The most common source of joy is relations with other people, especially in friendship and love. Positive psychology is an emerging field growing as a critical response to psychology's exclusive focus on pathology and problems in life. Positive psychology begins to address the problem of everyday unhappiness by asking who is happy and why, counteracting by cultivating Everyday Happiness. Happiness is created by attention and organization of consciousness. This "flow" state is cultivated by attention to the skill-to-challenge ratio. The concept of Flow asserts, when skills match opportunities, adversity is transformed into challenge, enjoyment of the immediate experience is heightened- all resulting in improving the quality of life and everyday happiness. Positive psychology is powerfully related to concentration training (see our web page Mindfulness-and Beyond). We learn skills to direct our mind by steering it back to the intended object, reducing distractions and rather than partially focusing, we have the power to continuously focus on our goals. By staying completely and continuously, we calm our mental distractions, increasing organization of our mind, and make the mind serviceable to our needs. Positive psychotherapy fosters the needs so important to our psychological health. The needs of secure attachment, secure romantic attachment and intimacy, optimism, hope, and social well-being.
