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		<title>Symptoms of Stress and Anxiety</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 05:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About stress, symptoms of stress and anxiety, five major stress types: symptoms of stress and anxiety, stress and anger, physical symptoms of stress, depression stress, and psychosis.  Definition of stress symptoms, ability to track symptoms of stress and signs of stress using the Lifetrack model of Positive Mental Health.   <a href="https://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/2010/10/28/symptoms-of-stress-and-anxiety/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p>When we encounter a challenge in our Self (<a title="self definition" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/self-definition/" target="_blank">self definition</a>), Intimacy (<a title="love definition" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/love-definition/" target="_blank">love definition</a>), or Achievement sphere (<a title="work definition" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/work-definition/" target="_blank">work definition</a>) that is either positive or negative, we can experience Stress or Fear.</p>
<p><a href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/shade.jpg"><img style="float:left;border:12px solid white;" title="stress definition" src="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/shade.jpg?w=300&amp;h=225" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a>In the <a title="lifetrack model of positive mental health" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/about/lifetrack-positive-mental-health/" target="_blank">Lifetrack model of health</a>, individuals rate their peaks of stress as they relate to changes in their sense of self, intimate relationships and achievements.</p>
<p>This helps us understand not only the nature of stress, but how we can use challenges to overcome symptoms of stress and anxiety.</p>
<h2>Five Stress Types</h2>
<p>Symptoms of stress can be varied.  For simplification Dr. <a title="yukio ishizuka" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/about/yukio-ishizuka/" target="_blank">Yukio Ishizuka</a> groups them into five major stress types: anxiety (symptoms of stress and anxiety), anger (stress and anger), physical symptoms (physical symptoms of stress), depression (depression stress), and psychosis.</p>
<p>Regardless of how bright, strong, or resilient you may be, if the challenges you face in life are more than you can handle, one or more of the above symptoms may manifest itself.  These symptoms may not subside until you respond to the source of distress.</p>
<p>Observe them and recognize that these distress signals are there to alert you that you have surpassed your stress threshold in one or more of the three spheres.  You may have to slow down and re-assess what is causing stress.  Only after a proper recognition of realities can one gain perspective and take positive action to build inner health.</p>
<p>As overwhelming as such symptoms may be, they are temporary.  They are not you.  Seek a proper recognition of realities, perspective, decision and action that build health.  If you cannot bear the suffering or are not able to breakthrough, reach out to loved ones, to your spouse, a friend or a professional.</p>
<h2>Stress Definition</h2>
<h3>Negative Peak: Negative peak experiences within a given rating period.</h3>
<p><strong>Anxiety</strong>: Thoughts, feelings and actions that signal anxiety, nervousness, tension, worry, and fear.</p>
<p><strong>Anger</strong>:  Thoughts, feelings, and actions that are angry, unfriendly, hostile, and mean</p>
<p><strong>Physical Symptoms</strong>: Any and all physical symptoms and feeling of illness</p>
<p><strong>Depression</strong>: Thoughts, feelings, and actions that are negative to the point of being beyond your control</p>
<p><strong>Psychosis</strong>:  Thoughts, feelings, and actions that signal inconsistency, confusion, inappropriateness, ambivalence or paralysis</p>
<h2>Note on Psychosis:</h2>
<p>Psychosis as defined here can be even applied to the ‘healthy’ mind.  Traditionally psychosis is used to describe the ‘mentally ill’ ie. a person talking to himself or herself out loud or experiencing visions.  Most of us have fortunately never experienced such a painful state (although many ‘healthy’ people when placed under enough stress such as a battlefield do).</p>
<p>Even healthy people think to themselves.  You may be aware of a voice (your own thoughts) constantly replaying what you should have done yesterday or will not get to do tomorrow.  For most of us, this is normal.</p>
<p>However, negative or inconsistent thoughts when playing over and over may contribute to paralysis, confusion, scattered behavior or exhaustion.  When we obsessively think about what to do next or what we should have done yesterday, our ‘inner voice’ is out of control.  We can rate this ‘loud’ inner voice in the Lifetrack scale as ‘psychosis.’  This state can occur in ‘healthy’ human beings. When trained our state of mind can be clear and in the present moment, free of such incessant noise.</p>
<p>Someone who experiences traditional <strong>psychotic symptoms</strong> (frightening visions, or cannot distinguish the inner voice from outer voices) may lose his or her capacity, to think, feel and act coherently.  He or she is not able to recognize the symptoms of psychosis nor to rate himself or herself until medication has returned the mind to normal functioning.</p>
<p>Psychotic symptoms must be treated by professional help.  Medications are essential to control such symptoms.  Once controlled, the individual can then return to the same challenge of becoming closer to another human being, developing a sense of self or achievement.  Due to the nature of the symptoms, however, such individuals need a strong support system and most must continue medications even when feeling well.</p>
<p>Copyright © 2010 Lifetrack Corporation</p>
<p>Visit <a title="Positive Mental Health Foundation" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/" target="_blank">http://www.PositiveMentalHealthFoundation.com</a> to understand individuals at their best, happiest, and most creative form.  Link to us to promote health and happiness.</p>
<p>Read more about <a title="overcoming fear" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/symptoms-of-stress-and-anxiety/fear-of-people/" target="_blank">overcoming fear</a>, five stress symptoms (<a title="stress types" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/symptoms-of-stress-and-anxiety/stress-types/" target="_blank">stress types</a>), <a title="stress techniques" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/symptoms-of-stress-and-anxiety/stress-techniques/" target="_blank">stress techniques</a>, and alternatives of the threshold of stress (don’t <a title="hate life" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/symptoms-of-stress-and-anxiety/hate-life/" target="_blank">hate life</a>).  In <a title="lifetrack therapy" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/about/lifetrack-positive-mental-health/" target="_blank">Lifetrack therapy</a> the objective is not the mere elimination of stress symptoms, but building inner <a title="health and happiness" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/" target="_blank">health and happiness</a>.</p>
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		<title>Self Definition</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
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<h2>Definition of Self</h2>
<p>Traditionally, the integrity of the Self refers to the entire personality of the individual.</p>
<p>The <a title="lifetrack" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/about/lifetrack-positive-mental-health/" target="_blank">Lifetrack</a> model of positive mental health developed by <a title="dr. yukio ishizuka" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/about/yukio-ishizuka/" target="_blank">Dr. Yukio Ishizuka</a> defines Self more narrowly.  Self is the ability and willingness to be “in touch,” “at peace, ” and “in control, ” of one’s thoughts, feelings and actions.</p>
<h2>The Self Sphere does not exist in a vacuum</h2>
<p>Self interacts with our <a title="work definition" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/work-definition/" target="_blank">Achievement</a> and <a title="love definition" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/love-definition/" target="_blank">Intimacy</a> spheres.   What happens in our work day and our close intimate relationships influence our sense of self.   Similarly, our sense of Self affects our experience of Intimacy and Achievement.</p>
