A person with positive thinking; who
mentality anticipates happiness, health and success. Also he believes that he or she can overcome any
obstacle and difficulty.
Positive
thinking just means that; your approach to unpleasantness in a more positive
and productive way. You can think the best; is going to happen, not the worst.
Positive thinking often starts with self-talk.
An endless stream of unspoken thoughts that run
through your head is called as self talk. These automatic thoughts can be
positive or negative. Self-talk must be come from logic and reason.
It is never from misconceptions with
lack of information. If your thoughts are mostly positive, you're consider as
an optimistic otherwise you should be a negaitive one that is called
as pessimistic person.
- The health benefits of positive thinking: Positive thinking provides some health benefits.
1.
They are
2.
Increased Life Span –
3.
-Lower Rates Of Depression –
4.
Lower Levels Of Distress –
5.
Greater Resistance To The Common Cold –
6.
Better Psychological and Physical
Well-Being –
7.
Better Cardiovascular Health –
8.
Reduced Risk Of Death From
Cardiovascular Disease.
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2). Identifying
negative thinking
Some common forms of negative self-talk
include:
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· Filtering. You magnify
the negative aspects of a situation and filter out all of
the positive ones.. Personalizing. When
something bad occurs, you automatically blame yourself.
Catastrophizing. You automatically anticipate the worst.·
Polarizing. You
see things only as either good or bad not neutralise
3). The process of positive thinking
The process, to turn negative thinking
into positive thinking is not a simple
activity it need some sort of time and practice
i)
Identify areas
to change. If you want to become more
optimistic and engage in more positive thinking, first identify areas of your
life that you usually think negatively about, whether it's work, your daily
commute or a relationship.
ii)
Check
yourself. If you find that your thoughts
are mainly negative, try to find a way to put a positive spin on them.
iii) Be open to humor. Give
yourself permission to smile or laugh, especially during difficult times. When
you can laugh at life, you feel less stressed.
iv) Follow a healthy lifestyle. To exercise for about 30 minutes on most days of the
week. Exercise can positively affect mood and reduce stress. Also want to follow
a healthy diet to fuel your mind and body and learn techniques to manage stress.
v)
Surround
yourself with positive people. Make
sure those in your life are positive, supportive people you can depend on to
give helpful advice and feedback. Negative people may increase your stress
level and make you doubt your ability .
vi) Practice positive self-talk. . Be gentle and encouraging with yourself. If a
negative thought enters your mind, evaluate it rationally and respond with
affirmations of what is good about you. Think about things you're thankful for
in your life.
Here are some examples of negative
self-talk and how you can apply a positive thinking twist to them:
Putting positive thinking into practice
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Negative self-talk
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Positive
thinking
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I've never done it .
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It's an opportunity to learn something new.
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It's too complicated.
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I'll tackle it from a different angle.
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I don't have the resources.
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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I'm too lazy to get this done.
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I wasn't able to fit it into my schedule, but I
can re-examine some priorities.
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There's no way it will work.
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I can try to make it work.
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It's too radical a change.
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Let's take a chance.
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No one bothers to communicate with me.
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I'll see if I can open the channels of communication.
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How
to Increase Positive Thinking in Your Life
1. Meditation —Meditatation helps people to also built valuable
long-term skills.
2.
Writing Excercise— This stu
The first
group wrote about an intensely positive experience each day for three
consecutive days. The second group wrote about a control topic.Three months
later, the students who wrote about positive experiences had better mood
levels, and experienced fewer illnesses.
3. Play —. We schedule
meetings, conference calls, weekly events,like wise Schedule time to
play into your life. Schedule time for play and adventure so that you can
experience contentment and joy, and
explore and build new skills.
Exercise
1. List happy thoughts.
1. Take 30 minutes and list all
the happy
thoughts you can think of. Just use a piece of paper and make a long
list. Give yourself a good 30 minutes.
2. List the people and places
that make you happy: good friends, favorite vacation spots, childhood
memories and more.
3. List things that make you
happy: puppies, babies, the smell of a new car, a lobster dinner, a day of
relaxing by a pool.
4. List anything and everything
you can think of that makes you happy.
2. Be aware of negative thoughts and feelings. For the entire week, pay attention to your thoughts.
Whenever you catch yourself thinking about or feeling anything negative, sad or
stressful, label that thought “unhappy.” Don’t worry if you have a lot of
unhappy thoughts and feelings throughout the day. It's perfectly normal. Just
pay attention and label them.
After a few
days, the number of negative thoughts and feelings often decreases. Some more
tips for accentuating the positive:
- Don’t judge yourself.
- Don’t worry: it is perfectly normal to have all sorts of strange
thoughts. We usually don’t pay so much attention to them.
- Combine this task with smiling.
- Force a smile on your face as you bring your happy thought
to your mind. This will help erase the effects of the negative thoughts.
- Be sure to remind yourself to do this task throughout the day.
- Don’t let a day go by without engaging with your negative thoughts
and substituting positive
ones.
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Strengthen your
memory for positive information:We
can able to increase your positive just by memorizing lists of
positive words. That's right. It's because when you force your brain
to use positive words frequently, you make these words more accessible,
more connected, and more easily activated in your brain.
i)
Strengthen your brain's ability to work with positive information.
ii)
Strengthen your brain's ability to pay
attention to the positive.
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Think positive, but not too much, and think negative
when you need to.But thinking positive isn't always the best
response. Negative thoughts sometimes have benefits too.
b)
7. Practice gratitude
One way to
train your brain to focus on the positive it to practice gratitude. Gratitude is when we feel or
express thankfulness for the people, things, and experiences we have.
c)
8. Savor the good moments
Too often we
let the good moments pass, without truly celebrating them. We can savor by
holding onto the emotions you're feeling in positive moments.
d)
9. Generate positive emotions by watching fun videos,
listening music
The
broaden-and-build theory suggests that experiencing positive emotions builds
our psychological, intellectual, and social resources, allowing us to benefit
more from our experiences.
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