Practical Barriers and What are Positive Psychology Interventions?

You can focus on supporting yourself, practical barriers to supporting our wellbeing and boosting happiness. We wish we had a magic ball, don’t we? What is it? What’s the secret? We don’t know where to start. We’re not sure what works. There are all these gurus out there telling us what worked for them, and we feel overwhelmed with options. You don’t know what you need, you just know how you feel. You don’t have the time to think, “I’d love to support my wellbeing, but how am I going to slot it into my day?” Or you just feel out of touch with what supports you. So let’s work through some of those in the next twenty minutes. And let’s start with this. This is why positive psychology interventions are amazing. They are evidence-based practices, like little exercises, that work with how we think and feel. In simple terms, there are things you can do that influence how you think, feel, and act. There is an interplay between them all. We can work with how we think, and that influences how we feel and what we do. We can also work with how we feel, and that influences how we think and what we do. These practices have been studied repeatedly by researchers and shown time and time again to increase momentary happiness. When they are practiced over time, they support wellbeing. This takes out all of the guesswork. We can turn to these positive psychology interventions and pick the ones that work for us, and that’s key. To pick the ones that work for you, you need to know what you need and what your capacity is, depending on the practice. I’ll talk you through this. You can use them as tools. There might be something you do once a month, or something you do repeatedly throughout the day. The nice thing is to have a repertoire of things you do. Often there are things you do once a day and things you do a little less often. The key thing here is to add to what already works for you. A big principle of positive psychology is that instead of assuming everyone is starting from scratch, we know that people already have things in their toolbox that work for them. We want to make sure that you build on those before you add in new things.