Positive thinking can be a pretty powerful in transforming your life, but not everyone is convinced. In many cases, people think it is modern day mystical mumbo-jumbo or associated with self-help scams.
Despite that, can positive thinking improve your life?
Positive thinking is synonymous with optimism, or the mindset of looking at things in a positive manner. For example, when something happens, there are different ways to interpret the event. If you lose a career opportunity, an optimist may be able to see that as an opportunity to look for another opportunity. An optimist may be able to see that it isn’t great to lose out, but there are more opportunities to be tapped.
Some of the benefits of positive thinking include:
- Reportedly lower levels of pain & distress
- Greater sense of well-being emotional and psychological well-being
- Reportedly greater sense of physical well-being.
- Less likely to experience depression.
- Being able to cope better during times of stress, anxiety, and hardship.
It can go beyond those benefits as well. Positive thinking can make you more open to new opportunities entering your life and can aid in you being able to see those new things as opportunities. Someone who tends to think more negatively may dismiss new experiences as troublesome or a waste of their time, but a positive thinker can see that they can learn from this new experience and may even benefit later from it. At the very least, it could potentially lead to something beneficial in the future.
In your romantic and personal relationships, negative thinking and pessimism can very often end up sabotaging your relationships. It can cause you to second-guess what people are doing, and can induce doubt, fear, and unnecessary anxiety. When you are positive and can engage in positive thinking, your are more open to accepting that people in your life are who they are and doing what they need to do. There isn’t a need to second-guess or doubt.
At work, your positive thinking can contribute greatly to your confidence in your own abilities and the outcome of your efforts. While you may not have gotten a promotion now, the opportunity may have given you the means to understand how you can work towards the promotion next time.
Positive thinking also makes you a more personable and likable person. People around you will be drawn to you for your optimism and positivity, and this, in turn, may end up opening new avenues to develop, learn, and grow.
While we can say that optimism is more natural for some people than others, positive thinking is also a skill that can be learned by anyone. This skill can be learned, nurtured and developed, even if you are a natural pessimist.
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