Joy Study

What’s the point of feeling good?

Positive emotions feel good. But that’s not all they do.

The purpose of positivity is to help us adapt over long time scales… Broadening our perception to build new behaviours and relationships.

Joy confers resilience and spurs social connection.

Curiosity brings motivation and invites bravery

Serenity affords confidence and stability.

Every learning process is a long term endeavour, and understanding how positive and negative emotions affect us, we can design mind, body and environment to help us achieve our goals, meet our responsibilities and foster loving relationships.

Play

Play allows us to openly explore what can be done, instead of narrowly focusing on what should be done.

An attitude of play is calming and broadening; our body is less tense and our eyes open for new opportunities.

Discover how play can be applied in a motor learning context, and as a disposition in everyday life.

Lightness

Take it lightly. The emotional flexibility of lightness builds resilience and adaptability.

Relax the hand of thought and open the body in exuberance to stimulate the physiology of the ego.

These are practices for getting out our heads and back to joy, even in moments of struggle.

Motivation

Why we act and don’t act. Motivation is the emotional force behind our behaviour.

Consistent action requires consistent motivation. How do we find something that endures in such a fast changing world?

Through an exploration of aesthetic sensibility, we may arrive at a meaningful and personal answer.

Harmony

Whole body harmony is a major predictor of wellbeing, performance and consistency.

When our mind is divided against itself, our actions lose their potency to self-doubt. Harmony between movement, emotion, thought and sensation sets us up for success in whatever we are doing.

Explore practices on attentional control, body awareness and emotional alignment.