State of mind is the particular condition that someone is in at a specific time.
It also means your mood or outlook.
It also means your mood or outlook.
What is your state of mind and what affects it?
How can you have a better state of mind?
Avoid negative sources, people, places and habits.
Simple as that?
You are at the whim of everything and everyone, if you let it be.
You are at the whim of everything and everyone, if you let it be.
Avoiding all negativity is not possible.
How do we accomplish being in the world and avoiding the negative?
Do you have to be a Pleasant Pollyanna all the time to do this?
No, but you need to know yourself and what affects your state of mind.
People react differently to situations, people and places.
What bothers one person does not even affect another.
Your job is to figure yourself out.
I love the TV show, Criminal Minds. It was a show our whole family would sit down and watch together. After a few years of watching this show I noticed that afterwards I felt agitated, unsettled and disturbed. I worried and became hyper vigilant about safety. One example of this is that I would have my daughter talk to me while walking to her car after a night practice. She couldn't hang up until she was locked in. I decided to stop watching Criminal Minds because it interfered with a positive state of mind for me, but not anyone else in my family.
What about that Negative Nellie you work with or even live with? How can you temper how they impact your state of mind? Learn about negativity bias and how it can reduce your happiness level. The definition from The Happiness Journey book states, "our inclination to favor negative information over positive information."
A spoonful of tar can spoil a barrel of honey; but a spoonful of honey does nothing for a barrel of tar.
-Russian Proverb
Our state of mind fluctuates according to our daily influences. To function in this negative based world we need to retrain our brains. You can use meditation, reflection, prayer, quiet time or distractions as tools to raise awareness and change how your brain thinks.
To change your state of mind there are techniques and resources to emphasize positivity:
- Adding up all the things that go right in the day
- Gratitude journal
- Relabel negative events
- Three good things exercise
- Read books in positive psychology field
- Allow good feelings to last
- Reframe the situation
- Lean towards optimism
- Take The Happiness Journey Class Register for The Happiness Journey class
Keep depositing into your emotional bank account with love, kindness and patience. Begin...by investing time and energy into yourself and your relationships.
Learn what affects your state of mind.
The state of mind I try to maintain:
Things are always working out for me.
All is well.
Life is good.
If you think you can do a thing
or think you can't do a thing,
you're right.
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