Living With Positivity

21 September 2015

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Living With Positivity

"Positive anything is better than negative nothing."

- Elbert Hubbard

Living with positivity is how I strive to live my life. Thinking with positivity is how I choose to see the world. I am a firmly believer that positive thinking leads to positive outcomes. 

I feel like we, as individuals, determine the course of our lives.. I mean, in the sense in which we ultimately decide how we live our lives through our ways of thinking. From experience, I've learned that thinking negatively actually leads to negative outcomes. And, this makes sense. When you think so low about certain people or situations/events, you expect (or at least wait for) bad things to happen. So, you are basically looking for the bad. And, this attracts the negativity. 

This is the same with thinking positively. When we choose to see things in a positive manner, we soon have positive thoughts, and these positive thoughts lead to our positive outcomes. When I choose to see various situations in a positive light, I soon begin to appreciate and notice the good out of every situation. 

Personally speaking, I want to live a happy life, and I found positivity helps A LOT. So, like Hubbard said... I would rather have positive anything than negative nothing. 

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I'm linking up with #blogtember hosted by Bailey @ Brave Love Blog. Today is DAY 21 of the challenge. Today's prompt: A favour quote/expression and how it has impacted you. If you happen to stop by, please don't hesitate to leave a comment and a link back to your blog! I would love to come and meet a lot of you in the challenge!

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To Happiness, Here I Come

02 November 2013

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To Happiness, Here I Come

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As a psychology student, one of the courses I am currently enrolled in is Social Psychology. This week we learnt about Romantic Relationships and Emotions.  As I am preparing my textbook notes for this weeks upcoming test, I currently came across a study about emotions.  What I learnt is just so helpful to apply to myself, and in doing so I want to help others become aware of their feelings as well.

Disclaimer: I am not a student with a psychology degree. I am a student studying psychology, and sharing the studies and findings that I come across in my textbook.

This one section I was making notes for posed the question, What is happiness? And in the search of exploring what the answer to this question is, I read about cultivating happiness.  This is something I found to be extremely interesting as I can apply these concepts on myself, in hopes of becoming a more positive and happier person.  

There were two different strategies for cultivating one's happiness, and I decided to share one of those strategies with you all.  One of the strategies mentioned was that by living your life with positive emotions, it is the clearest pathways to life satisfaction (Gilovich et al., 228).  With that being said, a study was conducted where individuals were told to count 5 blessings once a week.  These individuals reported higher levels of happiness when compared to individuals who didn't count their blessing (Gilovich et al., 228). 

Reading this particular study wanted me to test this out on myself.  There is no ultimate hypothesis I am trying to prove, I personally just want to count my blessings and see if this eventually makes a difference in my life. 

So bloggers, I present to you my 5 Blessings for this Week:

1. I am thankful for waking up every day this week, to share my life with everyone around me. 

2. I am thankful for the home that I live in.  I may take this for granted all the time, but without my home, I wouldn't have somewhere warm to sleep in at night. 

3. I am thankful for my health.  This week nothing bad occurred in regards to my health, which is an indication that I am getting stronger and healthier. 

4. I am thankful for the education I am receiving.  Although I may get tired and lazy to go to school, but I think I am beginning to realize all the amazing things I can learn and how to apply them to myself, or even to other concepts and subjects. 

5. I am thankful for the food.  This week, and the past week, I kept complaining about how hungry I was. Looking back, I ate more than enough food and so there was really nothing to complain about.  I ate, I am healthy and receiving the nutrients I need. I am thankful for that. 

I challenge you all to write a WEEKLY list of just FIVE blessings you have.  It is not a tough challenge, but I already feel the positivity I am sharing with you all just by writing 5 simple blessings. 

Enjoy the rest of your weekend xo, 

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References:

Gilovich, Thomas, Dacher Keltner, and Richard E. Nisbett. Social Psychology. 3rd ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006. Print.

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