Well-being is a stable, underlying feeling that includes contentment and perception of meaning with the life. It could be understood as being able to be well and accompany whatever happens to us, whether it is pleasant or not so pleasant.
“I understand well-being as a cross between moments of happiness, suffering and the inevitable adversities of life. I would like to break down this idea of well-being and analyze some variables that make it up: the satisfaction general with life, the balance between negative and positive affect, the type of adaptation to the environment that we have, our perception of self-efficacy, the mental and physical health that we possess, and also, the personal and community projects that we develop, explained Viviana Kelmanowicz, degree in Psychology and Psychopedagogy (MN 20,286).
The specialist added: “All the people on this planet tend to look for something: to be well or to be happy, with whatever that implies for each one of us. For many, happiness is a trite question, full of empty phrases and clichés. But putting it in that place makes it lose the depth and effort that goes into it. It leaves us in a passive place of ‘I hope it comes to me’ when the reality is that we are main actors in construction of our own happiness.”
Meanwhile, he said that the first thing we have to know is that welfare it does not exclude a certain measure of emotional discomfort and difficulties. In the collective imagination, happiness is associated with pleasures, occasional joy, and especially with very intense moments of this. But, happiness is more than just that. Well-being will always include crises and pain.
Grow and build
Wellbeing design is about cultivate and build in an accessible way with microhappiness in daily life and thus impact community and social macrohappiness, in a bidirectional and virtuous dance.
«The positive psychology It is a vast scientific body dedicated to studying the good life. It involves including the search for well-being in a systematic and conscious way and, above all, guiding attention to the elements of our experiences that favor being well. In addition, there is an idea in the imagination that #PositivePsychology implies being all the time thinking positive thoughts or in a good mood, or avoiding conflict and nothing is further from reality,» said Kelmanowicz, who is also a psychotherapist and professor in the field. of psychology from the University of Belgrano.
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Positive psychology is a scientific study with almost 30 years of development that is dedicated to investigating different experiences, individual traits, institutions and programs that help improve the quality of life of individuals. Include positive psychology in the clinic or daily life It is not an easy task. However, it is not complex at all if it is systematized and done consciously.
Why it is good to introduce positive psychology into our lives
There are two possible and complementary answers, according to the specialist:
- to gradually transform our communities in order to live more cooperatively, supportively and empathetically
- to find that which puts us in axis, that allows us to look at ourselves with glasses that we do not usually use, those that make us discover in ourselves and in others our strengthsresources and possibilities.
The 7 tips that can help your well-being
To start drawing a personal map of well-being, some of the tips are:
- Express gratitude.
- Practice kindness and acts of kindness.
- Increase flow experiences, practice spirituality, wonder and curiosity.
- Take care of your body and lifestyle.
- Learn to be assertive.
- Overcome misunderstandings.
- Learn to create experiences of sacred silences.