- A willingness to experience unpleasant internal stuff (thoughts, memories, urges, emotions etc) in the service of doing what is important (the opposite of this is called experiential avoidance) and having the skills to not getting hooked by those experiences – Just letting them play in the background rather than focussing energy on them.
- Psychological flexibility – having a range of possible responses to a situation and being able to choose your response rather than doing the same thing over and over again.
Suggestions about building well-being based on current research in psychology, coaching and personal development
Monday, July 5, 2010
Psychological Health
Recent work in the area of psychological health suggests that 2 things are key to psychological health