<p>To be “in touch,” “at peace,” and “in control” of self requires the capacity to recognize and accept both positives and negatives in life, integrating them into a balanced perspective.  It also includes the flexibility to initiate, modify, and control thoughts, feelings, and actions.  We can do this be observing our Self and remaining present in the given moment.</p>
<h2>Self Definition in the <a title="Lifetrack Model of Positive Mental Health" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/about/lifetrack-positive-mental-health/" target="_blank">Lifetrack Model</a></h2>
<p>The Self Sphere is defined as how well you are in touch, at peace, and in control of “self.”</p>
<h3>In Touch: How well you are in touch with your thoughts, feelings, and actions</h3>
<p><strong>Positives</strong>: The extent to which you are aware of happy or optimistic thoughts, feelings, and actions<br />
<strong>Negatives</strong>: The extent to which you are aware of pessimistic or unpleasant thoughts, feelings, and actions<br />
<strong>Integration</strong>: How well you integrate your positives and negatives, while maintaining self-justification</p>
<h3>At Peace: How well you are at peace with your thoughts, feelings and actions</h3>
<p><strong>Positives</strong>: The extent to which you accept, appreciate, and feel comfortable with positive thoughts, feelings, and actions<br />
<strong>Negatives</strong>: The extent to which you can accept, and come to peaceful terms with negative thoughts, feelings, and actions<br />
<strong>Integration</strong>: How well you integrate your positives and negatives, while maintaining self-justification</p>
<h3>In Control: How well you are in control of your thoughts, feelings, and actions</h3>
<p><strong>Decision</strong>: Your ability to make choices and decisions<br />
<strong>Action</strong>: Your ability to act on decisions once they are made<br />
<strong>Monitor/Control</strong>: Your ability to be flexible, and to modify your thoughts, feelings, and actions</p>
<p>Copyright © 2010 Lifetrack Corporation</p>
<p>Visit <a title="Positive Mental Health Foundation" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/" target="_blank">http://www.PositiveMentalHealthFoundation.com</a> to understand individuals at their best, happiest, and most creative form.  Link to us to promote health and happiness.</p>
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Definition of the Self in positive terms, in touch, at peace, in control, true self</p>
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		<title>Negotiation and Psychology</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 06:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><a title="ishizuka nathalie" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/about/nathalie-ishizuka/" target="_blank">Ishizuka, Nathalie</a>, “Lifetrack Assumptions about Conflict Resolution and Third Party Intervention: A Case Study of Kissinger in the Middle East,” Published as Working Paper, <strong>Harvard Law Program on Negotiation</strong>, July 1995.</p>
<p>Ishizuka, Nathalie, “Negotiation Workshops Between Hostile Parties: Should one include a presentation on individual optimal adjustment in international negotiation workshops?” submitted to <strong>Harvard Law Program on Negotiation</strong>, September 1997.</p>
<h2>Editors and Journals</h2>
<p>If an editor is interested in a chapter for book format, or journal form, please notify the author.  If you have a syllabus with assumptions about healthy human beings applied to organizations, economics, negotiation, political science or other fields please contact Nathalie Ishizuka through the <a title="positive mental health foundation contact" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/contact/" target="_blank">Positive Mental Health Contact</a> form.  She is interested in collecting these for future use and sharing.</p>
<h2>A Need for Models of Healthy Human Beings</h2>
<p>Organizational and International behavior should be based on assumptions about healthy human beings.  Read section a Science of Health (<a title="life way" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/life-way/" target="_blank">life way</a>), Criteria for Health Models (<a title="science of happiness" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/science-of-happiness/" target="_blank">science of happiness</a>), Happiness Defined? Quantified?  (<a title="cycle of life" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/cycle-of-life/" target="_blank">cycle of life</a>),  Happier? (<a title="fear of the unknown" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/fear-of-the-unknown/" target="_blank">fear of the unknown</a>),  Why Positive Mental Health Works (<a title="objective subjective" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/objective-subjective/" target="_blank">objective subjective</a>), and Insights (<a title="life purpose" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/life-purpose/" target="_blank">life purpose</a>).</p>
<p>Visit the <a title="positive mental health foundation" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/" target="_blank">Positive Mental Health Foundation</a> to support a study of human beings at their best, happiest, and most creative form.  Link to us to promote health and happiness.</p>
<h2>Ready Made Descriptions to Link to Organizational and International Behavior:</h2>
<p><a title="Individual Health, Organizational Health, National Health" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/international-behavior/" target="_blank">Individual Health, Organizational Health, National Health</a><br />
Applications about healthy human beings to economics, international affairs, nations, organizational behavior.  A new organizational behavior concept or simply a new field of international behavior based on healthy human beings?</p>
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		<title>Nations and Psychology</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 06:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Models of the Nation State that interact with the Individual and Organizational Models can be useful for analyzing different levels of analysis.</p>
<p><strong>Selected Readings and Lectures:</strong></p>
<p>Ishizuka, Nathalie.  “A Trinitarian Model of War and Peace,” Working Paper submitted to Herbert Kelman for his class, Social-Psychological Approaches to International Conflict, Harvard University.</p>
<p>Ishizuka, Y., and Ishizuka N. ” ‘Fear of Closeness’ Underlies Interpersonal as Well as International Conflicts,” Proceedings of <strong>World Congress of Psychiatry</strong>, Spain, 1996.</p>
<p>“The U.S.-Japan Relationship from a Psychological Perspective” <strong>A panel on the U.S. – Japan Relationship</strong>, with <strong>Prof. Paul R. Krugman</strong> and others, Tufts University, Medford, MA (45 minutes)</p>
<p>Ishizuka, Yukio.  “The Japanese Mind: Its Implications for Corporations and Nations”<strong>The Institute for Global Business Strategy</strong>, Distinguished Lecture Series, Pace University, New York, November 12,1991 (3 hours)</p>
<p>Ishizuka, Yukio.  “The Japanese Mind: Its Implications for the U.S.-Japan Relationship”<strong>AT&amp;T Global Business Symposium</strong>, with <strong>Mr. Clyde Prestowitz</strong> and others, Bedminster, NJ, December 12,1991 (1.5 hours)</p>
<p>Copyright © 2010 Lifetrack Corporation</p>
<h2>A Need for Models based on Healthy Human Beings</h2>
<p>Organizational and International behavior should be based on assumptions about healthy human beings.  Read section a Science of Health (<a title="life way" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/life-way/" target="_blank">life way</a>), Criteria for Health Models (<a title="science of happiness" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/science-of-happiness/" target="_blank">science of happiness</a>), Happiness Defined? Quantified?  (<a title="cycle of life" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/cycle-of-life/" target="_blank">cycle of life</a>),  Happier? (<a title="fear of the unknown" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/fear-of-the-unknown/" target="_blank">fear of the unknown</a>),  Why Positive Mental Health Works (<a title="objective subjective" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/objective-subjective/" target="_blank">objective subjective</a>), and Insights (<a title="life purpose" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/life-purpose/" target="_blank">life purpose</a>).</p>
