Brilliant Positive Psychology

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Brilliant Positive Psychology
3. Contents
4. Acknowledgements
5. What is brilliant about positive psychology
   1. Background and history
   2. How positive psychology as an idea came to be
   3. The terms of happiness
   4. How to measure happiness and well-being
   5. What the research says
   6. Nothing is in isolation
   7. The power of choice
6. Happiness and psychological well-being
   1. Two ways to be happy
   2. The happiness formula
   3. Happiness and sorrow
   4. Happiness as a measure of psychological well-being
   5. Psychological well-being
   6. How strong are the foundations of your psychological well-being? (1/3)
   7. How strong are the foundations of your psychological well-being? (2/3)
   8. How strong are the foundations of your psychological well-being? (3/3)
   9. Happiness and time
   10. Happiness and choice
7. How to build positive feelings and become happier
   1. The importance of positive emotions
   2. Positive emotion as a positive resource
   3. Building positive feelings: how to increase lasting positive emotion (1/2)
   4. Building positive feelings: how to increase lasting positive emotion (2/2)
   5. Finding flow
   6. Becoming present
   7. How to become more present
   8. Feeling good in and beyond the present moment . . . lasting pleasure
   9. Start NOW!
8. Do more of what you love and set better goals
   1. Do you get up in the morning excited about the day?
   2. Natural talent
   3. Being authentic
   4. Remembering flow
   5. Finding your strengths
   6. Using strengths to express values
   7. What do we mean by values?
   8. Three importants points to remember about using your strengths
   9. Goals
   10. Uncertainty
   11. Hope
   12. Positive thinking is better thinking
   13. Positive steps to achieving your goals
   14. Past experiences and their influence on your goals
   15. Is action in conflict with your values?
   16. Goals and fear
   17. Improving self-efficacy or self-belief
9. Emotional well-being: Building better relationships with ourselves and others
   1. Emotional control
   2. Emotional intelligence
   3. Catching your feelings
   4. Putting emotional intelligence to work
   5. Building a positive relationship with your romantic partner
   6. Putting positive psychology to work with your partner and all close relationships
   7. Self-regard, your relationship with yourself (1/2)
   8. Self-regard, your relationship with yourself (2/2)
10. How to become more resilient and cope better
    1. What is resilience?
    2. What makes a resilient person?
    3. The role of perception
    4. Attributional and explanatory style
    5. Taming the gremlin
    6. Building an optimistic explanatory style
    7. The power of optimism
    8. Coping optimistically and building your resilience
    9. Emotional coping strategies (1/2)
    10. Emotional coping strategies (2/2)
11. Find out what matters: Having purpose in your life
    1. Why do we need meaning/purpose?
    2. How to find meaning
    3. Values that identify us socially and culturally
    4. Finding what we need and value is just the beginning!
    5. Create a mission statement
    6. Living authentically
    7. Telos
    8. Money and fame
    9. The cost of materialistic values
12. Getting wise: Developing your spiritual well-being
    1. Wisdom (1/2)
    2. Wisdom (2/2)
    3. Developing your spirituality
    4. The advantages of religious belief and practice
    5. Spiritual practices that support well-being (1/2)
    6. Spiritual practices that support well-being (2/2)
    7. Mindfulness
    8. Meditation
13. Positive health: How to build physical well-being and live longer
    1. Physical well-being (1/2)
    2. Physical well-being (2/2)
    3. Having fun and getting healthy
    4. How to develop healthy habits
14. Putting positive psychology to work at work
    1. Positive psychology applied to performance and achievement (1/2)
    2. Positive psychology applied to performance and achievement (2/2)
    3. Positive psychology applied to business relationships (1/2)
    4. Positive psychology applied to business relationships (2/2)
    5. Positive psychology and meaningful work
    6. Transformational leadership
    7. Happiness at work
15. Afterword
    1. Choice
    2. Complexity
    3. Creativity
16. List of values
17. Useful bibliography
18. References (1/3)
19. References (2/3)
20. References (3/3)
21. Index (1/2)
22. Index (2/2)