This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1934.

What is flourishing?

Learn how to walk the five-part path to happiness by Kylie Lasard of a blue sky mind.com.

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What is flourishing? Learn how to walk the five-part path to happiness by Kylie Lasard of a blue sky mind.com.

Surely one of the most influential points on my positive psych journey has been the reading of

Flourish written by Dr. Martin Salligman. Salligman is an accomplished American psychologist,

best known as a founder of modern positive psychology. Once the president of the American

Psychological Association, during which he heavily promoted the emerging scientific field of

positive psychology, he now serves as the director for the University of Pennsylvania

Master of Applied Positive Psychology Program, as well as the director of the UPEN Positive

Psychology Center. This book, one of over 30, he's penned, is dense with information,

but approachable in form. At the risk of overload, I'll focus on just what has come to be the most

salient part of the book for me, which are his five components of well-being. These concepts

have become so central to my happiness, I quite literally seek to structure my daily life around them.

I use these concepts to either reach or maintain a state of flourishing, rather than to pull myself

out of a mental health hole, while their concepts are helpful for staying away from depressive or

anxious thoughts they are most effective when applied to a neutral or already positive state of mind.

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