The Power of Play: Optimize Your Joy Potential

by Elaine O'Brien, Andrea Seydel

Would you like to experience more happiness and spontaneity in your life? Do you feel life isn’t as fun and exciting as it could be and crave more positivity, closer relationships, and a deeper understanding of what matters most to you? You need to play! In the book, The Power of Optimize Your Joy Potential, you will discover how igniting joy and uplifting experiences through the power of play can transform your life, help you through challenging times and even lead you on a path to appreciation and great fulfillment. Play positively matters. From International award-winning fitness professionals and two leading voices advancing the science of applied Positive Psychology and the art of well-being, Elaine O’Brien, Ph.D., and Andrea Seydel are devoted to sharing the science and ways to enhance your life through play. You will discover valuable cutting-edge research and hundreds of FUNTANEOUS activities created to spark your energy, ease your stress, and increase your happiness. You don’t want to underestimate the power of play. Learn the secret of creating a “play mindset” that sparks meaning, loving connections, mastery, and laughs. In this playbook for grownups, you will learn to “optimize your joy potential,” the capacity to be open to experiences of joy, by harnessing your self-awareness, happy habits, and positive action. It’s vital and in your power to play, learn, move, rest, be in nature, perform, and live with wonder every day. Elaine and Andrea will show you how valuing play safeguards your mental health and is essential to your life.
The Power of Optimize Your Joy Potential is designed to show you how you can have much more fun and be happier and healthier. The Power of Play is a game changer.

208 pages, Paperback

Published November 28, 2022

Reviews

[Shelley · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was ok. I liked Stuart browns book a lot better. The strength of this book was its reflection questions about what kinds of play and people to play with you enjoy, the categorization of types of play, concrete strategies to increase play and the many many examples of play.

[Sharon Danzger · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a joy to read Elaine O'Brien and Andrea Seydel's The Power of Play. The book, which is evidence-based, provides a plethora of small activities to incorporate play into the busiest of lives.

Some of those things that you love doing but often dismiss (like dancing around the kitchen and singing to the music) will now take on a higher priority!

What I enjoyed most about this book is how aligned it is with the author, Elaine O'Brien, who I have the pleasure of knowing personally. She embodies joy and her playfulness is infectious. I watched with amazement as she got a room of over 200 people to get up and dance in a lecture hall! I have to believe her colleague Andrea Seydel is the same.

This delightful book provides many avenues for the reader to be happier, healthier, and more playful in a way that speaks to them!