15 Apr Tips for healthy happy life.
How to Increase Positive Thinking in Your Life and begin to feel
What you can do to increase positive emotions?
Well, anything that sparks feelings of joy, contentment, and love will do the trick.
That said, here are three ideas for you to consider…
- Meditation – Recent research by Barbara Fredrickson a positive psychology researcher at the University of North Carolina and her colleagues has revealed that people who meditate daily display more positive emotions that those who do not. People who meditated also built valuable long-term skills.
- Writing – This study, published in the Journal of Research in Personality, examined a group of 90 undergraduate students who were split into two groups. 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, fewer visits to the health center, and experienced fewer illnesses. (This blew me away. Better health after just three days of writing about positive things!)
- Play – Schedule time to play into your life. We schedule meetings, conference calls, weekly events, and other responsibilities into our daily calendars… why not schedule time to play? Give yourself permission to smile and enjoy the benefits of positive emotion. Schedule time for play and adventure so that you can experience contentment and joy, and explore and build new skills.
Regular positive thinking will help you develop inner peace, success, improved relationships, better health, happiness and personal satisfaction. Positive thinking can be your key to success!