<p>Visit the <a title="positive mental health foundation" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/" target="_blank">Positive Mental Health Foundation</a> to support a study of human beings at their best, happiest, and most creative form.  Link to us to promote health and happiness.</p>
<h2>Ready Made Descriptions to Link to Organizational and International Behavior:</h2>
<p><a title="Individual Health, Organizational Health, National Health" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/international-behavior/" target="_blank">Individual Health, Organizational Health, National Health</a><br />
Applications about healthy human beings to economics, international affairs, nations, organizational behavior.  A new organizational behavior concept or simply a new field of international behavior based on healthy human beings?</p>
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		<title>Life Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1>A Science of <a title="Happiness and Health" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/" target="_blank">Happiness and Health</a></h1>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><em><a href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/cherryblossom-l.jpg"><img class="aligncenter" title="life way" src="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/cherryblossom-l.jpg?w=461&amp;h=345" alt="" width="461" height="345" /></a></em></p>
<p><em><a href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/cherryblossom-l.jpg"></a>The species “man,” can be defined not only in anatomical and physiological terms; its members share basic psychic qualities, the laws which govern their mental and emotional functioning, and the aims for a satisfactory solution of the problem of human existence.</em></p>
<p><em>It is true that our knowledge of man is still so incomplete that we cannot yet give a satisfactory definition of man in a psychological sense.  It is the task of the “science of man” to arrive eventually at a correct description of what deserves to be called human nature. — Erich Fromm (the Sane Society)</em></p>
<h2>Thinking the Unthinkable : A refreshing life way</h2>
<p>Can there really be a “science of man”?  How are we to know if psychic qualities really exist?  And, if they do, how might one come to know their nature – let alone how such psychic qualities are related and interact?</p>
<h2>The Answer Not Freud (<a title="freud psychonalysis" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/life-questions/freud-psychology/" target="_blank">Freud psychoanalysis</a>), but Einstein</h2>
<p>Interestingly, the answer to this question may not come from Freud, but Einstein.  He wrote, “In our endeavor to understand reality we are somewhat like a man trying to understand the mechanism of a closed watch.  He sees the face and the moving hands, even hears it’s ticking, but he has no way of opening the case.  If he is ingenious, he may form some picture of a mechanism for all the things he observes, but he may never be quite sure his picture is the only one, which could explain his observations.  He will never be able to compare his picture with the mechanism and he cannot even imagine the possibility and meaning of such comparison.”</p>
<h2>How We Make Sense of Reality</h2>
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<p>Einstein, by sharing this story of the watch, was describing the way the natural science of physics makes sense of reality.</p>
<p>He was well aware that despite that physicists may never discover exactly what was underneath the watch, there were still means to come closer to understanding it.</p>
<p>His predecessor, Newton, had done precisely that.  After stating a few postulates that most of the scientists in his time accepted, Newton attempted to show how the postulates could explain many of the things they observed.  To do so, however, he first had to define what it was he wanted to selectively observe or explain, and find a means or method to measure it (the latter was done by creating calculus).</p>
<h2><a title="a science of man" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/" target="_blank">A Science of Man</a></h2>
<p>In much the same way as physicists must grapple with understanding what is under the watch without being able to see it, the challenge with developing a natural “science of man” could be the same.  The first step then is to do what physics and all natural sciences must courageously attempt: describe general phenomena, concepts or abstractions, which explain a wide variety of experiences.  In the case of a science of man those general concepts concern human psychological experience. This endeavor is likely to be a more difficult task than physics!</p>
<h2>What are the Spheres of Psychological Existence?</h2>
<p>While all attempts to understand the mind are imperfect, if one begins in the tradition of the natural sciences one must start by describing psychological phenomena that are abstract (and encompassing enough) that they hold true for most psychological experience.  These postulates need to encompass psychic qualities that when present determine the experience of well-being and health or when absent distress and illness.  If indeed there were such core psychic qualities, the laws of “which govern our mental and emotional functioning,” then it would follow that when we move in accordance with those laws well-being is the result.</p>
<h2>Can the Same Spheres define health and illness?</h2>
<p>Forces, including self-defeating thoughts, feelings and actions, can help us understand the causes of non-organic disease.  Naturally, assuming the very existence of <a title="psychological laws" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/cycle-of-life/" target="_blank">psychological laws</a> or of a better understanding of the structure of the human mind is to think the unthinkable.  Yet, no science is exempt from thinking the unthinkable – of asking of itself the very simple questions that only children dare ask.  These are the most dangerous questions, the ones that can shake the very foundations of any science.</p>
<h2>Do the same assumptions hold for the body and mind?</h2>
<p>Today, psychiatrists and psychologists need to be asking those questions.  As of yet, the medical field has focused its attention on developing a fairly consistent and increasingly accurate means to classify and measure illnesses, disease and disorders.  In this science of disease, mental illness is analogous to physical illness.  Whether one has cancer or depression, successful treatment demands the elimination of the disease, its reduction or containment.  To be healthy is not to be sick.</p>
<h2>The Limits of a Medical Model based on the Body</h2>
<p>This “medical model” has been helpful, yet it has a built-in limitation: it cannot explain the mind at its most healthy, creative and fullest potential.  In that sense it can not qualify as a natural science of man.  Too eager to establish a study of the mind as a science, psychiatrists never wondered whether the same assumptions hold for the body and mind.  To use Einstein’s analogy, while surgery, allowed the doctor to open up “the watch” and see whether they were right or wrong about what makes it tick, a science of the mind could not.  Psychiatrists had no idea if whether they were on the right track.  Although psychiatry has come a long way and helped many people, perhaps it should have evolved even further.</p>
<h2><a title="DSM" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/life-questions/dsm-classifications/" target="_blank">DSM</a> useful, but too narrow to understand the Mind</h2>
<p>Although pharmacological research has given the medical field increasingly effective and safer medications such as <a title="prozac and mental health" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/life-questions/depression-prozac/" target="_blank">Prozac</a>, the disease model has failed to prove that specific chemical changes in the brain is the cause or the cure for all mental illnesses.  What the field has now is a classification for disease that is helpful for the disbursement of medication, the labeling of “illnesses’” and insurance purposes.</p>
<h2>The Death of the <a title="DSM Classifications" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/life-questions/dsm-classifications/" target="_blank">Disease Model</a>?</h2>
