{"id":93,"date":"2009-03-09T14:49:24","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T19:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"httpjuliecusmariu.com\/blog\/?p=93"},"modified":"2009-03-09T14:49:24","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T19:49:24","slug":"happiness-positive-psychology-and-life-coaching-focusing-on-what-is-positive-and-what-works-to-experience-greater-fulfillment-and-meaning-in-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliecusmariu.com\/staging\/2009\/03\/life-coaching\/happiness-positive-psychology-and-life-coaching-focusing-on-what-is-positive-and-what-works-to-experience-greater-fulfillment-and-meaning-in-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Happiness, Positive Psychology and Life Coaching; focusing on what is positive and what works to experience greater fulfillment and meaning in life."},"content":{"rendered":"

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To no surprise, there is a lot of talk these days about\u00a0 finding ways to bring more happiness, meaning and purpose in our lives.\u00a0 One of the most popular courses at Harvard University, taught by Tal Ben Shahar<\/a> Ph.D., is about exactly this topic; happiness and ‘the good life’.\u00a0 The quest for happiness is not a new quest in the history of humankind, but it does seem to be increasingly relevant and important in this day and age and in particular\u00a0 in the scientific community.<\/p>\n

In 1998, Dr. Martin\u00a0 Seligman<\/a>, former president of the American Psychological Association, set out to focus on the science of\u00a0 happiness and became instrumental in launching\u00a0 a new field of psychology known as Positive Psychology. Positive Psychology is the empirical study of positive emotions and the optimal functioning of individuals and institutions. It is a branch of psychology that shifts the focus from pathology and mental illness to a focus on well-being and fulfillment.<\/p>\n

Similar to the\u00a0 Positive Psychology movement, the coaching profession is grounded in supporting and aligning individuals and organizations with their strengths, values and skills to function optimally and meaningfully. Coaching shares a\u00a0 similar philosophy to Positive Psychology in that it focuses on what is working and what is right within an individual and in an organization.<\/p>\n

In recent years, coaching\u00a0 has increased in popularity so much so that it\u00a0 has become one of the world’s fastest growing\u00a0 professions.\u00a0 Coaches, while holding a positive focus, support their clients in bringing more fulfillment and happiness into their everyday lives. Much of the coaching profession benefits from the developments in Positive Psychology, as do we all as our ever elusive quest for happiness as a society continues on.<\/p>\n

What are your<\/strong> strengths? What brings you<\/strong> meaning in your life? What do you<\/strong> love to do?<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to watch a 23 video minute presentation on Positive Psychology by Dr. Martin Seligman at TED<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To no surprise, there is a lot of talk these days about\u00a0 finding ways to bring more happiness, meaning and purpose in our lives.\u00a0 One of the most popular courses at Harvard University, taught by Tal Ben Shahar Ph.D., is about exactly this topic; happiness and ‘the good life’.\u00a0 The quest for happiness is not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,38],"tags":[37,39],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-coaching","category-psychology","tag-happiness","tag-positive-psychology-and-life-coaching"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliecusmariu.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliecusmariu.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliecusmariu.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliecusmariu.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliecusmariu.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/juliecusmariu.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/juliecusmariu.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliecusmariu.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliecusmariu.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliecusmariu.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}