Master’s Program in Personal and Social Well-Being

  1. Happiness and its causes
    1. What are well-being and happiness?
    2. What causes happiness and well-being?
    3. The 3 keys to well-being and happiness
      1. Genetics and circumstances
      2. Learning the guidelines for well-being
      3. Training in the guidelines for well-being
  2. Training awareness
    1. Meditation sessions
      1. Focused meditation
      2. Unfocused Meditation and Discernment
    2. Living with awareness
  3. Training your thoughts
    1. Cultivating positive thoughts
      1. Thoughts oriented to the present and the past
      2. Thoughts oriented to the future
    2. Managing negative thoughts
        1. Becoming aware of irrational beliefs
        2. Dismantling irrational beliefs
        3. Managing Unpleasant Memories

      Specific Problems:

        • Trauma
        • Childhood Abuse and Emotional Neglect
        • Sexual Abuse
  4. Training your emotions
    1. Cultivating pleasant emotions
      1. Serenity
      2. Love
      3. Joy
      4. Satiety
      5. Motivation and enthusiasm
      6. The pleasure of doing what we enjoy
      7. Sensory pleasures
      8. Interest
      9. Pleasant Surprise
    2. Managing unpleasant emotions
      1. General management
        1. Feeling, becoming aware, and expressing
        2. Rationalising
        3. Solving
        4. Accepting
        5. Reframing positively
        6. Freeing yourself (or learning to live with it)
      2. Specific management
          1. Fear and anxiety

        Specific Problems:

            • Shyness
            • Perfectionism
            • Phobias
            • Generalized Anxiety
            • Panic Attacks
            • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
          1. Anger and resentment

        Specific Problems:

            • Tendency Towards Irritability
          1. Frustration

        Specific Problems:

            • Tendency Towards Bitterness
          1. Sadness

        Specific Problems:

            • Autumn-Winter Mood Decline
            • Loss of a Loved One
            • Feelings of Loneliness and Not Being Loved
            • Depression
          1. Guilt
          2. Shame
          3. Feeling unworthy
          4. Contempt
          5. Disgust
          6. Hatred
          7. Envy
          8. Stress

        Specific Problems:

            • Workplace Stress
            • Competitive Personality (Type A)
          1. Intense urges

        Specific Problems:

            • Alcohol Addiction
            • Drug Addiction
            • Medication Addiction
            • Tobacco Addiction
            • Behavioral Addiction
            • New Technologies Addiction
            • Success Addiction
            • Relationship Addiction
          1. Apathy
          2. Boredom
          3. Physical Aches and Pains

        Specific Problems:

            • Chronic Pain
          1. Fatigue and Drowsiness

        Specific Problems:

          • Pathological Fatigue
          • Excessive Drowsiness
        1. Feeling of Emptiness
        2. Other Unpleasant Sensations
  5. Training bodily expressions
    1. Positive body
      1. Balanced posture
      2. Relaxed body
      3. Deep breathing
    2. Positive facial expression
  6. Training behaviours
    1. Healthy habits
    2. Living in accordance with who we are
  7. Training needs
    1. Managing needs
      1. Feeling comfortable with needs
      2. Simplifying needs
      3. Meeting needs
    2. General needs
        1. Safety
        2. Prosperity

      Specific Problems:

          • Financial Problems
        1. Freedom

      Specific Problems:

          • Lack of Freedom
        1. Peace

      Specific Problems:

          • Conflict
          • Aggressiveness
          • Violence
        1. Justice

      Specific Problems:

          • Political or Social Oppression
        1. Balanced time and pace of life

      Specific Problems:

          • Frantic Lifestyle
          • Order
          • Stability and change

      Specific Problems:

          • Excessively Changing Life or Environment
          • Excessively Routine Life
    3. Bodily needs
        1. Health and physical integrity

      Specific Problems:

          • Illness
          • Accident
          • Psychosomatic Problems
          • Hypochondria
          • Problems of Old Age
        1. Healthy eating

      Specific Problems:

          • Obesity
          • Binge Eating
          • Bulimia
          • Anorexia
        1. Physical exercise

      Specific Problems:

        • Vigorexia (Muscle Dysmorphia)
      1. Light and solar radiation
      2. Moderate temperature
    4. Mental needs
      1. Realistic goals
      2. Intellectual needs
      3. Aesthetic needs
      4. Meaning
    5. Needs for action and recovery
        1. Satisfying work

      Specific Problems:

          • Job Loss
          • Workplace Harassment (Mobbing)
          • Job Dissatisfaction
        1. Pleasant leisure
        2. Rest
        3. Restorative sleep

      Specific Problems:

        • Insomnia
        • Problems During Sleep
        • Other Sleep Problems
    6. Needs in relation to myself
        1. Self-esteem

      Specific Problems:

        • Masochism (Seeking Suffering)
        • Narcissism (Excessive Egocentrism)
        • Preoccupation with Physical Flaws
      1. Personal space
    7. Needs in relation to others
      1. The 3 foundations of satisfying relationships
          1. Social thoughts
          2. Social feelings
          3. Social behaviours and attitudes

        Specific Problems:

          • Abuse and Mistreatment
          • Domination and Manipulation
          • Excessive Criticism
          • Unsatisfying Solitude
          • Unwanted Cohabitation
          • Excessive Distrust
          • Pronounced Introversion
          • Pronounced Eccentricity
          • Relationship Instability
      2. Types of relationships
          1. Partner

        Specific Problems:

            • Unsatisfying Singleness
            • Unrequited Love
            • Fear of Commitment
            • Relationship Problems
            • Jealousy
            • Domestic Violence
            • Separation and Divorce
          1. Children

        Specific Problems:

            • Parent-Child Relationship Problems
            • Children’s Behavioral Problems
            • Dissatisfaction from Inability to Have Children
            • Problems of Single Mothers/Fathers
          1. Relatives

        Specific Problems:

          • Family Relationship Problems
        1. Friends
        2. Acquaintances
        3. Animals
      3. Needs linked to relationships
          1. Belonging to a group

        Specific Problems:

            • Problems with Group Integration
          1. Solidarity
          2. Equality, status, and distinction
          3. Sexuality

        Specific Problems:

          • Sexual Problems
          • Unaccepted Homosexuality
          • Homosexuality in a Homophobic Environment
          • Gender Identity Issues
    8. Needs in relation to our environment
      1. A pleasant environment and home
      2. Possessions
      3. Exploration and adventure
      4. Nature
      5. Spirituality
    9. Other needs
    10. Social Well-being
      1. Families
      2. Businesses
      3. Schools
      4. Religious Organizations
      5. Politics
      6. Economy
      7. Society
        1. Do No Harm to Others

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