Category — Applications of Positive Psychology

For the fun of it, I took the Grit survey!  This survey measures the VIA character strength of perseverance.

Guess what my score was?

3 out of 5!  I scored as high or higher than 8 in 10 test takers grouped under age, gender, education and occupation!

What is yours?

This article is inspired by my experiential session on Laughter Yoga with Avi Liran.  Thanks to Avi’s highly entertaining and energetic session, I have a germ of an idea for my next talk in my free Positive Psychology series.  To date, I have been voted Best Speaker twice out of five speeches!  The two award-winning speeches to date are Tenacious tenacity!!! and Shan’s cockscrew of hope.

After googling for Laughter Yoga, I was in silent mirth when I read that laughing is a serious matter.  What an oxymoron!  Nevertheless, I do agree that laughing is serious, especially when I recall that tickling a person to induce excessive laughing is a form of torture.

Why Laughter Yoga, and not just plain laughing (if laughter could ever be plain)?  [Read more →]

My beloved friends,

Yesterday evening’s speech was an engaging appreciation of beauty and excellence! A winning quote from my talk yesterday,

“The appreciation of beauty and excellence is a human strength harnessed to transcend the normality of living.”

Definitely, B.E.A.U.T.Y. Be Excellent At Unique Things Your way!

In a series of ten talks, the fifth in my free Positive Psychology collection is entitled Shan’s cockscrew of hope. In this talk, cockscrew is defined as a series of loops experienced in a rollercoaster ride. What has the cockscrew got to do with me, hope and Positive Psychology? A triad of hope buffers will be suggested as well.

I invite you to the fifth of my Positive Psychology series tomorrow evening in Singapore. Details as follows:

• Topic: Shan’s cockscrew of hope
• Venue: Bukit Merah Toastmasters Club, Bukit Merah Community Club, Singapore
• Date: 23 April 2008
• Time: 7-10pm

I look forward to seeing you there!

With love,
Pei Shan

My beloved friends,

Following my unprecedented successes with my speeches entitled Shan’s 3 “B”s of happiness and Shanshine.com … Smile! Are you shining yet? , I won the Best Speaker award with Tenacious tenacity!!!

A big thank you to my wonderful audience and loved ones!

The fourth in my free Positive Psychology series is entitled The appreciation of beauty and excellence! What does it entail to appreciate beauty and excellence? Are you immersed and in a state of ‘flow’ when appreciating beauty and excellence? I will share my experience with appreciating beauty and excellence and three simple strategies to take home with you to ignite your inner artist.

I invite you to the fourth talk of my Positive Psychology series this evening in Singapore. Details as follows:

• Topic: The appreciation of beauty and excellence!
• Venue: Nee Soon South Toastmasters Club, Nee Soon South Community Club, Singapore
• Date: 21 April 2008
• Time: 7-10pm

I look forward to seeing you there!

With love,
Pei Shan

Blogs are now an increasingly simple and easy method of obtaining information up close and personal! That, indeed, makes me tingle with happiness!

On the theme of happiness, I had the privilege of being at the Simply Happy conference (with the compliments of John, Philip and Normala. Thank you!) organised in Singapore by Philip’s Global Leadership Academy. It was a conference with a mitochondria of knowledge-infused speakers! It was indeed a power-packed two days of sharing ideas and research in this field of Psychology.

It was an impressive start with Marty Seligman’s keynote speech on “Positive Psychology: The pursuit of happiness at work, at school, and at home”. [Read more →]