PSY 459 Generation 24: 5/1/06

PSY 459 Generation 24: 5/1/06

Optimism and Happiness

By Sheena Haberlin

7.7 The Power of Affective Positivity: The Positive Bias Glow

Dr. Leon James, Textbook of Theistic Psychology, published on the web at http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy24/459-g24-lecture-notes.htm

Instructor: Dr. Leon James

1. Power of being Positive.

A. Optimism is key to being confident and leading a healthy life-style. According to Swedenborg, negative events cannot occur in the heavens of people’s minds. Negative concerns cannot impinge upon a person who is in the heaven of their mind. Positive thoughts and feelings come from angels that communicate with our spiritual bodies.

B. Love is impossible in the hell of people’s minds. However, there are people who get pleasure from being in the hells of their minds. They enjoy being hurt and hurting others. Those who are pessimists are competing with positive feelings.

C. Mood Swings and Tempers.

I. Theistic psychology explains this as a way for God to connect, disconnect, and reconnect spiritual societies from moment to moment. This is a way for God to give us temptations to resist in order to accomplish our regeneration of our characters. This is our chance as humans to proves that we have heavenly loves that overpower our hellish loves.

This site shows statistics on the effect of laughter on immunity and recovery from illness. It is perceived as a healing technique for illness by the Indiana State University School of Nursing. Stress is a great factor of infusing illness, therefore laughter is a stress reliever and is recommended to help rid illness.

2. http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/2001/09/09/stories/1309136e.htm

This online article focuses on mental attitude and its relation to well-being and health. They acknowledge that it may be difficult for different personality types but not impossible.

3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mood_swing

This is the encyclopedic definition of “mood swing”. This site gives you access to discussions on the topic. This implies however that mood swings are associated with mood disorders rather than spiritual encounters.

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