Ever wished someone could tell you how to be happier? About a dozen years ago science turned its attention to the positive. Now this research can give you a series of activities and exercises that can make you lastingly happier.
Around the same time research was being released about the highly sensitive person, the one person in five, men and women equally, who were high in sensory processing sensitivity. According to Elaine Aron, Ph.D., the HSP is more aware of the subtleties in their surroundings and of the nuances in relationships. But because HSPs take in more, they need to design a lifestyle that permits more time for rest and refreshment, and to choose situations that favor their special gifts in a culture that often prefers the more aggressive and hard-driving. At Authenticity Coaching our teleconference classes, small group and individual coaching opportunities provide you with evidence-based practices and experiential learning that you can use to create a life that fits you better, one that benefits career, family, and friendship and brings you greater overall life satisfaction. Unleash your best selfStudy after study strongly shows the importance of positive emotion, and that the frequent use of your core strengths builds positive momentum, capitalizing on who you are when you're at your best. This is in contrast to the approach that focuses on your negative emotions and on overcoming your weaknesses, an approach that keeps your mind on where you don't want to go instead of where you do. Not only does the positive way feel better, it works better, and there's a great deal of data to show that. We include both study and implementation so that you build a strong conceptual framework, and then pair that with practical strategies, weekly assignments and daily exercises. Because you have busy lives, assignments outside class are intended to be minimally time-intensive and can be completed in about three hours. Honor your strengths and your sensitivity Our classes are based on the work of leaders in positive psychology--Drs. Martin Seligman, Tal Ben-Shahar, Sonja Lyubomirsky, Christopher Peterson, Barbara Fredrickson, Alex Linley and Robert Biswas-Diener.
They have provided for our use a number of online inventories and quizzes, and Dr. Aron has made available the Highly Sensitive Person's self-quiz. Together with the Authenticity Coaching classes these resources can help you develop the habits of daily happiness as they apply to the workplace, the family and to you as an individual. | 
