{"id":16543,"date":"2013-01-25T06:29:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T13:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=16543"},"modified":"2017-04-04T15:51:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T22:51:39","slug":"creative-prompt-192-flourish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/creative-prompt-192-flourish\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Prompt #192: Flourish"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>flour\u00b7ish<\/h3>\n<div>\/?fl?riSH\/<\/div>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div>Verb<\/div>\n<div>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>(of a person, animal, or other living organism) Grow or develop in a healthy or vigorous way, esp. as the result of a particularly&#8230;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div>Noun<\/div>\n<div>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>A bold or extravagant gesture or action, made esp. to attract the attention of others.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Take 5 minutes to do any kind of artistic response: poem, doodle, quilt, pastel, pencil. ANYTHING counts. Don\u2019t judge yourself or second guess yourself. There are no rules; just do it!<\/p>\n<p>Post the direct URL (link) where your drawing, doodle, artwork is posted (e.g. your blog, Flickr) in the comments area of this post. I would really like to keep all the artwork together and provide a way for others to see your work and\/or your blog.<\/p>\n<p>The Creative Prompt Project, also, has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/aqcpp\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr group<\/a>, which you can join to\u00a0 post your responses. I created this spot so those of you without blogs and websites would have a place to post your responses.<\/p>\n<p>Flourish (2006 movie)<\/p>\n<p>In <a title=\"Positive psychology\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Positive_psychology\">positive psychology<\/a>, <b>flourishing<\/b> is \u201cto live within an optimal range of human functioning, one that connotes goodness, generativity, growth, and resilience.\u201d<sup id=\"cite_ref-Frederickson.2C_B.L..2C_.26_Losada.2C_M.F._1-0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flourishing#cite_note-Frederickson.2C_B.L..2C_.26_Losada.2C_M.F.-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup> Flourishing is the opposite of both <a title=\"Pathology\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pathology\">pathology<\/a> and languishing, which are described as living a life that feels both hollow and empty.<\/p>\n<p>Flourishing is a <a title=\"Positive psychology\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Positive_psychology\">positive psychology<\/a> concept which is a measure of overall life well-being and is viewed as important to the idea of happiness.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Frederickson.2C_B.L..2C_.26_Losada.2C_M.F._1-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flourishing#cite_note-Frederickson.2C_B.L..2C_.26_Losada.2C_M.F.-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-Dunn.2C_D._S..2C_.26_Dougherty.2C_S._B._2-0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flourishing#cite_note-Dunn.2C_D._S..2C_.26_Dougherty.2C_S._B.-2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup> Many components and concepts contribute to the overall concept of flourishing and the benefits of a life that can be characterized as flourishing. It exists as an umbrella concept because it includes and incorporates many other concepts in the positive psychology field such as cultivating <a title=\"Virtue\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virtue\">strengths<\/a>, <a title=\"Subjective well-being\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Subjective_well-being\">subjective well-being<\/a>, positive work spaces, etc. (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flourishing\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>an extra touch<\/p>\n<p>Flourish Magazine &#8211; resources for a happy, healthy, beautiful life<\/p>\n<p>to blossom or grow<\/p>\n<p>what do you need to flourish<\/p>\n<p>Flourish and Blotts<\/p>\n<p>this will help you flourish<\/p>\n<p>start flourishing<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>flour\u00b7ish \/?fl?riSH\/ Verb (of a person, animal, or other living organism) Grow or develop in a healthy or vigorous way, esp. as the result of a particularly&#8230; Noun A bold or extravagant gesture or action, made esp. to attract the attention of others. Take 5 minutes to do any kind of artistic response: poem, doodle, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/creative-prompt-192-flourish\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Creative Prompt #192: Flourish&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[402],"tags":[79,311,72],"class_list":["post-16543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-402","tag-creative-prompt","tag-creativity","tag-group-project"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}