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“Pursuing Your Own Happiness” -

Online Psychology Talk

n the 4th of June, an open admission with one’s life.
online psychology talk for Kuen Cheng
Ostudents was held through Zoom from 3 After carrying out the physiological test
pm to 4 pm. The topic was “Youths Pursuing Their relating to what the attendees felt about their
Own Happiness”. The speaker was Dr Chong Sue own lives, Dr Chong talked the attendees through
Ling, a child and teen psychologist as well as the things that make one happy in one’s life to cope
coach of the school’s Psychology Club. She would with the stress and negative issues surrounding
be sharing about the importance of students them. These questions are a great chance for one to
pursuing their happiness in life. This talk aimed to really understand what kind of things really bother
help students keep an active personality and know them and figure out the right way to maintain one’s
their own value to maintain a healthy and happy mental health and practice gratitude. Methods
lifestyle with friends and family. such as exercise, setting goals, or even talking to
others have been found to be great for our mental Aesthetics - Online
She started the talk by asking attendees a health according to scientific research.
simple question, “What is happiness?”. She then
explained that according to psychologists, the During this talk, Dr Chong mentioned Journaling Class
definition of happiness and feeling blessed can “feeling blessed in your life will help you to create
be split into two parts; which are one’s opinion of a vision for your future.” Feeling blessed is not just
one’s life and one’s feelings and reactions towards short term happiness. It is because being grateful
one’s daily life. She elaborated with two questions will change one’s perspective on seeing one’s goals, ournaling as an art has been popular among answer some questions concerning design, layout
to make it easier to understand, “Are you satisfied failures, and other things in one’s life, which leads teenagers for a while for its aesthetics. In an and aesthetics.
with your life?” and “Are you happy or unhappy to a more positive lifestyle. Jeffort to introduce the art of journaling to
the majority of the time?”. She also added that more students, the Western Calligraphy Club Afterwards, she got to work on the first of
the difference between feeling blessed and feeling All and all, Dr Chong shared with the held an online journaling class on 5 June 2020, her two spreads: a fashion-based one. Through
happy is that the former lasts longer. After this attendees that both happiness and bliss are defined hosted by club president Ms Leong Jing Ern from assembling her journal spread, she gave tips to
detailed explanation on happiness, she gave the by themselves, and not by others. The only way Sr2ComA. the attendees on how to journal. She emphasised
attendees a small quiz, titled “Are You Satisfied to obtain long term happiness is to be content that colours used should be similar in scheme
With Your Life?”. about their lives and use the right way to readjust First, she answered some questions or warmness. She also encouraged versatility in
themselves when facing obstacles. Let’s all use this collected from an Instagram poll a day before equipment use, and suggested that calligraphy
For each question, attendees had to rate time to really understand ourselves and give us a the class. On the question of notebook usage, she be written on separate tracing paper to ensure
seven statements on a scale of 1 to 5 points, with 5 break and think about what truly makes us happy recommended completely foldable ones, as well its beauty. Above all, she stressed that journaling
representing strong agreement with the statement. in life. as ones with rings for easy page refilling. One should be a low stress activity, and that one should
These points would be totaled upon completion. could find these at shops like Muji or Midori for not journal if one does not feel up for it.
In the seven statements, statements 3 and 4 are cheap. She also showcased some of her spreads to
contrasting, so the more one agrees with them, the
fewer points are totaled. From the totaled results, Reported by:
the higher the points, the more satisfied one is Lew Yuen Teng Sr3ComA
Tan Qing Lin Sr2ScB
Lai Siang Ching Sr1ComC
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