Posts tagged with 'savouring'
The 5 minute 'Health' read - Relationships: recent research (December)
20th December 2023
I read a fair amount of research and thought some people might be interested in recent studies that I've found helpful. I plan to write an approximately 1,200 word (5 minutes to read) blog post pretty much every week, highlighting helpful material that has emerged in the previous couple of …
Positive psychology and psychedelics: possible synergies
22nd June 2022
I gave a talk today about Positive Psychology and suggested a couple of areas where there could be helpful synergies with psychedelics. Here is the full downloadable talk and below are a few of the slides ... initially just below are the first three: I've written in the past about …
How to live well: 5th meeting - positivity, savouring & gratitude
2nd October 2018
"Ten thousand flowers in the spring; the moon in autumn; a cool breeze in summer; snow in winter. If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life." Wu-wen "Thus weave for us a garment of brightness; that we may walk fittingly where birds …
Deepening our enjoyment & appreciation of life
1st October 2018
A sense of meaning, connection to our values and real engagement in what we do are crucial to nourish high wellbeing in our lives … and then high wellbeing feeds back to help us be more vital & effective in what we do. But it’s important too to ‘smell the …
A day spent "idle & blessed": revisiting an experiment - savouring & "positive state mindfulness"
20th April 2013
Last September I went back to Cambridge for a reunion ... the first time I'd ever been back to school or university for such a thing. It was an experiment in "emotional archaeology" and I wrote a series of blog posts about it. At one stage I experimented with a …
A day spent "idle and blessed": report of an experiment
30th November 2012
In the words of Mary Oliver's beautiful poem "The summer day": Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean - the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of …
Mindfulness during daily activities: is it helpful to vary the proportions of the five facets?
11th October 2011
"If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life." Wu-men This is one of a series of blog posts triggered by attending a MBSR training - see for example the recent "Learning mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR): second evening of the course". A key …
Manchester BABCP conference: disagreeing with Jamie Pennebaker - writing can be used with positive experiences too (ninth post)
24th August 2010
Yesterday I wrote a post "Disagreeing with Jamie Pennebaker - writing can help past, present & future concerns". I ended it with the words "In tomorrow's post I'll argue that therapeutic writing (although not so much expressive writing) is also potentially beneficial when the focus is on positive experiences as …
Manchester BABCP conference: disagreeing with Jamie Pennebaker - writing can help past, present & future concerns (eighth post)
23rd August 2010
I've already written a couple of appreciative posts about Jamie Pennebaker's fascinating talk at the BABCP Manchester conference - one on "Expressive writing & emotional suppression" and another on "Expressive writing & timing issues". I'm now going to write a couple of posts disagreeing with points Jamie appeared to make …
The Ben Lui group (first post): the challenge of balancing planning & savouring
15th June 2009
Tomorrow I hope to head North and West up past Stirling, Lochearnhead and Crianlarich to Strath Fillan. I should be able to park at a little village called Dalrigh just before Tyndrum. From there I can walk in by the River Cononish for about 7 km to get to Ben …