Positive psychology is about achieving the things that make life worth living. It is a science which focuses on the achievement of happiness, life satisfaction, well being, and maximal participation in processes which support creativity, meaning, hope, future-orientation, autonomy, and self-regulation. It is about individual subjective experience, traits and actions as well as family, community and workplace structures and practices. It is the study of how the individual and institutions interact and synergise to create flow and peak experience.
Whilst we know a great deal about how human beings survive adversity, and we know much about how to work with pathology and how to heal; our knowledge of the science of well being, health and happiness, is less well developed. Theories of “flow” or peak experience have been advanced for quite some time, but traditionally, western human scientists have operated from problem saturation, rather than from a preventative, positive future orientation. We have been less rigorous in our study of how, why and when individuals thrive and flourish.
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