Positive Psychology Lecture（上）.ppt

Permanent Change Gradual Change: Mindfulness Meditation “Cultivating mindfulness can lead to the discovery of deep realms of relaxation, calmness, and insight within yourself... The path to it in any moment lies no farther than your own body and mind and your own breathing.”  Jon Kabatt-Zin “All of us have the capacity to be mindful. All it involves is cultivating our ability to pay attention in the present moment.”  Jon Kabatt-Zin “Mindfulness means seeing things as they are, without trying to change them. The point is to dissolve our reactions to disturbing emotions, being careful not to reject the emotion itself.”  Tara Bennett-Goleman Acute Change Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Widespread (Society for Neuroscience) Creating new pathways (shock treatment) Post traumatic growth (Tedeschi Calhoun) Is there a positive equivalent to trauma? Can a single positive experience create a positive channel that will lead to a permanent increase in well-being, calm, and positive memories? Acute Change Through Peak Experience Acute Change Through Peak Experience “The term peak experiences is a generalization for the best moments of the human being, for the happiest moments of life, for experiences of ecstasy, rapture, bliss, of the greatest joy. I found that such experiences came from profound aesthetic experiences such as creative ecstasies, moments of mature love, perfect sexual experiences, parental love, experiences of natural childbirth, and many others.” Abraham Maslow Peak experience as ‘positive trauma’ Post Peak Experience Order (PPEO) “Peak experiences often have consequences... They can do the same there as psychotherapy, if one keeps his goals right, and if one knows just what he is about, and if one is conscious of what he is going toward. We can certainly talk, on the one hand, of the breaking up of symptoms, like the breaking up of cliches, of anxieties, or the like; or on the other hand, we can talk about the deve