6 Reasons to Stay Positve
How about staying positive? In this day and age I find that the majority of people are negative and tend to focus on the parts of their lives that are negative or that they can not change. With everyone being negative all the time, can you imagine all the negativity that we are spewing out into the atmosphere everyday? All that stress and negative thoughts that we are spreading to everyone around us? Now I am not a psychologist or counselor or anything along those lines, but I do have my own experiences that have forced me to think about positivity and negativity. And I have come to the conclusion that leading a life where you try to stay positive is more helpful and fulfilling than leading a negative life. I have come up with a quick list for reasons why I believe you should stay positive.
Here are five important reasons why you should stay positive:
- Positivity and Negativity Affects Your Health
Studies show that positive minds tend to lead healthier lives. Whether it’s because of stress levels or crazy hormones, optimists are more happy and healthy than pessimists. Also, according to some studies, being positive can also help you overcome some diseases and illnesses faster than people who are always negative. According to Psychcentral, a site run by a group of psychologists and psychiatrists, no one knows exactly why positivity helps people recover faster from surgeries or cope better with disease, but studies have shown that is just the case.
2. Stress Levels
On the other hand, people who are negative tend to have higher stress levels and we’ve all heard what too much stress can do to our health. In general, stress is a good thing if you know how to manage it, but too much stress can push you over the top and you can end up hurting yourself, both in physical and mental health.
3. How You Feel
Positive minds see the world a little brighter than others, making those people feel better about life in general. Wouldn’t you just want to see the world in bring colors instead of gloomy days?
4. Problem Management
When you feel good about the world, you are able to tackle your problems with an open mind and are able to feel positive about the outcome of your efforts. Even if they don't work, you are able to try, try, again.
5. Relationships
Whatever attitude we put on does not only just affect us, it affects the people around us. So, if you’re positive you send out rays of sunshine all around you, affecting the people near or close to you. I don’t think anyone wants to hurt the people close to them, but sometimes we do not even noticing it. When we have a negative mindset, little things start to bother us about others and we are more likely to start arguments that strain our relationships. But when you’re positive, you are able to look past people’s faults that annoy you, helping you create and maintain better relationships.
6. Self Image
Lastly, is self image. When we have negative attitudes it seems impossible to think of anything positive about anything, including ourselves. The first target of negative thoughts seem to be directed to our own faults and instead of trying to fix them, we go down a spiral and can only think of how terrible we are. Self image is very important and it is always the first thing to go out the window. With low self-esteem comes many more problems. But these problems don’t have to become a reality if you try to keep positive. With positive minds we are able to find our faults and of think of different ways to fix them, instead of dwelling on them too long.We are able to trust ourselves and our decisions and hold ourselves as valuable people.
Now I understand it is very difficult to stay positive, and I totally agree. We all have those days, weeks, and sometimes even months or years where nothing goes our way. But here are some quick links that I think help and give good ideas on how to stay positive, even in the toughest of times.
I hope this post helps and convinces you to lead a life where you try to stay as positive as you can!
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http://holisticallyfit.com/2013/09/23/weekly-challenge-stay-positive/
http://weheartit.com/entry/group/28910752
http://www.eng.morgan.edu/~mahmud/learning/stress.htm
https://thepracticalpriestess.wordpress.com/2014/11/04/what-a-wonderful-world/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20130409115905-284615-how-to-build-lasting-business-relationships
http://examinedexistence.com/how-to-get-rid-of-negative-self-talk/
Mahvish,
ReplyDeleteWow, I love this post. Living life positively is a difficult thing to do, as you've addressed, but the reasons you used for why you should stay positive are spot on, particularly the one about self image. Isn't it unfortunate that we attack ourselves and the way we are? I actually was on a leadership council last year that did a project called "Project me." We created this project to address self image in the youth of today by doing activities such as quote walls, yoga, finding modifications in pictures of celebrities, and an airplane throw. The one I know people particularly liked was finding where celebrities had had their faces, clothes, and even body parts altered. Even though we idolize celebrities, people still find faults with them. The important message to take away from this activity was that even the people who are apparently "perfect" are not, so, when looking at ourselves, we see faults, but the reality is that we should strive to be our bests selves, not the way society is telling us to be. This was a fantastic post!
This is gold. I often times find myself stewing about my day. For some people, staying positive is really hard but you make it sound so easy! It's great that you showed the benefits of a healthy psychological state of mind. I epically love the links on HOW to stay positive. Knowing is half the battle. We may not always be in control of our brain chemistry but I know that if I can let go of the little things, it really does have a huge impact on my mood. Great post! :)
ReplyDeleteI believe what you are discussing here is an important part of self-cultivation, something I always seem to be bringing up when commenting on our classes blogs. And the conversation about the self becomes very important when talking about positivity because of it's near polar nature in life. In speaking about this outside of states of depression, in consideration of it's nature as a mental disease, being a pessimist or an optimist will rule your life. This is at a more internal level than a spoken level, as even a pessimist may have an internal overriding hope.
ReplyDeletePerhaps I'm rambling a bit. But I think you might say that in the end it's all about taking over your life to allow positivity.