Flourishing Lives

Flourishing Lives
Author: Gary Chartier
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2019-06-27
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108493041

Elaborates and illustrates a radical version of political and social liberalism rooted in a rich understanding of fulfilment and flourishing.

Flourishing

Flourishing
Author: Corey L. M. Keyes
Publisher: Amer Psychological Assn
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2003
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781557989307

Psychology has made great strides in understanding mental illness, but how much has it learned about mental health? When people want to reflect upon the good life and how to live it, they turn to philosophers and novelists, not psychologists. The emerging field of positive psychology aims to redress this imbalance. In Flourishing, distinguished scholars apply scientific analyses to study the good life, expanding the scope of social and psychological research to include happiness, well-being, courage, citizenship, play, and the satisfactions of healthy work and healthy relationships. Their findings reveal that a sense of meaning and a feeling of richness emerge in life as people immerse themselves in activities, relationships, and the pursuit of intrinsically satisfying goals like overcoming adversity or serving one's community through volunteering. This provocative book will further define this evolving field.

Flourishing

Flourishing
Author: Maureen Gaffney
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2011-10-27
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0141970499

'A realistic approach to positive thinking' Sunday Times Do you want to be better at pursuing goals, grasping opportunities and facing set-backs? Do you want to FLOURISH? Psychologist Maureen Gaffney believes that in an increasingly uncertain world it is not only possible for us to flourish but essential that we take steps to do so. In Flourishing she shows you how to: Achieve a deeper sense of well-being, meaning and purpose Use adversity as a positive turning point Train your mind to pay attention Master your emotions and focus on your goals This gripping, stimulating and inspiring book will help you change your life for the better. Get ready to flourish!

Positive Health: Flourishing Lives, Well-Being in Doctors

Positive Health: Flourishing Lives, Well-Being in Doctors
Author: Marsha W. Snyder M.D. MAPP.
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2014-12-17
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1452598312

Medical doctors take so much time taking care of their patients that they often neglect their own bodies and minds. Marsha W. Snyder, M.D., seeks to change that in this guidebook to living a life filled with positivity, satisfaction, and proper exercise. She pays particular attention to the root of the problem: the demands that are placed on future medical professionals in the first year of medical school. With this book, youll learn how to: balance the demands of the workplace, home, and your body; develop resilience so you can engage in proper self-care and avoid burnout, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and other negative outcomes. cultivate more positive emotions inside and outside the workplace; engage in positive fitness, movement, and breathing techniques to boost overall health. Increasing positive health in doctors and health care personnel will improve employee and patient satisfaction, decrease the cost of care, reduce employee sick days, and lessen employee turnover. Whether youre a medical student, medical educator, administrator or an active practitioner, youll live a longer and happier life by following the advice in Positive Health: Flourishing Lives, Well-Being in Doctors.

Flourishing Life

Flourishing Life
Author: Sandra M. Levy-Achtemeier
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 107
Release: 2012-05-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1621892018

Drawing from the fields of evolutionary neuroscience, psychology, and theology, Sandra Levy-Achtemeier considers what it might mean for humans, as embodied and spiritual selves, to flourish now, and how such flourishing can contribute to our final flourishing in the time to come. She shows how such holistic flourishing and growth-filled transformation can occur even--and perhaps especially--in times of darkness and struggle. In this engaging work, she makes complex ideas accessible to all who hunger for deeper spiritual growth over the course of their lives. This book is not only highly readable, but it is also a practical guide to the flourishing life, providing resources for embodied practices--from prayer to dance to storytelling--which can enhance our human flourishing now. In short, she lays out a complete picture of human flourishing, from our evolutionary roots to kingdom living in the life to come.

A Flourishing Life

A Flourishing Life
Author: Noha Khalil
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2012-04-26
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1477214909

A Flourishing Life, A Guide for a New Vision is a fieldwork in a building called ZOHA, which presents a new way of life. The human being is interrelated to his community that gives him the right to ask for change. The structural environment opens up the path to the world of religions. The individual, as micro phenomena, symbolizes globalization; he becomes the main actor, who communicates with God and the spirituality of all religions. They are the fundamental sources of ethical principles and values which transform our personality and change our mind, heart and spirit for a better life. People, as macro phenomena, are the greatest asset in this research, their body and mind are holy. The power of God and the spirituality of all religions are the renewable energy sources focusing on the Ethos, Pathos and Logos. Human beings believe in these creative, positive, renewable energy sources as part of a natural ecological system, capable of changing their whole being from inside-out by renewing their mind and body. Human existence represents a continuum, constantly changing, like nature that renews itself with the positive energy of the sun. The fundamental principles and values of all religions are highly important in influencing the human mind. They are powerful paradigms in changing our attitude and behavior. Paradigms of change are the positive dynamics, the electrical energies conducing positive waves on our Logos, Ethos and Pathos that create the Personality Ethic and present the new social contract.

