Positive psychology is the science of strengths and virtues that enable individuals and societies to thrive. The field is found on the belief that people want to lead a meaningful fulfilling life, to cultivate what is best within themselves and to enhance their experiences of work, love and play.

Positive psychology has developed in two major interdependent directions focusing on  positive health and achieving positive education in various social and institutional contexts  of development such as family, school and community. Seligman  suggested  there  are three  pillars of positive psychology such as positive  emotions,  positive  individual characteristics and positive institutions. Positive  psychology has  an explicit  concern  for  building  individual  strengths  and  life  skills and improving well being in young people, direction where schools have an important role. Ensuring support for  positive  mental  health  prevention  and  promotion  in  children  and youth  has been  achieving through designing and implementing of educational programs centered on positive feelings, qualities and skills so that children and youth become happy and responsible adults as members of healthy communities.  

Road to Happiness

Proactivity

Self Actualization

Positive emotions

Engagement

Accomplishment

Self determination

Self determination is a development of motivation and personality. 

Hope reflects an individual perception of their capacity to clearly conceptualize goals, develop the specific strategies to reach those goals/ pathways. and also initiate and sustain the motivation for using those strategies.

Positive Psychology in the Classroom is Teaching students to be self-aware, self-assured and self-sufficient.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. The art of positive psychology is learning not to teach by the book only. The art of positive psychology is learning to teach by heart so as to assist in the discovery of self, others and the world. In positive psychology, the teacher is the student’s muse.

Emotions

Pleasurable activities

Behaviors

Thinking patterns

Changing negative 

thinking patterns

Goals

Happiness

Meaning

Hobbies

Relationships

Positive emotions evolves as psychological adaptation that increased our human ancestors odds of survival and reproduction.

Positive emotions widen the array of thoughts and actions. The benefits of broadened mindsets build a variety of personal resources such as social connections, coping strategies and environmental knowledge. 

Positive emotions are:

Pride

Love

Serenity

Gratitude

Joy

Inspiration

Awe

Positive psychology describes the effects a positive attitude can have on one’s enjoyment of a situation, people, and life as whole. If one is able to find something good about every situation they encounter, then their overall life experience will be positive. It explains that one’s mindset determines the outcome of a situation, including how well they get along with people around them. Positive emotions are capable of changing not only one's outlook on life, but also their life as a whole. By viewing every situation in a positive way stress can be reduced, and both physical and mental discomfort will be limited.