<p>Today this science based on disease is dying — not because it is wrong — but because it presents too narrow a worldview.  It does not attempt to do what all the natural sciences must: describe general phenomena, concepts or abstractions, which explain a wide variety of (human psychological) experiences.  To do so one must return to the challenge offered by <a title="Jahoda" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/science-of-happiness/" target="_blank">Jahoda</a> to develop a model of Positive Mental Health.</p>
<p>The <a title="lifetrack" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/about/lifetrack-positive-mental-health/" target="_blank">Lifetrack model of positive mental health</a> described on this website is one such attempt (<a title="life purpose" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/life-purpose/" target="_blank">insights Lifetrack</a>), but is certainly not the only model possible.  In this respect, all models are imperfect and wait further testing (<a title="objective subjective" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/objective-subjective/" target="_blank">objective subjective</a>) by patients to be refined and improved.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nathalie Leiko Ishizuka.  Mentors who led her to explore an understanding of healthy human beings, a science of health, criteria for health models, defining health and happiness, and a personality model based on health (Lifetrack). Her interest in interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the mind and applying assumptions about healthy human beings to a variety of disciplines including Olivier Williamson's 2010 Nobel Laureate in Economics.  The Japan crisis, individual and national transformation. <a href="https://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/2010/10/11/nathalie-ishizuka/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color:#444444;line-height:24px;font-size:16px;"><a href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/nathalieprofile1.jpg"><img class="alignleft" title="Nathalieprofile" src="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/nathalieprofile1.jpg?w=200&amp;h=300" alt="" width="200" height="300" /></a></span>Nathalie Leiko Ishizuka enjoys thinking and writing about happy human beings, a <a title="science of health" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/life-way/" target="_blank">science of health</a>, <a title="criteria for health models" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/science-of-happiness/" target="_blank">criteria for health models</a>, <a title="defining happiness" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/" target="_blank">defining happiness</a>, <a title="quantifying happiness" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/fear-of-the-unknown/" target="_blank">quantifying happiness</a>, states of <a title="cycle of life" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/cycle-of-life/" target="_blank">inner wellbeing</a>, and the structure of healthy optimal human minds.  She has applied <a title="psychology and international behavior" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/international-behavior/" target="_blank">Lifetrack assumptions about healthy human beings</a> to a variety of disciplines including to the 2009 Nobel Laureate in Economics.</p>
<p>Nathalie has spent over 18 years of learning and writing about the mind and how <a href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/about/yukio-ishizuka/" target="_blank">Dr. Yukio Ishizuka</a>&#8216;s positive mental health approach (a Harvard trained Japanese psychiatrist and her father) transforms personality (see how <a title="why Lifetrack workds" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/objective-subjective/" target="_blank">Lifetrack works</a> and insights on <a title="life purpose" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/life-purpose/" target="_blank">Life Purpose</a>).</p>
<p>After working several years with Dr. Yukio Ishizuka, in 1995 her desire to extend assumptions about healthy human beings to other fields including economics, organizations and <a href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/applications/international-affairs/" target="_blank">international affairs</a> lead her to complete the <strong>Master’s</strong> program on<strong>Law and Diplomacy</strong>, and an <strong>MBA</strong>.</p>
<p>As a graduate student, Nathalie Ishizuka applied the health concepts (called Lifetrack) to both the firm and the <a href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/applications/nations/" target="_blank">nation-state</a>. A number of <strong>Harvard Business School</strong> students preferred Ishizuka’s application of Lifetrack concepts to the firm over the assigned reading of <em>The Road Less Traveled</em>. The <strong>Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School</strong> published her working paper dealing with Lifetrack concepts and <a href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/applications/negotiation/" target="_blank">mediation</a>. Ishizuka’s work on <a href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/applications/economic-integration/" target="_blank">psychology and the GATT</a> (now WTO) resulted in a correspondence with Arthur Dunkel, former head of the World Trade Organization. Her work, “Lessons from Preventive Health to Preventive Diplomacy,” received the attention of former U.N. Secretary General Boutros-Boutros Ghali and that of the office of Kofi Annan, winning also the Eisaku Sato Memorial Essay Award from the U.N. University in Tokyo.</p>
<p>Accepted in the Ph.D. program at Berkeley in <strong>Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations</strong>, she told her professors at Fletcher she would go there to apply an assumption on healthy human beings to <a title="oliver williamson" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/international-behavior/oliver-williamson/" target="_blank">Oliver Williamson</a>’s (recipient of 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics) theory of the firm.</p>
<p>It is at Berkeley that she met a new mentor, Dr. Len Duhl, who at the early age of twenty-one, headed Mental Health in the United States.  In May of 1998, the <strong>School of Public Health</strong>, introducing her to work with the <strong>Menninger Foundation</strong>, proposed her name for an <strong>NIMH</strong> fellowship.  “I greatly admire the Menninger brothers, and yet it was too early for such work,” said Ishizuka.  “I came to apply a psychology based on healthy human beings to organizations and economics, but something was missing.  I needed to test models through organizational experience, to go far beyond my conceptual knowledge.”  Greatly admiring Oliver Williamson and Len Duhl, she agonized, but left academia, following the man she loved to Paris and picking up an MBA during her stay.</p>
<p>Enjoying work with innovative individuals, companies, entrepreneurs, engineers, and scientists, she founded a small innovative company to teach herself about promoting health through entertainment and technology.  “The idea that inspired me is far too big for me,” says Ishizuka, “but, sometimes things don&#8217;t work out for a reason.  Perhaps it will surface elsewhere.”</p>
<p>&#8220;I am not an expert in highly specialized fields, but when I lack the answers or the expertise, I am good at finding, meeting, and working with those who do,&#8221; says Ishizuka.</p>
<h2>My mentors in many fields have taught me much about the human mind, about happiness and how to create innovation across disciplines.  Technology is a tool, not an ends.</h2>
<p>By helping individuals enjoy the process of their own creation, she believes she can create far more change than on her own.</p>
<p>Nathalie&#8217;s inter-disiplinary approach integrating the psychology of <strong>individuals</strong>, <strong>organizations</strong>, and the <strong>nation state</strong> has lead her to work with individuals from many fields and to receive the George A.Plimpton Fellowship for the study of social, economic and political institutions.</p>
<p>She has created the <a title="positive mental health foundation" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/" target="_blank">Positive Mental Health Foundation</a> site to promote quality information on health, happiness and reduction of human suffering.  While the focus of this site is on individual health, applications to other fields can be found in the section<a title="applications psychology of health" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/international-behavior/" target="_blank">applications of a psychology of health</a>.</p>