Human Flourishing

Human Flourishing
Author: Greg Forster
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2020-08-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1725259451

Beyond an internal transformation or mere "moment of salvation," how does Christian faith envision the good life? This question demands not only a Christian view of how individuals should live, but of how social institutions are best arranged for human flourishing. In the advanced modern world, our common public life is mainly lived out in the domains of work and commerce, so a Christian view of economic life is essential to a modern Christian view of human flourishing. In this volume, established evangelical scholars in theology, biblical studies, and history explore their disciplines in connection with economic wisdom to yield insights about what it means to live wholly, fruitfully, and well. Faithful and provocative, these essays uncover fresh ground on topics ranging from poverty to work ethic to capitalism/socialism to slavery to non-profit entities to the medieval indulgence industry.

Flourish

Flourish
Author: Martin E. P. Seligman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2011
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1439190763

Explains the four pillars of well-being--meaning and purpose, positive emotions, relationships, and accomplishment--placing emphasis on meaning and purpose as the most important for achieving a life of fulfillment.

Flourishing Children

Flourishing Children
Author: Laura H. Lippman
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2014-07-08
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9401786070

This volume presents the results of the Flourishing Children Project. The study addressed gaps in the research on indicators of positive development of adolescents. Such indicators are essential for the balanced and scientifically sound study of adolescents. Yet measures of many aspects of flourishing are not available, and when they do exist, they are rarely measured in a developmentally appropriate manner for adolescents. In addition, they are often too long for program evaluations and surveys, have not been tested on diverse populations, nor carefully validated as predictors of positive outcomes. The Flourishing Children Project undertook the development of scales for adolescents ages 12-17 for 19 aspects of flourishing covering six domains: flourishing in school and work, personal flourishing, flourishing in relationships, relationship skills, helping others to flourish, and environmental stewardship. This volume describes the four-stage process of developing the scales, including: Reviewing the literature for extant measures for items to test and synthesizing the existing research into consensus definitions for each construct; conducting cognitive testing of items with adolescents and their parents; pilot testing the items; and conducting psychometric analyses.

Human Flourishing in an Age of Gene Editing

Human Flourishing in an Age of Gene Editing
Author: Erik Parens
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2019-07-29
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0190940387

International uproar followed the recent announcement of the birth of twin girls whose genomes had been edited with a breakthrough DNA editing-technology. This technology, called clustered regularly interspaced short palindrome repeats or CRISPR-Cas9, can alter any DNA, including DNA in embryos, meaning that changes can be passed to the offspring of the person that embryo becomes. Should we use gene editing technologies to change ourselves, our children, and future generations to come? The potential uses of CRISPR-Cas9 and other gene editing technologies are unprecedented in human history. By using these technologies, we eradicate certain dreadful diseases. Altering human DNA, however, raises enormously difficult questions. Some of these questions are about safety: Can these technologies be deployed without posing an unreasonable risk of physical harm to current and future generations? Can all physical risks be adequately assessed, and responsibly managed? But gene editing technologies also raise other moral questions, which touch on deeply held, personal, cultural, and societal values: Might such technologies redefine what it means to be healthy, or normal, or cherished? Might they undermine relationships between parents and children, or exacerbate the gap between the haves and have-nots? The broadest form of this second kind of question is the focus of this book: What might gene editing--and related technologies--mean for human flourishing? In the new essays collected here, an interdisciplinary group of scholars asks age--old questions about the nature and well-being of humans in the context of a revolutionary new biotechnology--one that has the potential to change the genetic make-up of both existing people and future generations. Welcoming readers who study related issues and those not yet familiar with the formal study of bioethics, the authors of these essays open up a conversation about the ethics of gene editing. It is through this conversation that citizens can influence laws and the distribution of funding for science and medicine, that professional leaders can shape understanding and use of gene editing and related technologies by scientists, patients, and practitioners, and that individuals can make decisions about their own lives and the lives of their families.