Benefits of Thinking Positively

Hello! This blog post will be discussing the benefits of honking positively each day. If you incorporate positive thinking into your daily routine, it will make this new year a great one! Spend some time in your day for affirmations!

Ways to think positively:

• Write down what you are grateful for

• Spend time in front of the mirror and saying affirmations to yourself

• Eliminate all negativity from your life

• Surround yourself with positivity

• Practice gratitude

1st Benefit of Positive Thinking:

When a person practices positive thinking each day, it limits the risk of the individual developing depression. It has been reported that one in three women and one in five men are diagnosed with depression. By incorporating positive thinking into your daily routine, your happiness levels will be higher and the levels of distress and pain will decrease. This will also lead to a person with better psychological and physical well-being.

2nd Benefit of Positive Thinking:

It has been reported by doctors that positive thinking can reduce the risk of death from heart disease, cancer, and other types of illnesses. One-third of the people that developed an illness and had a positive mindset while fighting through it were less likely to experience a heart-attack and were more likely to have a longer lifespan. Although it is not clear why having a positive attitude can prevent dying from an illness, doctors are able to state that there is a connection between a person being positive and their health.

3rd Benefit of Positive Thinking:

If an individual spends time with verbalizing affirmations about themselves each day, it can have a variety of benefits on the individual. Some of these benefits are a boost in confidence, reduce stress, improve mood, and helps overcome the negative thoughts that commonly appear in the brain.

How to Avoid Negative Thinking:

Negative thinking can be avoided by writing down your thoughts and feelings in a journal, replacing the negative aspects of your life with positive ones, replacing the negative thought with a positive one, and not believing all of the intrusive thoughts that come to mind since they are not facts.

I hope that this blog post has helped someone and was informative. Let's make this year year a positive one!!! Please follow improvedcare_ on Instagram to get notified when I post next! Thanks for reading!

Resources:

"Are Positive Affirmations the Key to a Better Outlook?" Geisinger, 4 Apr. 2023, www.geisinger.org/health-and-wellness/wellness-articles/2023/04/04/18/54/the-power-of-positive-affirmations.

Firestone, Lena. "Thinking Positively: Why You Need to Wire Your Brain to Think Positive." PsychAlive, 18 Oct. 2018, www.psychalive.org/thinking-positively/.

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"The Power of Positive Thinking." Johns Hopkins Medicine, Based in Baltimore, Maryland, 1 Nov. 2021, www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/the-power-of-positive-thinking.