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The Impact of Three Good Things

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“Positive psychology is the science behind personality traits that makes it possible for individuals and societies to evolve and grow, it is a study of well-being and optimal functioning as well as human strengths.” Psychologists developed positive psychology interventions generally to help people in grow their positivity, well-being, relationships, creativity and other desirable consequences (E.g, three good things, gratitude visit and identifying signature strengths). Three good things is an intervention where participants write down three good things happening to them, or things that went well during the day, each day, for a certain time period. This method began to show positive effects about one month after the test period was over. At the one-month follow-up, participants showed more happiness and less depression than at the baseline. The participants also stayed less depressed and increased their happiness at the three-month and six-month follow-ups (Seligman, Steen, Park & Peterson 2005). I wrote down three good things happening to me, each night, for a month. I felt that it left a huge psychological impact on me. After about a week and a half, I started to look for things to be happy about automatically, without thinking about the assignment. I started to see things from another, more positive, perspective. I will keep doing this exercise because I felt like it made me feel more grateful about the small things than before. I also started to appreciate more things, (E.g. I walked back home from school, thinking about my friends and family, it was 85 degrees in October as I was walking around this beautiful lake. It made me appreciate a little thing like that, knowing how rough and cold it is back in Sweden). I think that the well-being test will show a difference, not necessarily a huge different, because I was pretty excited when I moved here to Florida, but definitely a difference. We tend to take a lot of things for

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