The Flourishing Center

EPISODE 81: Annemarie Brogan- Practitioner Profile

Practitioner Profiler (PP)- Welcome to our Positive Psychology Practitioner Profiler, where we highlight ordinary people doing extraordinary things! Each practitioner is one of our graduates of the Certificate in Positive Psychology Program. Please find out the exciting ways people are putting the science into practice within their Communities, Organizations and Lives.

In this episode, Emiliya Zhivotovskaya, CEO & Founder, The Flourishing Center, highlights Annmarie Brogan, professional organizer, certified life coach and resilience trainer.

As an Applied Positive Psychology Practitioner, she brings the science and evidence-based resources of positive psychology to her work as a professional organizer, certified life coach and resilience trainer. But before all that, I worked in Corporate America.

She is the co-author of Beyond Tidy: Declutter Your Mind and Discover the Magic of Organized Living, from Skyhorse Publishing, merges her top 8 organizing principles with the science of positive psychology. Each principle saves you time, money, space and energy, giving you more to spend on family and activities you love!

Listen in and discover how Annmarie is integrating Positive Psychology into her life.

You can reach Annmarie Brogan at

https://organizemeny.com

www.annmariebrogan.com.

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EPISODE 71: UNITY MINDSET TO SHIFT ENVY AND JEALOUSY

Flourishing Friday (FF)-Welcome to Flourishing Fridays (FF), where every Friday we bring you a Positive Psychology-based life hack that will help you to flourish. In these episodes we look at real life application of Positive Psychology, while giving you tips and strategies to put Positive Psychology into use in all areas of your life.

What if we rejoiced in each other’s success, triumphs, gifts, beauty as much as our own. Wouldn’t we ask “what’s good”? What are you celebrating? Thinking and saying “That’s amazing!”

Compersion not comparison. Wikipedia defines it as “an empathetic state of happiness and joy experienced when another individual experiences happiness and joy.” Started off as a term used in the polyamory comparison. Opposite of jealousy and envy. Importance of savouring what’s good with others.

Jealousy is the fear that someone is going to take what you have. Envy is the desire for what other people have. Both feelings come from a scarcity mindset.

This word exists in other languages. “Mudita,” in Sanskrit, means “the pleasure that comes from delighting in other people’s well-being.” “Unne,” in Norwegian means “to be happy on someone else’s behalf.”

A pre-requisite for compersion is an abundance mindset and a unity mindset.

Someone else winning doesn’t mean we have to lose.

Emiliya shows us the exciting concept of Unity and benefits of experiences happiness and joy for others. It is powerful to hold the mindset that we are connected to human beings and we are all one. It is this mindset that can shift our way of being. This shift in mindset from envy and jealousy to compersion can allow for a feeling of experiences happiness and joy. In positive psychology this idea is called active constructive responding. It is about getting excited and happy for others when they are celebrating! Asking for more positive moments and sharing good news is a form of savouring.

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EPISODE 69: BREATHE TO ENHANCE WELL-BEING

Flourishing Friday (FF)-Welcome to Flourishing Fridays (FF), where every Friday we bring you a Positive Psychology-based life hack that will help you to flourish. In these episodes we look at real life application of Positive Psychology, while giving you tips and strategies to put Positive Psychology into use in all areas of your life.

Your body breathes on autopilot—so why worry about how to inhale and exhale? Scientific research is showing that mindful breathing, paying attention to your breath and learning how to manipulate it, is one of the most effective ways to lower everyday stress levels and improve your well-being. Despite the inherently automatic nature of breathing, most people can really benefit from taking control of our breathing. There is a very direct relationship between breath rate, mood state, and autonomic nervous system state. Listen in to Emiliya teaches us how we can use breath control to self-regulate.

In this episode she also talks about Heart rate variability as a new way to enhance your well-being. HRV is simply a measure of the variation in time between each heartbeat. This variation is controlled by a primitive part of the nervous system called the autonomic nervous system. It works regardless of our desire and regulates, among other things, our heart rate, blood pressure, breathing, and digestion. People who have a high HRV may have greater cardiovascular fitness and be more resilient to stress. Overall breathing appears to play an important role in the positive effect of heart rate variability. Paced breathing has been shown to enhance HRV.

Consciously use your breathing patterns to take charge of your health and well-being.

You can calm with with your breath or energize with your breath:

Calming Breath: INHALE FOR THREE EXHALE FOR SIX COUNTS

Energizing Breath: INHALE FOR SIX COUNTS EXHALE FOR THREE COUNTS

Increase Heart Rate Variability: SLOW DOWN OVERALL BREATH INHALE FOR SIX COUNTS AND OUT FOR SIX COUNTS

Make Breathing a conscious tool that you can use daily.

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EPISODE 66: A BRIGHTER PURPOSE

Practitioner Profiler (PP)- Welcome to our Positive Psychology Practitioner Profiler where we highlight ordinary people that are doing extra ordinary things! Each practitioner is one of our graduates of the CertifIcate in Positive Psychology Program. Find out the exciting ways people are putting the science into practice within their Communities, Organizations and Lives.

In this episode, Emiliya Zhivotovskaya CEO & Founder, The Flourishing Center highlights Kelly Miller, the creator of a Brighter Purpose. A Brighter Purpose was ignited to create a movement of humans moving toward flourishing lives. After the loss of a dear family member, Kelly Miller has made it her mission to help as many as she can to understand how malleable we are as humans, and how powerful our minds can be. With more people thriving with the benefits of accurate, intentional, and resilient thinking, the better our world will become.

Kelly teaches people about the science of Positive Psychology, which is the study of optimal human functioning. It aims to discover and promote the factors that allow individuals and communities to thrive. Positive psychology is about helping people move “north of neutral” (Seligman, 2002). It is about building what is right, not just fixing what is wrong. Practitioners of positive psychology live approach based lives (Peterson, 2003).

Kelly shares her personal experience with her daughters anxiety. “When I witnessed my daughter’s first panic attack (over a pair of pants), I really didn’t know what to do. She was very obviously in pain. My mothering skills were simply not enough to help her and it was agonizing for both of us.” This is why she created the book, Jane’s Worry Elephant. She created it so that other parents know what science has shown can help children. So that other kids experiencing anxiety can have some tools of their own. Anxiety is painful. She wants to help ease the pain, and to let other families know that they are not alone.

Listen how Kelly uses Positive Psychology copings skills to make changes in the world. Her go to positive psychology tool as a mother is the 54321 technique. Which is where you acknowledge: 5 things around you, 4 things you can touch, 3 things you hear, 2 things you can smell, 1 thing you can taste. Worry Box is another tool that helps open up conversation and allows worry to be placed on the box.

You can reach Kelly Miller: https://abrighterpurposecoach.com

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Flourishing Friday (FF) Welcome to Flourishing Fridays (FF), where every Friday we bring you a Positive Psychology-based life hack that will help you flourish. In these episodes, we look at the real-life application of Positive Psychology while giving you tips and strategies to put Positive Psychology into use in all areas of your life.

In this episode Emiliya addresses a question submitted by one of our Certificate in Applied Positive Psychology (CAPP) students about how affirmations work. Affirmations are positive statements that individuals repeat to themselves to rewire their thought patterns and beliefs and that ultimately lead to behavior change.

Listen to this episode as Emiliya tackles how affirmations work and the role of attention bias in their effectiveness.

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