哈佛幸福课 课件 1504 02 premises.ppt

Vision of Psychology Human nature immutable (constrained) Role is to understand nature… … and make best use of it The Permission to be Human Unconditional Acceptance(Rogers, 1961) Rejecting our nature leads to unhappiness Paradox: “Ironic Processing” (Wegner, 1994) The Great Deception Not resignation Active acceptance True to reality “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can change, and the wisdom to know the difference.”  Reinhold Niebuhr PREMISE 5:Happiness is and ought to be our ultimate endVS.Happiness should be a secondary pursuit Happiness as the Highest End “Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” Aristotle “Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, the very purpose of our life is happiness, the very motion of our life is towards happiness.” Dalai Lama “If we were to ask the question: ‘What is human lifes chief concern?’ one of the answers we should receive would be: ‘It is happiness.’ How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness, is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.” William James What’s Good About Positive Emotions? It feels good to feel good Broaden and build (Fredrickson, 2002) “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... I call this the broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions because positive emotions appear to broaden people’s momentary thought-action repertoires and build their enduring personal resources... Through experiences of positive emotions people transform themselves, becoming more creative, knowledgeable, resilient, socially integrated, and healthy individuals.” What’s