Fortunately, a positive attitude can be cultivated, with a little practice. Although we are born with temperamental specific trends, the brain is a muscle, and can strengthen the natural tendency of his mind for optimism if you work in it.
While several factors in the optimism and emotional resistance, studies show that cultivate a sense of gratitude can help you maintain a more positive mood State in everyday life and contribute to greater emotional well-being and social benefits. Cultivating gratitude is one of the simpler routes for a greater sense of emotional well-being and it can be achieved in several ways. For the next weeks, try some of the following exercises, and you will notice a significant increase in feelings of gratitude-- you will probably find out more positive things in his life, less stressful or negative events and feelings of housing ' lack,' and have a greater sense of appreciation for the people and things in your life.
When you see the same grumbling about a negative or stressful event in your life, try to think about 4 or 5 related things which we are grateful. For example, when feeling stressed at work, trying to think of several things that you like his work. You can do the same with the stress of relationship, financial stress or other daily annoyances. The more gently reminds of the positive aspects, most easily can be a shift towards gratitude. Many people own cause unnecessary stress to make comparisons. More specifically, they themselves cause stress to do comparisons wrong. Compared only to those who have more, do more, or are somehow closer to its ideals and allow to feel inferior rather than inspiration. In cultivation of gratitude, you have one of two options if you find yourself making such comparisons: you can choose compare to people who have less than (that recalls how truly rich and lucky are), or you may feel gratitude for the people in his life that inspire you. Any road can take the stress and the envy and the closest to feelings of gratitude. One of the best ways to cultivate gratitude is to keep a gratitude journal. Not only are that it combines the benefits of daily with the active adoption of a more positive mindset, left with a good catalogue of happy memories and a long list of things in his life that we appreciate. (It can be wonderful to read during the time that is more difficult to remember what these things). Gratitude journaling is simple; see this article from Journal of gratitude for ideas on ways to keep one.Because habits are usually formed within two or three weeks, will have to actively focus on maintaining the gratitude less as you go, and the attitude of most positive habit (and less stress inducing) will be more automatic. And a greater sense of emotional well-being can be yours.
Sources:
Adler MG, Fagley NS. Recognition: Individual differences in the pursuit of value and meaning as a single Predictor of subjective bien-B eing... Journal of personality of February 2005.
Emmons RA, McCullough me. Counting blessings to burdens: an Experimental investigation of gratitude and subjective well-being in everyday life. Journal of personality and social psychology of February 2003.
