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    Positive Thinking: Living with a more Positive Outlook on Life
    Positive Thinking: Living with a more Positive Outlook on Life
    Positive Thinking: Living with a more Positive Outlook on Life
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    Positive Thinking: Living with a more Positive Outlook on Life

    By AYA CHANTE

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    Kickstart your day positively!

    If you feel your daily life is a blur, that you aren’t achieving your goals or excelling in your tasks and that everything is mundane and slow - it’s time to change that attitude because the only thing that is stopping you from enjoying a fulfilling, successful and worthwhile life is your negativity!

    Yes, negative attitudes and mindsets is one of the biggest obstacles that disable creative thinkers, movers and shakers from achieving success beyond their wildest dreams. If you want to change the way you look at the world, engage in healthy activities, increase your productivity, strengthen your relationships and pave the way to higher success, then the first thing you need to do is change your perspective and outlooks on how negative and positive emotions play their different roles in our lives. 

    Inside, you will find:
    • How positive and negative thinking helps build our character
    • Changing perceptions on failure
    • How faith and belief are a central part of how we see the world and think
    • How to Build your own Treasure Map!
    ... And much, much more!

    Other Benefits of owning this book:
    • Gain the positive mindset to improve outlook
    • Learning how to leverage failure and pain – and use it to achieve success
    • Being stress-free and living a healthier and more productive life

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAya Chante
    Release dateFeb 17, 2017
    ISBN9781386833765
    Positive Thinking: Living with a more Positive Outlook on Life

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      Book preview

      Positive Thinking - AYA CHANTE

      Introduction

      DID YOU EVER REALIZE that it is much easier to be happy than it is to be unhappy? Go ahead. Think about it. While you are reading this, just think about the many things that happened before you opening this book and reading. What happened when you woke up? Did you get a kiss from your partner? How did your coffee taste this morning? How is the weather outside like now? All these things that happened to you today, what made you happy and what made you sad?

      If you listed ten things today and 7 of them were things that made your happy and three made you unhappy, sad, frustrated or moody, then most likely you were grateful, and you were positive.

      The thing is, many of us would prefer to be happy and positive rather than be unhappy and negative. And it is that simple to be positive and happy. Also, positive thinking is above and beyond just being happy or displaying a cheerful and upbeat attitude.

      It also creates and establishes value in your life and relationships, and it also helps you build skills that benefit you longer than your smile can take you. Barbara Fredrickson, a positive psychology researcher from the University of North Carolina, published a landmark paper on the impact of positive thinking on work, health and general wellbeing.

      Here’s a little brief of Barbara’s research:

      What Can Negative Thinking do to your Brain?

      Our brain is programmed to respond to negative emotions by shutting off the world around us and limiting the options we see around us. For example, if you get into a fight with your sister, your emotions and anger might consume to the point where you react adversely - you can’t think about anything else. Or for instance your coffee this morning spilled on your shirt, and this creates a domino effect of everything going wrong in your day, and you get so stressed out that you find it hard to start or do anything because you’ve lost your focus. Or if you are supposed to complete a project but you didn’t, you start to feel bad about it and all you think is how irresponsible you are and that you are lazy, and you lack motivation.

      The point is, our brain shuts off from the outside world and relies on the negative emotions of fear, stress, and anger. Negative thoughts and emotions prevent us from seeing other options, solutions or choices that are around us.

      What Can Positive Thinking do to your Brain?

      Barbara Fredrickson also explains how positive thinking manifests in our brain. She explains with an experiment where research subjects are divided into five groups, and each group is shown a different video clip. The first group was shown clips that created feelings of joy whereas the second group was shown clips that created contentment, the third was the control group that had images of no significant emotions and were neutral whereas group four had clips that created fear and group five had clips that created the feelings of anger.

      Participants were then asked to imagine themselves in situations that these same emotions would come about and write down their reactions to it. Participants that viewed images of fear and anger had the least responses or reactions whereas participants who saw joy and contentment had more reactions.

      The bottom line is, if you experience positive emotions you will see more possibilities in life. Positive emotions broaden our possibilities and thinking, thus opening up more options for us in facing issues, crisis, problems, and solutions and so on.

      In the next few chapters, we will discuss how we can

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