When I began writing “A Week of Three Good Things” for my research project, I was a little skeptical of the outcome. After that week of recording “Three Good Things”, I really found myself happier. The purpose of last weeks blog post is to see if my well-being improves based on positive psychology. Positive psychology studies thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, with a focus on strengths rather than weaknesses. Positive psychology does not focus solely on happiness, but instead on well-being.
Well-being can be measured through positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning and accomplishments. This assignment is to help improve my well-being by focusing on gratitude moments, which is the appreciation of what is valuable and meaningful in oneself and represents a general state of thankfulness or appreciation. It was easy for me to remember everyday to write a moment I was grateful for because I was eager to know what or how my day was going to turn out. Whenever a moment would occur, I would really think about it in the moment and afterwards appreciate it. I never really did that before this experiment and it makes the moment more special and thoughtful. This article speaks to how I felt, “By focusing on what we are grateful for, and looking toward what is going right in our lives, it can help reframe our thinking processes”. It has been a week later and even though I haven’t continued writing grateful moments, I still find myself stopping and feeling more appreciative. Before this research project, I was feeling down and almost lonely. In my opinion, I do believe that the ‘Three Good Things” has made me feel so much better and it can be proven from Martin Seligman’s, the father of psychology, PERMA elements. PERMA stands for positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishments. I always overthink situations and my relationships with friends, but I have tried to not worry so much. As I had written on one of my days from last week's blog post, I just asked to hangout with my friend at West Chester University and although we were already close friends, I feel that the more effort I put in with people, it strengthens the relationship and friendship which is very important to me. In the PERMA model, relationships are one of the elements because social relationships and connections are what humans thrive on.
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Taylor D
11/12/2018 09:05:10 pm
The three good things didn't have a major impact on me but it is great to see how it changed your mood and outlook on positive moments.
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Chrissie FackenthallI will use this blog to write and post weekly assignments for my English Composition I course at Delaware County Community College Archives
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