Achieve Your Potential with Positive Psychology: CBT, mindfulness and practical philosophy for finding lasting happiness

Everybody wants to be happier and fulfil their potential, and for years many self-help books have claimed they know the answer. Only in the last two decades has Positive Psychology started to provide evidence-based ideas that have been scientifically shown to work.

In this book psychotherapist, lecturer and life coach Tim LeBon shows you how you can use the tools of Positive Psychology to achieve your goals. You will discover how ideas from CBT, mindfulness and practical philosophy can produce a more balanced, wiser version of Positive Psychology.

Learn how to:

* flourish and be happier

* maintain and sustain positive relationships

* find more meaning in life and accomplish more

* become wiser and more resilient

* discover the real benefits that a genuine understanding of positive psychology can bring.


"This book has a wealth of information and fascinating case studies which will take you on a fulfilling journey through the relatively new perspective of positive psychology. Tim LeBon does not leave you to fend alone but encourages us to take responsibility for ourselves through guided action plans, diagnostic tests and key ideas leading to newer and fresher outlooks. I would encourage anyone interested in positive psychology to soak this book up and take a step towards a better life."
Ilona Boniwell, Associate Professor at Ecole Centrale Paris and author of Positive Psychology in a Nutshell

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Achieve Your Potential with Positive Psychology: CBT, mindfulness and practical philosophy for finding lasting happiness

Everybody wants to be happier and fulfil their potential, and for years many self-help books have claimed they know the answer. Only in the last two decades has Positive Psychology started to provide evidence-based ideas that have been scientifically shown to work.

In this book psychotherapist, lecturer and life coach Tim LeBon shows you how you can use the tools of Positive Psychology to achieve your goals. You will discover how ideas from CBT, mindfulness and practical philosophy can produce a more balanced, wiser version of Positive Psychology.

Learn how to:

* flourish and be happier

* maintain and sustain positive relationships

* find more meaning in life and accomplish more

* become wiser and more resilient

* discover the real benefits that a genuine understanding of positive psychology can bring.


"This book has a wealth of information and fascinating case studies which will take you on a fulfilling journey through the relatively new perspective of positive psychology. Tim LeBon does not leave you to fend alone but encourages us to take responsibility for ourselves through guided action plans, diagnostic tests and key ideas leading to newer and fresher outlooks. I would encourage anyone interested in positive psychology to soak this book up and take a step towards a better life."
Ilona Boniwell, Associate Professor at Ecole Centrale Paris and author of Positive Psychology in a Nutshell

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Achieve Your Potential with Positive Psychology: CBT, mindfulness and practical philosophy for finding lasting happiness

Achieve Your Potential with Positive Psychology: CBT, mindfulness and practical philosophy for finding lasting happiness

by Tim LeBon
Achieve Your Potential with Positive Psychology: CBT, mindfulness and practical philosophy for finding lasting happiness

Achieve Your Potential with Positive Psychology: CBT, mindfulness and practical philosophy for finding lasting happiness

by Tim LeBon

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Everybody wants to be happier and fulfil their potential, and for years many self-help books have claimed they know the answer. Only in the last two decades has Positive Psychology started to provide evidence-based ideas that have been scientifically shown to work.

In this book psychotherapist, lecturer and life coach Tim LeBon shows you how you can use the tools of Positive Psychology to achieve your goals. You will discover how ideas from CBT, mindfulness and practical philosophy can produce a more balanced, wiser version of Positive Psychology.

Learn how to:

* flourish and be happier

* maintain and sustain positive relationships

* find more meaning in life and accomplish more

* become wiser and more resilient

* discover the real benefits that a genuine understanding of positive psychology can bring.


"This book has a wealth of information and fascinating case studies which will take you on a fulfilling journey through the relatively new perspective of positive psychology. Tim LeBon does not leave you to fend alone but encourages us to take responsibility for ourselves through guided action plans, diagnostic tests and key ideas leading to newer and fresher outlooks. I would encourage anyone interested in positive psychology to soak this book up and take a step towards a better life."
Ilona Boniwell, Associate Professor at Ecole Centrale Paris and author of Positive Psychology in a Nutshell


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Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781444190991
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd.
Publication date: 06/27/2014
Sold by: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format: eBook
File size: 16 MB
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About the Author

Tim LeBon is a psychotherapist in the NHS and private practice and a lecturer and life coach. He has many years experience in teaching courses in Positive Psychology and putting them into practice in his work with clients.

Table of Contents

Introduction xi

How do you create a science of well-being?

Positive psychology's progress

About this book

1 Happiness and positive emotions 1

What is happiness?

How can happiness be measured?

Why is happiness important?

The broaden-and-build theory

Activity scheduling and behavioural activation

The 3:1 positivity ratio - a cautionary tale?

Could too much happiness be a bad thing?

2 What makes people happier? 19

Is happiness all in your genes?

How important are life circumstances?

National differences in happiness

Hedonic adaptation and the hedonic treadmill

Can positive psychology make people lastingly happier?

Is it possible to say how much of our happiness can be attributed to different factors?

3 Values, well-being and flourishing 35

Are positive emotions all there is to well-being?

The rote of ethical philosophy

Philosophical theories about well-being

Flourishing: objective list theories of well-being

Which theory of well-being is best?

4 Strengths 57

Why strengths?

What are your strengths?

Evidence that a strengths-based approach is beneficial

Are you the best judge of your strengths and weaknesses?

Should you be using your strengths more often or more wisely?

Which strengths should you use?

Which of the three inventories should you use?

5 Accomplishment and achievement 77

Is accomplishment due to nature or nurture?

How positive psychology can help you achieve more

The darker side of achievement

6 Meaning and purpose 97

The pioneering work of Viktor Frankl

Measuring meaning and purpose

The benefits of meaning and purpose

Is the search for meaning a good idea?

Is it true that 'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger'?

The four ingredients of a meaningful life - WIST

Step-by-step planning to increase meaning and purpose

7 Flow 117

What is flow and why is it important?

The eight most important characteristics of flow

The sources of flow

How to increase flow

Microflow

The benefits of flow

Flow and psychotherapy

Limitations and dangers of flow

8 Relationships 135

What are the ingredients of a successful intimate relationship?

Empirically validated findings on how to improve relationships

How positive psychology can bolster Gottman's principles

Active and constructive responding

Friendships and positive work relationships

9 Managing difficulties: resilience and CBT 153

Resilience

Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)

Thinking traps

What to do about realistic negative thoughts

Changing your behaviour

Problem solving

The body and resilience

Other ways to help you be more resilient

Real-time resilience

Problem-specific CBT

10 Emotional intelligence, meditation and mindfulness 187

What is emotional intelligence?

Why is emotional intelligence important?

How to become more emotionally intelligent

Our evolved brains

What is mindfulness?

Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)

Meditation

11 Wisdom 205

What is wisdom?

Psychological theories of wisdom

Do you get wiser as you get older?

The wisdom in positive psychology

The need for practical wisdom

The potential contribution of philosophy

12 Positive psychology in practice 227

Positive psychology self-help

Positive psychology coaching and psychotherapy

Positive CBT

Positive psychology in education

Positive psychology in the workplace

Appendix A The thoughts and behaviours log 241

Appendix B The positive psychology toolkit 247

Further reading 249

Recommended websites 261

Endnotes 263

Index 273

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