<h2>New Focus Japan Crisis</h2>
<p>Her current focus is on the <a title="Leiko Ishizuka" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/2011/08/16/leiko-ishizuka-japan/" target="_blank">Japan crisis</a>.  (Nathalie), also called <a title="Leiko Ishizuka" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/2011/08/16/leiko-ishizuka-japan/" target="_blank">Leiko</a> by her Japanese friends, is working on an article with, Dr. <a title="paul briot" href="http://inspirationart.org/about/">Paul Briot</a>, Ph.D. in philosophy and  a Belgian essayist, on using the crisis as an opportunity for positive change.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve met and worked with brilliant, talented, and profound people in all sectors, says Ishizuka, including my father.  And yet, never an individual that has moved me to put all else aside and to focus. Never an individual as inter-disciplinary, modest, knowledgable and spiritual.   Then again, the Japanese crisis may offer us one of the greatest challenges we have seen in a long time.  And one of the greatest opportunities.&#8221;</p>
<p>Past academic interests include applying Lifetrack assumptions about the healthy mind to <a title="organizational behavior concept" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/international-behavior/organizational-behavior-concept/" target="_blank">organizations</a>, <a title="international behavior nations" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/international-behavior/nations/" target="_blank">nations</a>, <a title="japan" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/international-behavior/japan/" target="_blank">Japan</a>, <a title="oliver williamson" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/international-behavior/oliver-williamson/" target="_blank">economics</a>, <a title="negotiation" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/international-behavior/negotiation/" target="_blank">negotiation</a>, <a title="crisis management" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/international-behavior/crisis-management/">crisis management &amp; diplomacy</a>,<a title="economic integration" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/international-behavior/economic-integration/">economic integration</a>, <a title="war crisis health" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/international-behavior/war-crisis-and-mental-health/" target="_blank">war/crisis/health</a>, <a title="international affairs psychology" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/international-behavior/international-affairs/" target="_blank">international affairs</a>, <a title="econometric modeling mind" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/international-behavior/econometric-modeling/" target="_blank">econometric modeling and the mind</a>, and <a title="political science psychology" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/international-behavior/political-science/" target="_blank">political science</a>.</p>
<p>Attracted to life, to learning, and to pushing an understanding of the healthy mind further, she believes innovation comes from the cross-road of disciplines.</p>
<p><strong>Nathalie Leiko Ishizuka</strong> is married to a French man (who like her mother has no need of theories on happiness), has two children and lives in Brussels, Belgium where she pursues her vocation of writing and teaching a psychology of health.  She works with scientists, engineers and many others in a variety of fields.</p>
<p>Nathalie received her <strong>M.B.A.</strong> from Hautes Etudes Commerciales (<strong>HEC</strong>), <strong>M.A.L.D.</strong> from the <strong>Fletcher School of Law &amp; Diplomacy</strong> (administered in cooperation with Harvard), and a B.A. <strong>Political Science, </strong>Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude, <strong>Amherst College</strong>.  She participated in the winter <strong>Harvard Law Negotiation Program</strong>.  She is a member of <strong>SCWBI</strong> and enjoys capturing movement in watercolor.</p>
<p>For an excerpt on applying an assumption about healthy human beings to the Nobel Laureate in Economics (2009) read <a title="olivier williamson" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/international-behavior/oliver-williamson/" target="_blank">Oliver Williamson</a>’s theory of the firm.</p>
<p>For a lighter read, see her book OTHER based on Health and Happiness for children and parents who dare to be different  <a href="http://www.natsays.com/">www.natsays.com</a></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Yukio Ishizuka, A Japanese Harvard trained psychiatrist presents a new model of Health and Happiness.  His background in psychiatry, East-West thought, McKinsey, Mergers and Acquistions, as well as important mentors such as Dr. Taro Takemi, Jack Ewalt and others inspired him to question DSM Model, and define and quantify a personality model of health that fulfills the psychologist Maria Jahoda's 6 criteria for Models of Positive Mental Health <a href="https://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/2010/10/11/dr-yukio-ishizuka/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/yukioprofileweb3.jpg"></a>Dr. Yukio Ishizuka was born in 1938 in Hakodate, Japan.  He experienced WWII as a child and grew up during the American occupation.  It was a time of cross-fertilization of ideas of East and West.</p>
<p>In 1961, he entered <strong>Keio Medical School</strong> in Tokyo, where he taught himself English and founded the <strong>Japan International Medical Student Association</strong> (JIMSA) with the support of Dr. Taro Takemi—the long-standing President of the Japanese Medical Association and a well-respected physician and nuclear physicist.  Upon his graduation from Keio, Ishizuka informed Dr. Takemi of his plans to pursue post-graduate training in the United States.  “You should not return to Japan,” advised Dr. Takemi.  Yukio Ishizuka understood that he was being set free.</p>
<p>In 1965, the young graduate left Japan to complete a rotating internship at <strong>Jefferson Medical College Hospital</strong> in Philadelphia.  The following year, he was one of 25 physicians accepted for residency in psychiatry at the <strong>Massachusetts Mental Health Center of Harvard Medical School</strong>.  Elated, Dr. Ishizuka took a trip to Europe on a two-week discount ticket, spending much of his savings in the process.  During this trip he fell in love with a French woman, Colette, who would follow him to the US several months later, marry him, and inspire much of his work.</p>
<p>Towards the end of his residency in Boston, Harvard Professors <strong>Elvin Semrad</strong> and <strong>David Riesman</strong> encouraged Dr. Ishizuka to undergo further training in psycho-analysis.  Dr. Ishizuka briefly considered going to Mexico City to study under <strong>Erich Fromm</strong>.  Unconvinced, however, that psychoanalysis could enable people to become healthier and happier, he left psychiatry and was hired by <strong><a title="McKinsey Dr. Yukio Ishizuka" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/international-behavior/organizational-behavior-concept/" target="_blank">McKinsey</a></strong>, and international business consulting firm.  After several years of consulting for McKinsey in Paris, Amsterdam, Toronto, and New York, he did mergers and acquisitions.  It was during his fourth year of mergers that one of his work colleagues became depressed.  Dr. Ishizuka’s rewarding experience helping his friend led him to return to the field of psychiatry in 1976.</p>
<p>Having been taught to approach complex problems as a whole by defining and measuring ‘objectives’ critical for organizational survival and success, he returned to his own field eager to understand the existing criteria for positive mental health.  Instead, he found a growing list of mental diseases and disorders (Diagnostic Statistic Manual of Psychiatry).  Whether one suffered from anxiety or depression, successful psychiatric treatment demanded the elimination, reduction, or containment of disease.  To be healthy is not to be sick.  There was little if anything on positive mental health, well-being, and happiness.</p>
