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Rob Kall: Anatomy of Positive Experience: Brief Outline This is a minimal outline of the model I have developed since 1984 based on the belief that positive experiences are our most valued personal assets and inner resources, so skills in having positive experiences are the key ability. This anatomy of positive experiences breaks down positive experiences temporally, to identify skill aspects that can be developed.
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Rob Kall: Expand Your Happiness and Pleasure Vocabulary: OMG? How Do YOU Say Something, Some Experience is Amazing, Awesome? There are words, like those I used in the title-- Amazing, Awesome, Incredible -- but there are a lot more great words, and then... there are personal utterances-- and actions and movements. What do you do? What examples from movies or video are really great?
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Rob Kall: Visions of a Positive Future vs Fixing a Pathological Present it is not enough to resist the system and the problems that exist. It is absolutely inadequate to aim for repairing the symptoms of what is broken. We need big, positive visions which lift our sights higher, towards horizons where there are bright futures, not scotch tape and bubblegum fixes for the pathological system we currently inhabit.
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Rob Kall: Goose Walk in Single File; A moment to Spontaneously Pause I went out to my car this morning and, as I looked behind me to pull out, this is what I saw. You can see a bit of my car in the bottom left of the photo. There was this long single-file row of Canadian geese and goslings.
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Rob Kall: Turning Chaos Into Opportunity; Facing Adversity, Problems and Flaws An excerpt from my book, the Happiness Response. adversity is programmed into life--it's part of growing up, of parenting, of aging and dying. For example, when young children die, their parents suffer great pain, desolation and anguish. But the human mind and spirit have the strength to recover from tremendous devastation. We are biologically and spiritually endowed with resources unknown to us until we need them.
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Rob Kall: Positive Psychology-- Promising a Better Humanity Positive Psychology aims to explore the positive aspects of being human-- happiness, well-being, compassion, awe, kindness, love, civility-- and it uses some languaging, like savoring, elevation, broaden and build, eudaemonia.
Roy Eidelson, Marc Pilisuk, And Stephen Soldz: The Dark Side of "Comprehensive Soldier Fitness" Why is the world's largest organization of psychologists so aggressively promoting a new, massive, and untested military program? The APA's enthusiasm for mandatory "resilience training" for all U.S. soldiers is troubling on many counts.
Rob Kall: On Being Brave, Having Courage Today, a researcher interviewed me. He was looking for people who thought they were brave. Well, in some ways, I've considered myself to be a coward, but then, others have told me I have big cojones, so I volunteered. It was an interesting conversation that got me thinking more about bravery and courage.
Rob Kall: The Art and Science of Smiling Originally Published on OpEdNewsExplores smile anatomy, pumping smile iron, smile psychomotor retardation-- Self awareness and control techniques can be used to train individuals to increase awareness and voluntary control of their emotional states, facilitating positive feelings, attitudes and expectancies. Our muscles not only move us through our world, they also mediate our experiencing of it.
Rob Kall: Quotations By Thoreau on Finding the Best Within Ourselves and Living It Originally Published on OpEdNewsWhen it comes to peak performance and finding the best in one's self, Thoreau was an unmitigated genius. Here is a large collection of quotations. For example, from his journal, "We live but a fraction of our life." It is extraordinary that one person could tap such a deep spring of wisdom and bring it to the surface for us all to process and be inspired by it.
Rob Kall: Book Review The LAST LECTURE by Randy Pausch The first and only book that made me cry through half the chapters. Randy Pausch is dying of cancer. As is traditional at many universities, he gave a "last lecture" which is usually given by elder, retiring professors. But Pausch's last lecture because an internet youtube phenomenon. And now, after a book he did is out, it is a huge, runaway bestseller, so hot, they literally can't keep the books in stock in bookstores.
Rob Kall: Taking Play Seriously; For Kids AND Adults Originally Published on OpEdNews...the biological and spiritual underpinnings of play. ...Play is part of the ‘‘developmental sequencing of becoming a human primate. If you look at what produces learning and memory and well-being, play is as fundamental as any other aspect of life, including sleep and dreams.’’ This is a long article. Consider selecting the single page view or print friendly.
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Rob Kall: Tools for Warming the Heart-- and Having a Happier Holiday this has zero to do with politics... It's some wisdom I've gleaned from the Positive Psychology hat I've worn the past 25 years
Rob Kall: McClatchy Washington Bureau | 11/24/2007 | The new key question: How happy are you? Originally Published on OpEdNewsnew kind of public attitude polling gaining influence with corporate leaders and in government policy circles worldwide, called well-being research or, by those wishing to be seen as especially rigorous practitioners, behavioral economics. Others call it happiness research. Its pioneers intend that quantified self-assessments of satisfaction will someday be as powerful as the gross domestic pr...
Rob Kall: Getting Serious About Happiness Originally Published on OpEdNewsMihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a leading expert on well-being, is establishing what he calls the world's first Ph.D program focusing on positive psychology and the analysis of happiness, at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, Calif.
Rob Kall: Poll: Nation's Lowest Happiness ratings in 20 years. Originally Published on OpEdNewsLowest happiness ratings in 20 years. Newspaper Readership Down Ten Percent to under 35% of Public Check the slide show in this article for stats.
Rob Kall: Women's Orgasms from Anywhere Originally Published on OpEdNewsMRI Brain studies show there are four kinds of orgasm for women and they can be stimulate by almost any part of the body.
Rob Kall: Politics and Positive Psychology; Reconciling and Integrating Them For 20+ years, I've been involved with the world of Positive Psychology-- before it even had a name. The other day, a reader, who checked out my positive psych website, asked how I reconciled my political work and punditry with my positive psychology work. This is a stab at starting to explain.
Rob Kall: Choosing: Courage or Fear, Heroes or Traitors We live in times when stark choices confront us. There are those who would have us live our lives based on fear, based on loyalty to "things" and entities that do not serve humanity, that do not serve a positive future. But the other choice is a vision of a glowing, positive, hopeful tomorrow that brings light, peace, growth, cooperation and blessings to humanity. There are threads of that vision out there.
Rob Kall: First Ever World Map of Happiness Produced Originally Published on OpEdNewsa nation's level of happiness was most closely associated with health levels (correlation of .62), followed by wealth (.52), and then provision of education (.51). Note that right wingers only support the wealth of less than 10% of the population. Maybe that's why the US didn't make the top 20 nations.
Rob Kall: The science of happiness Originally Published on OpEdNewsand test your happiness with this short, easy test.

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