What Is Positive Psychology?
Positive psychology is a technique of applied psychology where the practitioner and client focus primarily on what if right as opposed to what is wrong. The approach provides guidelines and exercises that help people become more empowered and focused in all areas of life, such as romantic love, finances, work and career, self-care and family balance. However, the core of the work of positive psychology addresses a person's value, thoughts and habits. All of which contribute to basic human function such as resilience, strengths or natural gifts, happiness, passivity, commitment, communication, boundaries and courage.
While a traditional applied psychology will always have a place to treat dysfunction, positive psychology can be used alongside the traditional methods of practice or used independently by coaches that are trained and certified in the new vocation. As an independent trade the practitioners cannot yet bill the insurance companies so the clients will have to come out of pocket. However, since it is a measurable science, it's know that the positive benefits of ongoing and applied positive psychology has lasting benefits for the client and not only to the character of the client, but also positive physical health is affected.
The reasons a persons physical health will be affected so positively has allot to do with Maslow's humanistic movement which explains that when an adult becomes more self-actualized by learning to take responsibility and allow curiosity and creativity to flow through oneself, they will naturally become more confident, flexible and mature, furthermore, able to accept their own feeling and the feeling of the people around them. With self-actualization and the ability to be more diplomatic about situations, the blood pressure and endocrine system will less likely be jolted to deal with unneeded stress.
Where did Positive Psychology come from?
The foundations of positive psychology reach much farther back than the 1930's - 40's when Maslow was studying human psychology. In fact, most of the principals are so incredibly basic that they reach as far back as some Roman philosophers such as Neoplatonism, which basically say that all thing emulate from itself, as if from its own mirror. Breaking it down even further, that we become what we emulate. Example, happy and optimistic feeds positivity and agility.
Also the stories of biblical scripture support the present teaching of positive psychology in the way that more often than not the story's focus on how important it is for individual to focus on character building and treating others well and how having these positive attributes will bring with it a good life.
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