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How to be positive - 6 Positive quotes for life.
To have a positive attitude you need to know that a positive attitude stems from your emotions. Positive and negative emotions. If you want to cultivate a positive attitude and be positive in your life then you need to get to know your emotions. (I know.. Easier said than done… right?)
Did you know that positive and negative emotions play a large role in how our brain processes information?
These emotions work together as messengers to manage challenging situations, and by teaching us how to process other types of emotional information. This means that negative emotions are a good thing because they can help us process conflicting emotions.
Below are some common positive and negative emotions we feel:
Common Positive Emotions: Love, Joy, Satisfaction, Contentment, Interest, Amusement, Happiness, Serenity
Common Negative Emotions: Fear, Anger, Disgust, Sadness, Rage, Loneliness, Melancholiness, Annoyance
To have a positive attitude we need to get to know our emotions. Reynolds writes about ‘name them to tame them’, and how naming emotions can pause our reactivity. She describes this as calming our reactive amygdala (feeling brain) and engaging our frontal cortex (thinking brain).
Learning to pause our reactivity, in any situation, can set us up to be positive in that moment.
Have you ever heard about someone going ‘blind with rage’ or ‘losing their minds.’ This description fits perfectly for what is happening inside your brain. In the heat of the moment, our active/thinking brain gets pushed aside, and the part of our brain that feels takes over completely. That is why when we start to feel an emotion (positive or negative) it’s best to stop, take a deep breath, and try to re-engage the part of our brain that uses logic.
There is a lot of science behind understanding our brain. I know that I first learned about things like this in school, but more recently was reminded when I was reading the book: The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind
This book teaches you about the innermost workings of your child’s brain during their stages of growth and development. They talk about the emotional part of the brain and the logical part of the brain. The emotional part is what most parents get to see daily (aka tantrums, crying, excitement, etc) the logical part of the brain is continuing to be developed until later in life. I could go on about all the things in this book, but if you’re interested you should give it a read!
In all honesty.. I know some adults who could benefit from reading this book and learning how to engage the logical part of their brain when they get swept up in their emotions. (aka think before you act)
I have the Kindle version of this book, and it allows me to highlight certain areas. This allows me to refer back to the information and even take notes when needed.
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Below are 6 quotes about how to have a positive mindset and attitude for life; taken from the book 3-Minute Positivity by Susan Reynolds.
Not everything is going to be rainbows and sunshine, embracing and acknowledging our emotions will help us to live a positive lifestyle.
- If you’re feeling overwhelmed by negative emotions on an almost daily basis, it’s time to use those feelings to identify the areas of your life that need attention.
- Positivity is not about being happy all the time, not about avoiding negative events or feelings, nor about pretending to be a happy positive person.
- Positivity is about becoming your best, authentic self, adopting a growth mindset, loving yourself and others, and acknowledging and managing your true feelings.
- The more you practice positivity, the more it cycles back, doubling, tripling, and quadrupling positive thoughts and positive outcomes.
- Thoughts and emotions trigger the desire for change, and provide the pathway to change-you can use both to wire your brain for increased positivity.
- All emotions serve a purpose.
What this book taught me:
Emotions are neither good nor bad. We need all emotions in order to operate as a true emotional intelligent human being. This book is entry level into being mindful and learning to work with emotions. The title is about positivity, but it doesn’t just talk about being positive all the time. Susan helps to break down different emotions, and how to work with all of these emotions in our daily lives. She created certain journal prompts or questions to ask yourself. Plus, it’s just a quick 3 minutes a day!
Disclaimer: This book can make you have a positive outlook on life. You can learn how to work with what you’re feeling at any given moment to bring your body and mind back to a peaceful state. We can’t be happy every single second of the day, it’s just not plausible nor would we want to be. Our emotions serve to guide us through life, so why not look at all emotions in a different light?
3- Minute Positivity Workbook – Susan Reynolds – On Amazon
To Recap:
Remember, we can’t live a positive life without acknowledging and embracing our emotions (good and bad)
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“All emotions serve a purpose.” – Susan Reynolds
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