幸福课课件-03-beliefs.ppt

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Correcting the False Schema: News Correcting the False Schema: Art Jan Vermeer Correcting the False Schema: Art Ludwig van Beethoven Correcting the False Schema: Art Correcting the False Schema: Art David Knowles Sandra J. Shaw Correcting the False Schema: Studies Adaptation We are change detectors Change detection helpful in case of danger Adaptation helps to overcome difficulties Taking things for granted Eating the cake and leaving it whole? Must something external and extraordinary happen before we learn to appreciate the ordinary? Learning to be Grateful “You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing, and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.” “Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man.” G. K. Chesterton “Why not start by surveying a typical day? What is it you tend to tackle with spontaneous mindfulness, so that without an effort your whole heart is in it? Maybe it’s that first cup of coffee in the morning, the way it warms you and wakes you up, or taking your dog for a walk, or giving a little child a piggyback ride [It is] a matter of practice, of doing it over and over again, till it becomes second nature.” “Gratefulness is the measure of our aliveness. Are we not dead to whatever we take for granted? Surely to be numb is to be dead.” Research on Gratitude Emmons and McCullough (2002) Four groups: gratitude, hassles, superior, control Psychological and health benefits Physiological benefits (McCraty Childre 2004) Benefits of trait gratefulness Maintaining freshness Weekly? (Lyubomirsky, 2008) Variety Minfulness (Langer, 1989