<p>At that time, Dr. Ishizuka remembered the work of the American psychologist <a title="Maria Jahoda" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/science-of-happiness/" target="_blank">Maria Jahoda</a>, who in 1958 published “Current Concepts of Positive Mental Health.”  The monograph introduced guidelines for the evaluation of models of positive psychology.  Unfortunately, in 1976 little work had followed.  No model of positive psychological health was developed or tested with patients.  It was his mentor, Dr. Jack R. Ewalt, the man who was in charge of the study by Jahoda, who pushed him and others not to give up on health.  As Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Ewalt continued to challenge his students to question prevailing medical doctrine and conceptions on health by learning directly from patients, rather than using their own words to define and treat illness.</p>
<p>Dr. Ishizuka, drawing both on the <strong><a title="Japan international behavior" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/international-behavior/japan/" target="_blank">East</a></strong><a title="Japan international behavior" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/international-behavior/japan/" target="_blank"> </a>and the <strong>West</strong>, his experience in <strong>psychiatry</strong>, and most importantly, his <strong>patients</strong>, developed a<strong> </strong><strong><a title="science of health" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/life-way/">science of health</a></strong>.  That paradigm incorporates both an understanding of the mind in distress and optimal well-being.  Over the years, he used and tested the model with different nationalities and people from all walks of life.  Rather than examining stress, disease, and illnesses, Ishizuka asks different questions of his field: What is the objective of therapy?  <strong><a title="what does it mean to be well" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/" target="_blank">What does it mean to be well?</a></strong> How do we <a title="measure wellbeing" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/fear-of-the-unknown/">measure wellbeing</a> as a part of a <a title="cycle of life" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/cycle-of-life/" target="_blank">cycle of life</a>?</p>
<p>The model of human personality and experience that he developed incorporates man’s <strong>search for self</strong>, the <strong>need for intimacy</strong> and the <strong>quest for achievement</strong>.  It also incorporates peak positive and negative experiences and an understanding of physical health.  The tripod model has withstood the demanding criteria put forth by the American psychologist Maria Jahoda in 1958 on “<a title="Jahoda" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/science-of-happiness/" target="_blank">Current Concepts of Positive Mental Health</a>” for the creation of new models of health defined in positive terms.  Dr. Ishizuka’s work helps us to build health far beyond a previous best level of health, happiness and optimal adjustment.  Working to overcome a <a title="fear of the unknown" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/fear-of-the-unknown/" target="_blank">fear of the unknown</a>, he has defined and quantified the subjective nature of wellbeing and one working model of positive mental health and human personality (<a title="objective subjective" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/objective-subjective/" target="_blank">objective subjective</a>).</p>
<p>Dr. Ishizuka’s has been using, refining, and <a title="testing model of positive mental health" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/objective-subjective/" target="_blank">testing the model of positive mental health</a> with <strong>over </strong><strong>2000 patients</strong> in the last <strong>35 years</strong> of his daily practice.  With a good sense of humor, a great sense of balance, and over <strong>40,000 session hours</strong> examining millions of graphs on health and happiness, he has <a href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/approach/happiness-defined-quantified/" target="_blank">f</a>ine tuned a <strong><a title="science of health and wellbeing" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/life-way/" target="_blank">science of health and well-being</a></strong>.  His approach on healthy human beings has been presented to numerous fields including <a title="economic man" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/international-behavior/oliver-williamson/" target="_blank">economic man</a>, w<a title="war crisis health" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/international-behavior/war-crisis-and-mental-health/" target="_blank">ar/crisis/health</a>, <a title="national health" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/international-behavior/nations/" target="_blank">national health</a>, <a title="Japan Yukio Ishizuka" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/international-behavior/japan/" target="_blank">Japan</a> and <a title="organizations Lifetrack" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/international-behavior/organizational-behavior-concept/" target="_blank">organizations</a>.</p>
<p>Today through his busy private practice, he continues the work that Dr. Ewalt incited him and other residents to undertake.  He hopes that insights that arose during <a title="lifetrack therapy" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/lifetrack-press/" target="_blank">Lifetrack</a> therapy can contribute to each person’s <a title="life purpose" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/life-purpose/" target="_blank">life purpose</a> ; the experience of much higher levels of self, intimacy and meaningful achievement.   Through this website and future books he hopes to share with other psychiatrists, psychologists, practitioners, academics, and most importantly the general public.</p>
<p>Dr. Yukio Ishizuka graduated from <strong>Keio University Medical School</strong>, Tokyo, Japan in 1964.  He completed his residency in <strong>P</strong><strong>sychiatry at Mass Mental Health Center, Harvard Medical School</strong> in 1969.  He is the founder of <strong>Japan International Medical Students Association</strong> (JIMSA), which received the coveted <strong>Japanese Health Culture Award</strong> in 2007 by the Minister of Japanese Health at the Japanese Imperial Palace. Happily Married for 44 years with three children, he is also a member of the Salmagundi Club of N.Y. as a resident <strong>artist</strong>.</p>
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Dr. Yukio Ishizuka, a Japanese Harvard trained psychiatrist who left psychiatry to work at McKinsey (management consulting) and later mergers and acquisitions, returns to his field with a new question: what does it mean to be well?   Explore individual and organizational excellence and wellbeing.<br />
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<h2><a href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/ocean1.jpg"></a>Happiness and Health</h2>
<p>Happiness means different things to different people.  Some seek it above all else, others believe it will arrive by accident.</p>
<h2>The Aspiration for Inner Happiness</h2>
<p>Most of us wish to be free from conflict, suffering, struggle or pain.  Many aspire to be happy, to go beyond pain and experience positive peaks of wellbeing.  Of course happiness means different things to different people.</p>
<h2>Defining <a title="Happiness and Health" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/" target="_blank">Happiness and Health</a>?</h2>
<p>Inner health in the Lifetrack model is defined as positive peaks of peace, friendliness, physical well-being, happiness and mastery.  They are inner states but can also be accompanied by their opposites: anxiety, anger, physical symptoms, depression or psychosis.</p>
<p>As we attempt to increase the positive peaks in our life, negative peaks will also arise. That is normal and to be expected.  Positive and negative peaks are not self-exclusive. With the good can come the bad and vice-versa.  With a loving relationship can come its loss or termination, with the achievement of a goal can come disappointment or a new goal to replace the old one.</p>
<h2>Accept the Inevitable Negatives and Increase Positives</h2>
