Some people sometimes say: "I wish I was a positive person." To me that's interesting because it sounds like you are either born a positive person or you are born a negative person.
The fact is that people in general are more easily attracted to the negative. That is because our brain handles positive and negative information in different hemispheres. Negative emotions generally trigger more thinking, and also the information is processed more thoroughly than positive emotions. Thus we are programmed to be more easily "negative".
So how come some are positive then, does their brain work differently ? I don't think it does necessarily. It's their choice of thinking that is different and we can all change it. As a matter of fact it is not hard. Instead of letting the emotions control our feelings, we let our thinking control our feelings.
Like for example when you got this big work load on a friday evening. Probably your first emotional reaction was that you got a bit angry. But you started using reasoning, like a positive Sherlock Holmes, you found many silver linings in this situation.
- You have a job, this is definitely not something to take for granted in today's economy.
- It's Friday and it's soon weekend
- You get extra pay 💰 for over time
So in the end were you a more positive person than your colleagues ? Hell yes. But you were so because of the way you handled your emotions. We can all learn this fact. We choose what we feel by choosing what we want our mind to focus on. You can always find something to be positive about !
Very nice and inspirational post and a good start for me on a Saturday morning :) I just opened the curtains and it is a bit cloudy today. So am I going to feel blue today?
Nope - Because every cloud has a silver lining !