Identify, analyze, and review the rapidly expanding body of scientific studies on happiness and psychological well-being The resulting information includes three grades of complexity:.Now that a perfect storm of challenges, including the COVID 19 pandemic, as well as the misuse of new technology, are sweeping the world, depression and self-harm have taken on still more urgency. New electronic media provide the ideal platform to make this information widely and rapidly accessible. Now science is revealing surprising secrets about our well-being. Thanks to science the whole world is linked by a worldwide web. Thanks to the recent emergence of Positive Psychology and the new “Science of Happiness” a wealth of scientific information on psychological well-being is being generated. We have forgotten Aristotle’s warning: Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. We are so busy pursuing intellectual skills that we have neglected the pursuit of happiness. More than two hundred years later, our schools and universities are still neglecting these goals. Thomas Jefferson and the founders of U.S. Both Confucius and Socrates insisted that well-being and personal growth were a major purpose of life, and a central goal of education. The Pursuit of Happiness is an essential human right. Make a Difference: Change the World, Change Yourself.

High School Happiness and Wellbeing Curriculum.Annotated Bibliography – Mindfulness & Positive Thinking.Review of Key Studies on Mindfulness & Positive Thinking.The Philosophy & Science of Mindfulness.

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