Positive attitude brings happiness...How to bring a positive attitude in life

Are you a half-empty or half-full person that shows your attitude towards life. When you see the glass half-full instead of half-empty, it describes you as a positive person and makes you stand out of the crowd. A positive attitude brings happiness and subtleness in your life. However, it is not only restricted to happiness and displaying an upbeat positive attitude. It actually helps in building values and skills in one's life that lasts longer.

Being positive affects your physical and mental health. How mentally strong you are and how do you deal with any challenging situations. It is not magic that your problems will be disappeared but it will help you to come out of any situation or gives you vast thinking to approach any problems in a more creative and productive way.

What Negative Thoughts Bring To Your Life

Let's have a situation, If you are in a fight with someone. Your mind will bring out all the Negative thoughts first as anger, fear and won't allow you to see the other side of the coin. Same way, if you are stressed out with your workload but can't find a starting point thus you get panicked. It happens because your mind is paralyzed with a to-do list. You can't think out of the box, your brain closes the outer world because of the stress. Instead of finding solutions, your mind gets stuck with fear and non-important thoughts. These are negative thoughts which are called 'Slow Poison' too. It can damage your brain and physical health.

Symptoms of having a negative attitude or thoughts are so common to identify. A person who is suffering from negativity can experience headaches, nausea, fatigue, sleeping disorder. A person who is going through this phase can go into depression and loneliness, which can lead to an unhealthy short life span.

That causes certain diseases, which you never thought of––such as-–

• Heart disease (Heart attack or stroke)
• Depression
• Dementia or Mental Illness
• Paralyze (Body and Mind)

What Positive Thoughts Bring to Your Life

Positive thinking turns on the light of possible paths. The best result of being positive is not only to make that moment happy and joyous but it does benefits for the long term.

Let's take the example of two kids. One who plays with his friends in the playground every day. While running he grows his physical strength (physical skill), by playing with his friends and communicating with them improves his social skills and exploring around the world accelerates his creativity.

On the other hand, the one who is a little introvert does not like to share things with other kids and doesn't mingle with anyone. Since he is not comfortable in communicating with people, he eventually stays alone. The scenario slowly turns into a habit that becomes his regular hard-core nature. Being alone leads to hold negative thinking a lot and finally, drags that person into a serious depressive state.

Stay positive is like blessings to the person, which gives him lifetime happiness, even though he is standing at the point of his toughest time in life. That positive attitude teaches him to stay happy and to bring a solution to the problem instead of making the situation worse.

Other benefits of being a positive thinker include:

• Better quality life
• High level of energy
• Better psychological and physical health
• Better management skills in handling and coping with a nut situation 
• Lower rate of depression
• Faster recovery from injuries
• Last but not the least, Longer lifespan

Positivity does not magically disappear all the problems but it teaches you to stay calm in deprivation. It makes problems seem more manageable and helps you to approach hardship in a more positive and productive way.

A positive attitude can be brought into anyone's life by different techniques such as 'Positive Self-Talk' and having 'Positive Imaginations'.

Here are a few ideas of developing positive thinking and attitude in your life. These will help your brain to think positively.

Each day should be a fresh day

Every day of life is different and brings out something new. So, why not we start our day with that freshness and new positive thought. Follow it as a ritual.

Tell yourself something positive when you begin your day, play some happy song or your favorite music and plan to do something new each day. Spread your positivity by giving some compliments to others and doing something nice for someone.

Bring laughs to your life

Life is so unpredictable, it can be sometimes stressful and sometimes it brings happiness. Being Positive is something that keeps you happy even you have a downfall in your life. So, allow yourself to laugh even for small and silly things. Get some time for your kids and laugh with them on silly things. Or, try to get involved with kids around you since they are the best source of laugh and happiness.

Laughing works as a medicine for relieving stress, anxiety, and depression. It also improves coping skills, self-esteem and lightens the mood.