<p>To be happy, we have to <strong>accept</strong> the inevitable negatives in life as we continue to <strong>increase</strong> our experience of positive peaks.   We do this by being fully aware of the <a title="self definition" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/self-definition/" target="_blank">self</a>, being present in our <a title="love definition" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/love-definition/" target="_blank">intimate relationships</a> and by meaningful <a title="work definition" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/work-definition/" target="_blank">achievement</a>.  When we successfully increase positive peaks while accepting the inevitable negative peaks, we can maintain longer states of well-being.</p>
<h2>Definition of Wellbeing:</h2>
<p><strong>Positive peak</strong> : Positive Peak experiences (within a given rating period)</p>
<p><strong>Peace </strong>:  Feelings of peace, relaxation and safety<br />
<strong>Friendliness</strong> : Friendly, positive feelings toward those around you<br />
<strong>Physical Wellbein</strong><strong>g</strong> : A feeling that you are healthy and strong<br />
<strong>Happiness</strong> :  Feelings of happiness and contentment; a feeling of being fulfilled<br />
<strong>Mastery</strong> : Confidence and optimism; a feeling that you are master of your own fate</p>
<p><strong>Well-being</strong>: Peace, Friendliness, Physical Well-being, Happiness and Mastery</p>
<h2>Definitions are Stepping Stones to Experience Health</h2>
<p><a href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/rock.jpg"></a>Do not get caught up in definitions.  Your definition of happiness may be different from someone else’s.</p>
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<p>In inner health, it is your experience that counts and not a definition.  Definitions are stepping stones to the experience itself.   They are only a useful beginning, and can not substitute the experience.</p>
<h2>To help individuals experience happiness and health the Lifetrack positive mental health approach contributes:</h2>
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<li>Definition of Spheres that contribute to building <a title="psychological wellbeing" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/cycle-of-life/" target="_blank">Psychological Well-being</a> and Health in Positive Terms: Self, Intimacy &amp; Achievement</li>
<li><a title="quantification positive mental health" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/fear-of-the-unknown/" target="_blank">Quantification of Positive Mental Health</a> allowing one to track the subjective inner experience of Health and Well-being</li>
<li>Self rating providing individuals with a handle on the subjective factor that determines happiness and well-being; instant graphs and feedback available</li>
<li>Active advocacy role for Positive Mental Health by therapist or coach (<a title="objective subjective" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/objective-subjective/" target="_blank">objective subjective</a>).  The therapist or coach gives feedback on self-ratings and reinforces gains, placing setbacks into perspective</li>
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<p>The Lifetrack model of positive mental health  presented on this site meets all the criteria for models of Positive Mental Health (<a title="science of health criteria" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/science-of-happiness/" target="_blank">science of health</a>) proposed by the renown psychologist Jahoda in 1958.  Since the Lifetrack model can explain the mind both in distress and well-being it is a useful model for the sick, the well and everyone in between.</p>
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<h2>Opt in for more on Health and Happiness</h2>
<p>Use the resources on our site to build, fortify, and develop each sphere of life (<a title="self definition" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/self-definition/" target="_blank">self definition</a>, <a title="love definition" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/love-definition/" target="_blank">love definition</a> and <a title="work definition" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/work-definition/" target="_blank">work definition</a>) far beyond a previous best or optimal level.  Opt in to our newsletter and also our blog.  Read our section a Science of Health (<a title="life way" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/life-way/" target="_blank">life way</a>), Criteria for Health Models (<a title="science of happiness" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/science-of-happiness/" target="_blank">science of happiness</a>), Happiness Defined? Quantified?  (<a title="cycle of life" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/cycle-of-life/" target="_blank">cycle of life</a>),  Happier? (<a title="fear of the unknown" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/fear-of-the-unknown/" target="_blank">fear of the unknown</a>),  Why Positive Mental Health Works (<a title="objective subjective" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/objective-subjective/" target="_blank">objective subjective</a>), Insights (<a title="life purpose" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/life-purpose/" target="_blank">life purpose</a>), Applications (<a title="international behavior" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/international-behavior/" target="_blank">international behavior</a>).</p>
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<p>What does it mean to be well?  For a positive definition of health please download the article (3MB) on <a href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/lifetracktherapy-web7.pdf">Lifetrack therapy</a> by Dr. Yukio Ishizuka published in Psychiatr J. Univ Ottawa, Vol. 13, No. 4, 1988.</p>
<h2>Lifetrack Positive Mental Health and Your Happiness:</h2>
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<li>Insight into <strong><a title="subjective happiness" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/cycle-of-life/" target="_blank">subjective</a></strong><a title="subjective happiness" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/cycle-of-life/" target="_blank"> happiness </a>or spheres of psychological life that contribute to health including <a title="self definition" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/self-definition/" target="_blank">self</a>, <a title="love definition" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/love-definition/" target="_blank">intimacy</a>, <a title="work definition" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/work-definition/" target="_blank">achievement</a>, <a title="well-being" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/" target="_blank">well-being</a>, <a title="stress and anxiety" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/symptoms-of-stress-and-anxiety/" target="_blank">stress</a>, physical health, the <a title="objective subjective" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/objective-subjective/" target="_blank">objective subjective</a> experience of health, and <a title="life purpose" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/life-purpose/" target="_blank">life purpose</a>.</li>
<li>A <strong>method</strong> to monitor the inner experience of happiness (subjective nature of happiness) in spheres that promote health (self, intimacy and achievement).</li>
<li>A method to increase positive peaks of peace, friendliness, physical wellbeing, happiness, mastery.</li>
<li>The reduction of negative peaks or stress (anxiety, anger, physical symptoms, depression, psychosis) while building psychological health.</li>
<li>The capacity to welcome crises (aggravation of symptoms) as opportunities to make breakthroughs and overcome a <a title="fear of the unknown" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/fear-of-the-unknown/" target="_blank">fear of the unknown</a> (including happiness).</li>
<li>Freedom from the stigma of ‘mental illness,’ and the empowerment to build and sustain one’s own health, happiness, and psychological well-being far beyond a previous best level of adjustment.</li>
<li>Insights on human defenses against intimacy and how to become far happier and closer in the most important couple relationship.</li>
<li>Transformation and growth of personality (one’s self, intimacy and achievement) spheres through increased closeness to the most important person in your life (when single<a title="find love" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/love-definition/find-love/" target="_blank"> find love</a>,  or how to develop an important relationship, if desired).</li>
