This book is about savoring life—the capacity to attend to the joys, pleasures, and other positive feelings that we experience in our lives. The authors enhance our understanding of what savoring is and the conditions under which it occurs. Savoring provides a new theoretical model for conceptualizing and understanding the psychology of enjoyment and the processes through which people manage positive emotions. The authors review their quantitative research on savoring, as well as the research of others, and provide measurement instruments with scoring instructions for assessing and studying savoring. Authors Bryant and Veroff outline the necessary preconditions that must exist for savoring to occur and distinguish savoring from related concepts such as coping, pleasure, positive affect, emotional intelligence, flow, and meditation. The book’s lifespan perspective includes a conceptual analysis of the role of time in savoring. Savoring is also considered in relation to human concerns, such as love, friendship, physical and mental health, creativity, and spirituality. Strategies and hands-on exercises that people can use to enhance savoring in their lives are provided, along with a review of factors that enhance savoring. Savoring is intended for researchers, students, and practitioners interested in positive psychology from the fields of social, clinical, health, and personality psychology and related disciplines. The book may serve as a supplemental text in courses on positive psychology, emotion and motivation, and other related topics. The chapters on enhancing savoring will be especially attractive to clinicians and counselors interested in intervention strategies for positive psychological adjustment.

SAVORING LIFE FIND TRUE HAPPINESS BY LIVING IN THE PRESENT, MINDFULLY AND GRATEFULLY ABOUT THIS BOOK To understand why you should savor life, let’s first understand what it means to savor each moment. Savoring is a way of living that involves appreciating the good things in your life. It helps you focus on the positive in every situation and appreciate what you have instead of focusing on what you lack. Savoring makes us happier and more grateful. When we think about our past or future, we tend not to be as happy as when we manage to concentrate on the present moment. This is because when we are thinking about either past or future events, our brain cannot fully process them because they did not happen yet or have already happened, causing us anxiety and preventing us from accepting both good things (like having money) or bad things happening now (like losing a job). CONTENT Introduction What Is Savoring The Moment In Psychology? What Are The Three Levels Of Savoring Life? What Are The Benefits Of Learning How To Savor The Moment In Life? Why Savoring The Moment Helps You Deal With Sadness And Anxiety? Why Savoring The Moment Brings You Closer To Your Loved Ones? How To Focus On Details To Savor The Moment? How To Focus On Sensations To Savor The Moment? What Is The Negativity Bias? How To Focus On The Positive To Savor Life? Why Feeling Gratitude Can Also Improve Your Ability To Savor The Moment? How To Keep A Gratitude Journal? How To Create Mental Pictures To Savor Life? Why Pursue Your Hobbies To Savor Life? How Mindful Eating Can Help You Savor Life? How To Practice Mindful Eating? Why Share Your Feelings With Others To Savor The Moment? How Remembering How Quickly Time Flies Helps You Savor Life? How To Savor Life In Tough Times? What Is Dampening Positive Feelings? How To Use Savoring To Avoid Dampening Positive Feelings? Why Meditation Can Help You Savor The Present Moment? How To Savor The Past? How To Savor The Future? ABOUT THE SAPIENS NETWORK The content in this guide is based on extensive official research and comes from a variety of sources, mostly from books published by experts who have mastered each of the topics presented here and who are backed by internationally recognized careers. Therefore, the reader will be able to acquire a large amount of knowledge from more than one reliable and specialized source. This happens because we rely only on official and endorsed media. In addition, we also collect information from different web pages, courses, biographies, and interviews, so we give the reader a broad overview of their topics of interest. We have not only checked that the sources of knowledge are relevant, but we have also made a very careful selection of the final information that makes up this guide. With great practicality, we have compiled the most useful concepts and put them in a way that are easiest for the reader to learn. Our ultimate goal is to simplify all the ideas that they are fully understandable and so that the reader can enjoy a pleasant, practical, and simple reading. This is why we strive to provide only the key information from each expert. In this guide, the reader will not find redundancies or unnecessary or irrelevant content. Each chapter covers the essential and leaves out everything that could be deemed as extra or that does not add anything new to the selected concepts. Thus, the reader will be able to enjoy a text where they will easily find specialized information that comes exclusively from experts and that has been selected with the greatest effectiveness.

Positive psychology moves psychology from a medical model toward a strengths model to help clients shore up their strengths and thereby lead happier, more fulfilling lives. Positive Psychology Coaching: Putting the Science of Happiness to Work for Your Clients provides concrete language and interventions for integrating positive psychology techniques into any mental health practice.

Positive psychology advocates for nurturing, promoting, and directing our attention towards the positive aspects of ourselves to achieve happiness and well-being. This textbook is meticulously crafted to fulfil this objective by providing a comprehensive exploration of concepts, principles, and theories of positive psychology. Presented in an accessible and user-friendly manner, the book facilitates meaningful discussions on topics aligned with the prescribed syllabi of Indian universities offering undergraduate and postgraduate courses in positive psychology. Moreover, it addresses the longstanding need within the positive psychology community for a text that incorporates an Indian perspective, catering to the specific requirements of students and faculty. Beyond academia, the textbook serves as a valuable resource for counsellors, practitioners, and anyone interested in leveraging positive psychology for personal fulfilment and happiness. By offering both theoretical insights and practical applications, it equips readers with the tools to enhance their well-being and thrive in various aspects of life. KEY FEATURES • Comprehensive coverage of topics aligned with the syllabi of Positive psychology courses offered by most Indian universities and higher institutions, for both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. • Subject matter presented in a coherent and seamlessly synthesised manner, facilitating ease of understanding. • Adequately illustrated with examples, case studies, figures, tables, and boxed items to enhance comprehension and engagement. • Deliberate effort made to clarify terms and concepts within each chapter through concise explanations in boxed material. • Each chapter concludes with a summary for quick recapitulation of the topics covered, followed by a set of review questions and then ending with a list of references cited within the chapter. TARGET AUDIENCE • BA/B.Sc. Psychology • M.A./M.Sc. Psychology

This volume presents innovative and contemporary methodologies and intervention protocols for the enhancement of positive psychological attributes in multicultural professional and organizational contexts. Most methods, models and approaches that underpin positive psychological interventions are confined to clinical samples, closed systems or monocultural contexts, which restrict their applicability to particular contexts. Extensive practical intervention protocols, designs and methods which usually accompany first draft intervention papers are condensed into brief paragraphs in final manuscripts or removed in their entirety. This, in turn, reduces their potential for replicability or adoption by consumers, practitioners, or industry. This volume develops guidelines for enhancing positive psychological attributes, such as positive moods (e.g. positive affect; life satisfaction), strengths (e.g. gratitude; humour), cognitions (e.g. hope; optimism) and behaviours (e.g. emotional regulation; positive relationship building) within various multicultural contexts. Thereby, it shows how positive psychology interventions can be replicated to a wide-range of contexts beyond those in which they were developed.

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