Try to find right in the wrong

Life is full of obstacles and hurdles, there is nothing like a perfect day. You need to make your day perfect by having your focal point to good and right things in every opposite situation, even though they are small.

When you encounter a challenge, it is normal to get a little nervous. However, you need to overcome your fear and find the best way to complete the task. Even though you are failed in finding a perfect way to handle it but the best part of that challenge is your effort, which made you learn something new. If you have given your 100% to solve the problem, you are somewhere near to have a perfect solution.

Practice Gratitude

Learn to become thankful to others; it brings positivity in thinking. When you think about someone who has helped you in any way, it means you are thankful to the person. Try to let them know that you really appreciate their help. Being grateful is a stress-buster that improves self-esteem and foster resilience. Keep a journal to pen down the things you are grateful for, that shows your well-being and optimism.

Think about people, moments or things that bring a big smile on your face. People who are the reason for your happiness and comfort do deserve acknowledgment of their effort. Don't forget to thank your God as well as your pet for the unconditional love they give.

Hold on to positive people around you

Negative and positive vibes are very contagious. If you are being with a happy-go-lucky person, it is going to affect your nature and change your thoughts about life. It will take a U-Turn when you have the opposite surroundings. Have you noticed how a person with a bad mood can upset everyone in the room and turn them down?

So ever, be with a positive thinker who can make you learn that life is good and it's all about happiness. The one who can lift you up and help you see the bright side of the world.

Incline to positive self-talk

We know that we are the hardest critics of ourselves. Sometimes, that can lead people to have negative thoughts about themselves, which would be rigid to shake it off. Don't speak negatively about yourself, not even as a joke. Your body does not know the difference. Words are an energy and cast spell that is why they are called spelling. Change the way you speak about yourself and you can change your life. 

Positive self-talk can be very helpful to change your mindset. Look in the mirror and respond to yourself positively when you have comparative or negative thoughts. For example, you can say, 'I will try or I will try again in a different way' instead of blaming yourself for failing in achieving the goal.

Positive self-talk improves subtleness in your mind that improves the ability to regulate your feeling, thoughts, and behavior under conflicting situations.

Identify the worse behavior of being negative

The idea is to change your thought about yourself to bring positivity to your attitude. Find your areas of feeling low or under-confidence, which invite depressive thoughts in your mind. If you are unable to find them out ask your best friend or your husband or your siblings, they will definitely have some insight to share with you. 

After knowing your lows try to fix them one by one, do not impose displeasing pressure to get rid of habits.

How to think positive when everything goes wrong
Being positive does not mean that you bury all your emotions and feelings. It is the nature of a human being; moreover, it is healthy to become ignoring and dissenting sometimes. Nothing is wrong in feeling low at times but being in deep grieve that leads to depression is what we need to deal with. Sometimes, the lowest points become our strength, motivate us to move on and make positive changes.

Be your own best buddy/friend

When you don't have your best buddy around you who supports you and understands you as much as you know yourself. try to be your own best buddy. Never let yourself down and discouraged, just like you would do for your best friend who needs help. Give yourself a second chance and comfort by saying to yourself that everything is going to be better. In addition, let yourself know that you have a complete right to feel upset or angry in certain situations.

Seek medical help

After trying hard to get rid of your mental stress if you still have trouble controlling your emotions and filled with negative thoughts, don't hesitate to see a doctor such as a psychologist or a therapist.

Open up and talk to them, sharing your problems with them will bring down your stress. You may be benefited from their help.

Relentless negative thoughts can be a cause of the underlying psychiatric condition, which can be turned into severe depression state that requires treatment.

Takeaways

The bottom line of being a positive person is to live and let others live happily. If you are happy in your life and have a positive attitude, people around you would get positive vibes and energy.

Of course, we need to be careful not to fall into the trap of excessive self-praise, which is the other extreme of negative energy. It is about having the right sense of self-esteem and not being self-deprecating thus creating negative energy and in one sense making our negative beliefs about ourselves is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Everyone gets only one life, which needs to be treated special!