Optimism and laughter, while enjoyable in their own right, bring benefits like health, longevity, and a decrease in stress. You may also know that a positive attitude can be cultivated, meaning even if you're not naturally prone to bright-side looking, you can actively change that.
October is Positive Attitude Month, which reminds you to make the effort to cultivate the attitude that can bring you greater health, happier relationships, and more luck in life.
It's true that we are all born with a certain "set point" for some traits, such as openness, agreeableness, extroversion, conscientiousness, an neuroticism (known as "The Big Five" in the world of psychology), and these inborn personality tendencies influence our levels of optimism, positivity, and happiness.
Positive Psychology research has found, we can alter our habitual thought patterns by actively changing the way we choose to see things.
If we challenge negative thinking patterns, for example, and replace them with more positive patterns, the new, more positive patterns become our habit, and we can actually create a new set-point for happiness.
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle."
~Plato
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle."
~Plato
We are all fighting a great battle in our lives as we seek more happiness and avoid pain therefore, we need to adopt attitudes that buoy us in turbulent moments. Having a positive outlook is a tool you can use to motivate yourself to find solutions. Learned helplessness is an attitude to avoid because you are going face daily difficulties. Deal with the problems as they arise and do not waste energy worrying about the future or regretting the past. Life unfolds in moments and our power to act is in the now.
Positive Attitude Resources From Elizabeth Scott:
Positive Attitude Resources From Elizabeth Scott:
