wisconsin public psychiatry network teleconference (wppnt) · 2019. 7. 18. · a wandering mind is...

Wisconsin Public Psychiatry Network Teleconference (WPPNT)

• This teleconference is brought to you by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services

(DHS), Division of Care and Treatment Services, Bureau of Prevention Treatment and Recovery and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Psychiatry.

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third party.

• 2019, Pelin Kesebir, Reproduced with permission.

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Pelin Kesebir, Ph.D.

What Is a Healthy

Mind? &

How Can You Cultivate It?

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What Is Happiness?

“If only I could have everything I want

and get rid of everything I don’t want, then I’d be

happy”

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Happiness is a skill that can be cultivated.

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“The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who has so

little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his

life in fruitless efforts.”

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) 7

A Healthy Mind: The Fountain of Happiness

More than anything else, our well-being is determined by our mind.

To transform our world, we need to transform our minds.

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A healthy mind is a function of what we attend to and how we interpret the things that we attend to.

A Healthy Mind: A Matter of Attention & Interpretation

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Attention

Attention is like a spotlight. What it illuminates streams into our mind

and becomes our reality.

Where we focus our attention has a direct bearing on our happiness.

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Individual Differences in Attention Predict Well-being

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Individual Differences in Attention Predict Well-being

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Attention & Happiness

Developing greater control over our attention is foundational to reshaping

our mind and becoming happier.

A Wandering Mind Is An Unhappy Mind

Attention can be trained to facilitate orientation to more positive and less

negative stimuli.

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Having Our Radar Out for the Positive

To enhance our happiness, we need to train ourselves to attend

more to the good around us.

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Appreciating the Ordinary

How was it possible, I asked myself, to walk for an hour through the woods and see nothing worthy of note?

I who cannot see find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf. I pass my hands lovingly about the smooth skin of a silver

birch, or the rough, shaggy bark of a pine. In spring I touch the branches of trees hopefully in search of a bud…

If I were the president of a university I should establish a compulsory course in “How to Use Your Eyes”. The

professor would try to show his pupils how they could add joy to their lives by really seeing what passes unnoticed

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Paying Attention to the News

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Paying Attention to the News

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16 Bad Things Decreasing

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16 Good Things

Increasing

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What Do You Put In Your Mind?

We should be as careful about what we put into our minds as about what we put into our mouths.

What do you want to swim in your consciousness?

What do you want to take root in your mind?

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Happiness: A Matter of Interpretation

To different minds, the same world is a hell and a heaven. — Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Happy people perceive, interpret, and think about the same events in more positive ways than do unhappy people.

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Positivity

“A pervasive mode of appraising, viewing, and perceiving life from a positive stance”

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Positivity

Positivity is inextricably linked to greater well-being.

Positivity can be learned.

All positivity cultivating techniques involve the exercise of interpreting the

world with a more charitable perspective.

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3 Tips for a Healthy Mind

• Take good care of your body

• Accentuate the positive

• Practice mindfulness

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