Positive Mental Attitude – Page 2

Stop Sabotaging Your Mood

2011/09/13 Gayle 0

Want to solve a problem? You can improve your problem solving skills by inducing a positive mood. If you can get yourself to a positive mood, you can improve your cognitive flexibility. Sound crazy? A 2010 study in Psychological Science shows that inducing a positive mood can improve one’s cognitive flexibility. The question then is how do you get into a good mood and how do you stay there? Probably if you really thought about it, you could find the ‘trigger’ got most bad moods. Perhaps your spouse spoke sharply to you or you were unable to fit into your favorite outfit due to the five pounds you recently gained. Consider in these examples the role that your thoughts play in all this. It wasn’t the event that was the root of The rest of the story

5 Ways to Overcome Your Happiness DNA

2011/08/31 Gayle 1

Happiness is hereditary, at least in part. Psychologists at the University of Edinburgh and the Queensland Institute for Medical Research in Australia have found that happiness is partly determined by personality traits that are largely hereditary. Words like these are enough to make you give up and decide that happiness is beyond your control or reach. However, the good news is that the genetic part is less than 50%. The rest is up to you. It is all a matter of what you do and how you do it. Here are a few tips that will assist with experiencing an increase in your joy & happiness: 1. Live in the moment – When we are constantly focusing on what happened in the past or worrying about The rest of the story

Do you control your thoughts or do your thoughts control you?

2011/08/20 Gayle 0

“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.” ~ Hugh Downs The world around you may have control of parts of your life. You may have to meet the demands of an employer. Your obligations to family or Church or any number of other organizations may demand your time. Nevertheless, you are the captain of your thoughts. You and you alone control your mental attitude. Will you remain a slave to negative thoughts? Will you become the master of a positive mental attitude? The choice really lies solely in your hands. No one else can control your thoughts. No one can determine your reaction. Napoleon Hill Said ‘When you control your The rest of the story

Are Your Thoughts Ruining Your Life?

2011/03/29 Gayle 0

Do you ever feel like you fall into a convolution spiral of negativity? It is like a tornado that blows through your existence. The negativity may not destroy everything, but at the very least it rearranges and creates havoc from what was the order of your life. It only takes the one little gust of negative to start whirling around in your brain and soon it picks up other negative thoughts, about you, your job, other people, etc etc etc. Then the dark clouds of depression and inactivity arrive. Soon the world seems bleak and unmanageable. The negative attracts more negative until you are a ball of negative energy spreading your unhappiness to the rest of the world. In this negative state it seems impossible The rest of the story

Love you

2011/02/14 Gayle 1

Today is Valentine’s Day. The day we all feel ooey and gooey about love. We celebrate the fact that someone loves us