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<h2><a title="find love" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/love-definition/find-love/" target="_blank">Breakthrough Intimacy</a></h2>
<h3>Intimacy as a Route to Personality Transformation</h3>
<p>The Lifetrack model of positive mental health transforms existing personality through ‘breakthrough intimacy, (a breakthrough in one’s closest most intimate relationship).</p>
<p><a href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/im-co.gif"><img title="breakthrough intimacy" src="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/im-co.gif" alt="" width="540" height="312" /></a></p>
<p>Breakthrough Intimacy helps individuals reach and far exceed a significantly higher level of happiness and well-being in their closest and most important relationship (spouse or equivalent) and affects all spheres of life including a formidable breakthrough in a person&#8217;s sense of self and work.</p>
<h2><a title="criteria for models of health" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/science-of-happiness/" target="_blank">Criteria for Models of Health</a></h2>
<p>The Lifetrack positive mental health model withstands the demanding criteria put forth by the American psychologist <a title="Maria Jahoda" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/science-of-happiness/" target="_blank">Maria Jahoda</a> in 1958 on “Current Concepts of Positive Mental Health&#8221;.  Jahoda produced these criteria under the direction of Dr. Jack R. Ewalt, the former Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.</p>
<p>The Lifetrack positive mental health model is a new paradigm in the <a title="science of health" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/happiness-and-health/life-way/" target="_blank">science of health</a>, well-being, human personality, and happiness.  Dr. Yukio Ishizuka has developed and tested it in his daily practice with patients, helping thousands of individuals build and surpass a previous best level of happiness, well-being and optimal adjustment.</p>
<h2>The Same Health Model for All</h2>
<p>By placing health and disease on a continuum, rather than viewing them as two separate poles of human experience, the Lifetrack positive mental health model helps those suffering from psychological distress, those who are well, and all those falling somewhere in between.  It is equally appealing to those with borderline personality disorders and individuals at their healthiest most creative form.</p>
<p>Success is not the absence of disease, but the attainment of an optimal level of health, several times over our previous best sense of health and happiness.</p>
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<h3>Is the Goal of Lifetrack therapy <a title="happiness" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/life-questions/happiness/" target="_blank">happiness</a>?</h3>
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<h3>What about <a title="positive psychology" href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/life-questions/the-positive-psychology-approach/" target="_blank">Positive Psychology</a> and Lifetrack?</h3>
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Happiness and Health, Psychological Adjustment, Optimal Adjustment, Life Questions, Stress Techniques.<br />
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Three spheres of basic human needs (Self, Intimacy and Achievement). Examine happiness and health, self definition, work definition, love definition, stress types.<br />
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A Japanese Harvard trained psychiatrist presents a new model of Health and Happiness. Explore a science of happiness, the cycle of life, life purpose, objective subjective, stress types, and a life way that integrates both East and West.<br />
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		<title>Where Health and Entertainment Meet</title>
		<link>https://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/2010/05/27/where-health-and-entertainment-meet-a-new-irressistible-series/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathalie]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Today’s busy adults and curious kids need to be entertained. They are not going to be found pondering over health pamphlets, working through a stress management program, or reading self help books, unless they already have a life changing problem and are in real pain. By then its often too late. The divorce has happened, the kids are hanging out with the wrong crowd or addicted to drugs, and one’s job has become so stressful that you don’t sleep well at night,” says author and illustrator, Nathalie Ishizuka.  <a href="https://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/2010/05/27/where-health-and-entertainment-meet-a-new-irressistible-series/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/im000039.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-374" title="Health and Entertainment" src="http://positivementalhealthfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/im000039-e1274952167455.jpg?w=225" alt="New Irressistable Series for Children and Adults" width="225" height="300" srcset="https://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/im000039-e1274952167455.jpg 960w, https://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/im000039-e1274952167455-225x300.jpg 225w, https://positivementalhealthfoundation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/im000039-e1274952167455-768x1024.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px" /></a></p>
<p><strong>A New Irressistible Series</strong></p>
<p>“The Nat Says Series provides busy adults and kids with a better understanding of <strong>optimal mental health</strong>, how to <strong>fortify</strong> it and improve it– all while being <strong>entertained</strong>.”</p>
<p>–<strong>Len Duhl, Professor of Public Health at Berkeley &amp; Pioneer of WHO Healthy Cities Project in Europe</strong></p>
<p><strong>Busy Adults &amp; Curious Kids</strong><br />
“Today’s busy adults and curious kids need to be entertained. They are not going to be found pondering over health pamphlets, working through a stress management program, or reading self help books, unless they already have a life changing problem and are in real pain. By then its often too late. The divorce has happened, the kids are hanging out with the wrong crowd or addicted to drugs, and one’s job has become so stressful that you don’t sleep well at night,” says author and illustrator, Nathalie Ishizuka. “Psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers can all do their part in helping us pick up the pieces, but somehow we have to help ourselves before things get that bad.”</p>
<p><strong>Don&#8217;t Wait Until Things Fall Apart</strong><br />
Rather, than waiting until the pieces fall apart, Ishizuka wants to entertain and educate people before problems arise. Hence the birth of an entertaining illustrated health series, <a href="http://www.natsays.com">Mom Says, Dad Says, Nat Says: Other</a> that reads much like the St. Exupery’s The Little Prince, but with a different message. The book is about optimal health, what we wished our Mom had told us, what our Dad may not have known, and what our own head and heart might still have difficulty grasping. Unless, like the characters in the book, your Mom has a ‘savoir vivre’ that is larger than life, your Dad an internationally renown Harvard trained psychiatrist on health, and you like the author Nat, has spent years trying to integrate both your Mom’s heart and your Dad’s head.</p>
<p><strong>Enjoy Being Outside the Box</strong><br />
This heartwarming illustrated book is for busy adults and kids who have felt picked on (and who hasn’t), or constrained by a label (their own or someone else’s). Child psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and teachers will also get a lift from its freshness. Through the surprising coping strategies in the book, being different, can suddenly become a formidable stepping stone to health.</p>
<p><strong>Nathalie Ishizuk</strong>a is a Franco-Japanese American author and illustrator of Mom Says, Dad Says, Nat Says: Other who has spent over 15 years writing about a model of health and happiness. Her innovative interdisciplinary approach integrating the psychology of individuals, organizations, and the nation state has lead her to work with people from many fields and to receive the George A. Plimpton Fellowship for the study of social, economic, and political institutions.</p>
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