Positive Psychology Podcasts

When you experience negative emotions, it takes at least three positive experiences to counteract the feeling. If one doesn't take charge of one's own happiness, it won't happen, especially if you are hard wired for misery. The podcast today said that journaling, even bad experiences, increases ability to cope. But my point today is that you can experience positive experiences many times by 1) writing it, 2) telling other people about it, and reading what you wrote.

Also today some scientist was talking about self-control. He postulated that any exercise in self-control increases self-control in other areas.

For Teacher Appreciation Week, one of the gifts I received in a cutesy little party bag, was a chocolate bar. I didn't eat it. It has been sitting in my cupboard for about a week now, a visual reminder that having self control IS an option. The school setting has multiple land mines in every direction, donuts, tootsie rolls, cookies, M & M's (I took the whole bucket to my office) I think I might make a collection of the things I choose not to eat.