Improving Your Brain Power

How Thought Improvement Can Help You To Be More Productive

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Always Think Positive

If you really think about it, you would agree with the theory that positive thinking can make life a lot better for you. When you look at the events of your life as positive, you are naturally going to look and feel happier. You will be better equipped to throw off stressful occurrences, and every aspect of your life will go better for you. Of course, even if you make a strong effort to be positive, you are going to have days when nothing seems to go right for you. Things will happen in your life that you will have to make a huge effort to accept with aplomb.

Some people seem to be what has been dubbed ‘eternal optimists’. They are unrealistically optimistic, to the point where an earthquake would make them smile and say, “Oh, well… I needed to redo the garden anyway, and now I won’t have to paint the house in the spring.” People who go through life like this have also been called ‘Pollyanna’ after the character in the children’s book and movie by the same name.

The ability to think positive is actually a science. Researchers have claimed that when people think positive, it has a placebo effect on the body. At one time, this placebo effect was thought to occur in test studies because the human brain was intelligent enough to fool test subjects into thinking that the sugar pill they took in lieu of the ‘real’ medication had actually helped them.

New studies have shown that when people swallowed a sugar pill, thinking it was actually a helpful medicine that would make them feel better, their body did a wonderful thing. It produced several chemicals that imitate the type of healing that would have occurred had the person actually taken the ‘real’ medication.

This experimental study can tell us a lot about how our brain power works for our greater good. When someone is sure that they are going to feel better and get well, the brain responds to those feelings and actually improves our feelings and heals us! Do you know someone who is always crowing about how healthy they are? These findings could be the reason why this is so.

Research has also discovered that those who look at life through optimistic eyes live longer than the cynics of the world. Their death risk is an astonishing 55% lower than that of the average person.

Replacing Negative Thoughts With Positive Thoughts

If you sail through life believing that good things are going to happen to you, it can make a big difference in the outcome. The same is true for people who are trudging through life with a constant negative attitude. They expect bad things are going to happen in their world, and nine times out of ten, they do.

The difference in these two ways of thinking makes a powerful statement to our brains. It is a cumulative statement in that the effect builds up the longer it is experienced. Having a negative attitude can spill over into other aspects of your life, and spawn bad habits that can be detrimental to your health and to your career.

Your personal relationships can also be affected by a negative attitude. Can you recall the last time you had a conversation with someone who sports a negative attitude? It is probable that you felt a bit negative when the conversation was over, no matter how chipper you may have felt before it began.

Imagine how glorious life would be if you could train yourself to never have another negative thought! Positive thinking can affect the people around you almost as much as it can help you. Remember the little jolt of goodwill you felt when a stranger was kind to you? Wouldn’t you rather make people feel good about themselves and the world, rather than negative?

The Art Of Positive Thinking Is Not Lost

When you are in a bad mood, it is likely that you are quick to blame something or someone for your sullen disposition. If you would admit the truth to yourself, you would see that you and you alone are responsible for your moods. Not the weather, not the argument with your spouse or partner, and not the fact that those pants you just bought last month would not even come close to fastening this morning!

You can change and improve your life so much by training your mind to think positively instead of negatively. No longer will the small annoyances in life make you grouchy, and the big problems will become much easier for you to handle with positive thinking.

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Improving The Way You Think