Marty Seligman's new site

A big part of the recent surge in interest in the brain has to do with how a few lifestyle and attitude adjustments can lead to lasting happiness. Marty Seligman, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and a pioneer in the positive psychology movement has launched Reflective Happiness, a web site of coaching, activities and other ways trying to make your days a little brighter.

While I wonder which side’s will prove more successful, the psychologists or the meditation practitioners, there’s certainly somewhere to turn to match your preferences.

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Marty Seligman Launches a New Website featured in the cover story of TIME
www.reflectivehappiness.com

Martin E.P. Seligman
February 7, 2005

Progress has been fast and furious in Positive Psychology and Authentic Happiness. TIME magazine, as you know, did a 46 page issue on all that is developing. The most positive new finding is that there are now exercises that you can do that clearly will raise your level of happiness. My problem has been to find a way to keep those of you who are registered on the authentichappiness.org website as well as the general public abreast of all these new developments.

So I want the general public, your clients, and you to have inexpensive access to the scientifically documented exercises that increase happiness. For this purpose, I have opened a new website in collaboration with Reflective Learning, a company co-founded by Jeffrey Levy, MD, previously the Medical Director for Education and Technology Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania Health System. There is now compelling evidence, both clinical and laboratory, that a variety of Positive Interventions lastingly increase happiness and decrease depression.

My research team at the Positive Psychology Center continues to create these interventions and to document their effectiveness. To give you access to these new developments, reflectivehappiness.com will provide you with one new intervention each month.

In addition to a monthly happiness intervention, each month subscribers will get

• A newsletter from me about the latest developments in Positive Psychology and how they apply to raising your level of well being
  
• A book club about Positive Psychology in which I will recommend one work of social science and one work of fiction
  
• A Q&A internet exchange in which I will answer questions from subscribers
  
• A Positive Psychology Chat room, always open
  
• The latest tests and questionnaires for measuring well being
  

My vision is to create a community of people dedicated to changing their own lives and helping others to do so by building more pleasure, more engagement, and more meaning. This is not about fairy tales or false promises. It is a science based endeavor committed to providing effective programs to build happiness in children and adults.