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A workbook to help you appreciate and get the most out of your life. Published February 2010.

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I have devoted this section to providing you with information that is aimed at enhancing your psychological health and wellbeing. I cover a variety of subjects and provide you with many tips and ideas you can use in your own life. By sharing this information with you, I hope it will empower and enhance your life in some way.

 

In my articles, ezine and blog, I try to provide you with informative material as well as tips and ideas that you can use in your own life. Of course, not all that you read will be relevant to you. As such, they should be regarded as general guides only.

 

I also recommend books that I think will be of interest to you. Such books promote happiness and welbeing.

Remember, if you need additional assistance, help or support, counselling is available to you.

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Having a flow experience can boost happiness levels. You are actively involved in a task that is challenging (but achievable) and goal-oriented. Afterwards you feel great. New research suggests that you can feel even better afterwards if you carry out your task with other people. A survey and two experiments conducted by Walker of Bonaventure University in the US supports this idea. The survey had people describe examples of flow and rate their levels of joy. Those experiences that involved others were rated as being more joyful than those carried out alone. The first experiment involved participants carrying out a paddleball game either with another or alone. Again, participants reported greater joy when they had carried out the task with another. The final experiment had participants play a ball game that either required greater interdependence with their team or none at all. The higher interdependent people later gave higher joy ratings.

 

It would be interesting to see if personality would make a difference. Introverts enjoy time alone and so may achieve greater flow fromn solitary acitivites, compared to extraverts who like spending time with others. Extraverts are in the majority, so could easily have impacted on these findings.

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