Quick Motivational Procedure that you never heard of involving the management of positive affect. Want to make popcorn taste better? Then eat popcorn while watching an exciting movie. We ‘know’ this non-consciously when we buy the stuff for the latest Tom Cruise movie. The reason? Opioid-dopamine interactions. Opioid and dopamine systems are comprised of clusters of brain cells or ‘nuclei’ in the midbrain that adjoin each other. Opioids cause pleasure or ‘liking’ and are activated in sex, eating, resting, etc., and dopamine systems cause attentive arousal or ‘wanting’ and are activated by the perception or anticipation of novel and positive means-end expectancies, like that Tom Cruise movie. These two systems interact, thus if we do something pleasurable, we get attentive, and if we get attentive our pleasures increase. This also happens when we follow a resting protocol such as mindfulness, and alternate it with the anticipation and performance of meaningful behavior which may be defined by the virtual perception of novel and positive mean-end expectancies (writing your great novel or just making the bed). So just get rested and alternate with doing meaningful behavior, and you will have such ‘flow’ like experiences and find that motivation becomes pleasurable, and thus much easier. More on this on the web site of the distinguished affective neuroscientist Kent Berridge of the University of Michigan who thought much of this stuff up, all of whose research articles are available for download. A more formal explanation based on Berridge’s research (or a neurologically grounded theory of learning) is provided on pp. 5-6, and 44-51 in a little open-source book on the psychology of rest linked below. (‘flow’ discussed on pp.82-87) www.scribd.com/doc/284056765/The-Book-of-Rest-The-Odd-Psychology-of-Doing-Nothing Berridge Lab, University of Michigan sites.lsa.umich.edu/berridge-lab/