focus on 'good life'

• what is one primary focus of the positive approach?

  the good life (I.e. factors which contribute to well-liked life)
• where does happiness come from?

  pursuing positive emotions & doing activities that positively absorb & engage us
• what do we have to do to achieve a good life?

  develop strengths & virtues (knowledge, courage, spirituality, love)
• what are strengths & virtues a natural route to?

  gratification & helping us function in times of difficulty
• what does mindfulness aim to enhance?

  person's positive characteristics (spirituality)
• what does a person's positive characteristics encourage?

  the individual to develop core strengths & virtues (gratitude, flexibility, optimism)
• what does the development of positive characteristics lead to?

  greater well-being & essentially, the good life