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Positive Psychology

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The health experts at Harvard Medical School are proud to announce the creation of Positive Psychology. This unique online course reveals easy-to-apply tools designed to help you enjoy enduring happiness—not just fleeting emotional highs, but a deeper long-term satisfaction and contentment.These same tools not only make a difference in your emotional well-being, but they can have a powerful impact on your physical health! Research is proving that positive emotions can help lower stress levels, and by lowering stress levels over the years, you can help reduce heart attack, stroke, and other serious conditions.

Step-by-step, this powerful online course delivers a variety of research-proven techniques and shows you exactly how to put them into practice.

Syllabus

  • GETTING STARTED
    • Getting Started
    • About This Course
    • Satisfaction, Fulfillment, and Happiness
  • WHY WE CRAVE CONTENTMENT
    • Are You Happy?
    • The Roots of Positive Psychology
    • How to Get Happy
    • Quiz
  • VIRTUES, INNER STRENGTHS, AND MINDFULNESS
    • Calling on Your Strengths and Virtues
    • Your Inner Strengths
    • Mindfulness
    • Quiz
  • STRATEGIES FOR FINDING HAPPINESS
    • How to Lead a More Fulfilling Life
    • Gratitude
    • Savoring Pleasure
    • Flow
    • Positive Relationship-Building
    • Happiness Strategies
    • Self-Compassion
    • Quiz
  • KEY TAKEAWAYS
    • Parting Thoughts
    • Your Life's Meaning
    • Going Forward
    • Course Review

Taught by

Dr. Ronald D. Siegel and Mallika Marshall, MD

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