It’s Stress Reduction Sunday. Read my weekly post in the Connecticut Watchdog. Here is my CT Watchdog posts from last week:
Diligent Joy: Cultivating the Present Moment
In Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert talks about “diligent joy,” suggesting that joy is an active process and not just something that happens to us. This is consistent with the message of positive psychology — feeling good arises from practicing a set of skills devoted to how we perceive ourselves and the world around us. Gilbert defines diligent joy as, “This is what I’d like to hold on to. Please help me to memorize this feeling of contentment and to always support it.”