Authentic Happiness: Using The New Positive Psychology To Realise Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment ~ By Martin Seligman

This book, authentic happiness: using the new positive psychology to realise your potential for lasting fulfillment represents what renowned psychologist Martin Seligman has stood for over several years now.

His first best seller book ~ Learned Optimism, preached the concept of flexible optimism but this new book about how we can achieve authentic happiness focuses on a rather new approach to life.

The new approach is ‘Positive Psychology’ and it is a refreshing change from the age-old idea that lays too much emphasis on negativism and pathology.

The book is a sequential account of a journey of personal growth which a lot of us need and discovery which led him to adopt this new positive psychology approach.

Positive psychology is about bringing our strengths to the forefront of our lives as opposed to our weaknesses. By so doing, happiness is allowed to grow using our pre-existing strengths like optimism, kindness, humor etc as nourishment for this growth.

There are aspects in the book that engages the reader’s interactivity in the form of self-rating scales which are quite relevant to our self-assessment of self and character all of which are important in our journey to find authentic happiness and personal growth.

Martin Seligman also talks about good and effective parenting of children as they essentially represent the future.

These chapters in the book make the book particularly interesting and appealing to all who seek personal growth and self improvement.

Focusing on positive emotionality, growth and other positive psychology methods he describes in the book, we are able to protect ourselves against the negative effects of misfortune and negative emotions.

Thus elevating not only the reader’s life to a level of lasting authentic happiness and fulfillment but the lives of those around the reader’s as well. Highly recommended.

Reasonably priced for all who seek to achieve authentic happiness.

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