The ability to cultivate and learn positive emotions can significantly improve one's well-being (Fredrickson, 2001).

When people can explore, savour, and integrate positive emotions into their daily lives, their habitual thinking and behaviours improve (and visualize future lives). Positive emotions have the potential to mitigate the negative effects of negative emotions and increase resilience (Tugade & Fredrickson, 2004).

Building physical, intellectual, psychological, and social resources that contribute to wellbeing and resilience is possible when people experience positive emotions.

Everyone has a different purpose or meaning to their lives. Meaning may be pursued through a profession, a social or political cause, a creative endeavor, or a religious/spiritual belief. It may be found in a career or through extracurricular, volunteer, or community activities.

A sense of meaning is guided by personal values, and people who report having purpose in life live longer and have greater life satisfaction and fewer health problems (Kashdan, Mishra, Breen, & Froh, 2009).

A sense of accomplishment is a result of working toward and reaching goals, mastering an endeavor, and having self-motivation to finish what you set out to do. This contributes to wellbeing because individuals can look at their lives with a sense of pride (Seligman, 2012).

Accomplishment includes the concepts of perseverance and having a passion to attain goals. But flourishing and wellbeing come when accomplishment is tied to striving toward things with an internal motivation or working toward something just for the sake of the pursuit and improvement (Quinn, 2018).

Achieving intrinsic goals (such as growth and connection) leads to larger gains in wellbeing than external goals such as money or fame (Seligman, 2013).

In addition, improving the quality of our nutrition is likely to reduce health problems such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease and even cancer. There is also significant research demonstrating a relationship between diet and positive mental health. 

Good sleep hygiene helps develop mental and emotional resilience and sleep deprivation can lead to negative thinking and emotional vulnerability. 

Ways @PPS we build positive health: