User:Positive270/Flourishing

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Flourishing is just one area of study in the fast-growing field of positive psychology. To flourish means “to live within an optimal range of human functioning, one that connotes goodness, generativity, growth, and resilience.”^[1] Flourishing can be seen as the opposite of both pathology and languishing, which are described as living a life that feels both hollow and empty.

Flourishing is an important positive psychology concept to cultivate and to study because it is a measure of overall life well-being and is, therefore, vitally important to our happiness.^{[1] [2]} Many components and concepts contribute to the overall concept and definition of flourishing and the benefits of a life that can be characterized as flourishing. Consequentially, flourishing exists as an umbrella concept because it includes and incorporates many other concepts in the positive psychology field such as cultivating strengths, subjective well-being, positive work spaces, etc.