Positive psychology is the scientific study of human prosperity and an applied approach to optimal functioning. It is one of the important disciplines of psychology as a whole. It has been defined as the study of strengths and virtues that enable individuals, communities and organisations to drive. It is the study of optimal human functioning. It aims to discover and promote the factors that allow the human beings and the civilisation to thrive. Positive psychology is grounded in the belief that people want to have and lead a peaceful and meaningful as well as a fulfilling life. They want to cultivate what is best in them and to enhance their experiences and perception of love, work and play.
This branch of psychology is intended to enhance and supplement the study old general psychology and not to replace it. It seeks to emphasize the importance of scientific study and principles to find out how things go right. It represents a commitment to the sources old psychological wellness such as positive emotions, positive environments, positive experiences and human strengths and virtues. Contrary to the psychological practices before the inception of positive psychology which focused only on mental illness positive psychology strikes out a balance to this previous approach by suggesting that we must also explore and study people’s strengths as well as their weaknesses. In advocating this focus on the strengths it no way lessens the importance and pain associated with human