positivity
Living a healthy lifestyle includes positive thinking, positive emotions, positive behaviors, like kindness and generosity, and positive inspiration. I look forward to bringing you pages that create positive feelings of hope, happiness and serenity.
How do you gain positivity?
Personality traits, such as optimism and pessimism, can affect our health and wellbeing. Optimism relieves stress while pessimism does the opposite.
The health benefits of positive thinking include increased life span, lower rates of depression and pain, better heart health, reduced risk of death from cancer, respiratory conditions and other infections, and better coping skills.
Negative thoughts can filter into our minds when something positive happens to us and instead of being thankful for the success, we feel we could have done better and forget about the positive aspects. Another area is blaming yourself for something that happened or using the words “I should” since it causes self-blame. Being a perfectionist is another negative trait since you must keep up with impossible standards.
How to Deal with Negativity in the News: Every day we see and hear negative news on the coronavirus, politics, climate change and the economy. That can create a lot of anxiety and depression. This PeopleOneHealth article gives you ways to cope with this issue.
We all can develop optimism by being open to humor, following a healthy lifestyle, surrounding yourself with positive people and practicing positive self-talk.
Substitute Negative Thinking to Positive Thinking. Examples:
Neg: I’ve never done it before
Pos: It’s an opportunity to learn something new
Neg: It’s too complicated
Pos: I’ll tackle the problem differently
Neg: No one bothers to communicate with me
Pos: I’ll see if I can open the channels of communication
Practicing positive self-talk can be the first step to optimism and less self-criticism.
Personality traits, such as optimism and pessimism, can affect our health and wellbeing. Optimism relieves stress while pessimism does the opposite.
The health benefits of positive thinking include increased life span, lower rates of depression and pain, better heart health, reduced risk of death from cancer, respiratory conditions and other infections, and better coping skills.
Negative thoughts can filter into our minds when something positive happens to us and instead of being thankful for the success, we feel we could have done better and forget about the positive aspects. Another area is blaming yourself for something that happened or using the words “I should” since it causes self-blame. Being a perfectionist is another negative trait since you must keep up with impossible standards.
How to Deal with Negativity in the News: Every day we see and hear negative news on the coronavirus, politics, climate change and the economy. That can create a lot of anxiety and depression. This PeopleOneHealth article gives you ways to cope with this issue.
We all can develop optimism by being open to humor, following a healthy lifestyle, surrounding yourself with positive people and practicing positive self-talk.
Substitute Negative Thinking to Positive Thinking. Examples:
Neg: I’ve never done it before
Pos: It’s an opportunity to learn something new
Neg: It’s too complicated
Pos: I’ll tackle the problem differently
Neg: No one bothers to communicate with me
Pos: I’ll see if I can open the channels of communication
Practicing positive self-talk can be the first step to optimism and less self-criticism.