[小学教育]哈佛幸福课课件Yoga presentation for Psychology 1504 42408.ppt

Yoga for a Positive Psychology Deborah Cohen drc@ Yoga for a Positive Psychology Psychology 1504 April 24, 2008 Debbie Cohen Why yoga? Emily story Tool for well-being Conviction from experience Overview Common Objective of Positive Psychology and Yoga What is Yoga? How Yoga works to cultivate a positive psychology Yoga and Positive Psychology Yoga for you Happiness?? Happiness??? Common pursuit of Positive Psychology and of Yoga philosophy, teaching and practice Optimal state of human functioning??????? Aristotle- eudaimonia Abraham Maslow- being cognition vs. deficit-motivated cognition William James’ healthy-mindedness Martin Seligman’s optimistic explanatory style Mihalyi Csikszentimihalyi’s flow Barbara Frederickson’s Broaden and Build theory Optimal state of human functioning??????? George Vaillant- mature defense mechanisms. Sublimation and altruism vs. suppression and projection “I don’t want you to think less of yourself. I want you to think of yourself less.” “As fly higher, air cools Daedalus’ wings” (Positive Psychology conference, October, 2006) Tal Ben-Shahar- Permission to be human Daniel Gilbert- uselessness of stuck compass (Harvard Magazine, Jan/ Feb. 2007) Current Fascination Yoga’s perspective on happiness Yoga and Happiness Street lamp story Daniel Gilbert on affective forecasting bias (2002). Yoga and Happiness Taoist story of man and horse “Everything is as it is and it’s all the same” -Zayda Vallejo Yoga for a Positive PsychologyThe Mind “I’ve had many catastrophes in my life, some of which actually happened” -Mark Twain Yoga, Nothing New 25,000 BCE Shamanism 3,000-1,900 BCE Indus-Sarasvati Civilization, North India 8th-12th c. Hatha Yoga- cultivating the body What is Yoga? Yoga Sutra 2nd or 3rd c. CE YSI.2: Yogas citta vritti nirodhah: A technique to quiet the mind or “the restraint of the modification of the mind-stuff is yoga” (Satchidananda, 1999). YS I.12: Abhyasa and Viragya: prac