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Week 6 Overview

Module 6: Emotional Wellness

Introduction

Negative statements from others can make us feel bad about ourselves. We’re taught not to let others
put us down, but sometimes we arethe person eroding our sense of self-worth and limiting our potential!
That’s right, our self-talk - our own inner voice - can increase our stress levels, limit our potential, and
negatively affect our perceptions. Positive self-talk can improve self-esteem, stress levels, and overall
confidence.

Positive Psychology, Introduced by Martin Seligman, is a relatively new field. Its purpose is to understand
and foster the factors that allow individuals, communities, and societies to flourish. Positive Psychology studies
how a human being’s happiness can be created by focusing on the positive aspects that can facilitate growth
and wellness. (Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000).

Outcomes

Identify and assess current self-talk

Evaluate your strengths from survey

Determine ways to turn around negative self-talk

Checklist

Read pages 213-217 of the textbook. In this chapter, your text discusses self-talk and how dwelling on the negative affects our self-concept.

1. Over the next couple of days, listen to your self-talk. On the attached worksheet, write the situation and the negative OR positive self-talk that you hear. You may also use examples that are recurring throughout your life, i.e. when I am around my mother-in-law, when I meet new people, etc.

2. Go to this link and complete the "VIA Survey of Character Strengths" which measures 24 character strengths.

http://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/Default.aspx. You WILL need to register on the website.

The survey consists of 240 questions. Be prepared to spend approximately an hour on the survey. Upon completion, you will receive a detailed list of your top 5 character strengths according to the survey.