Week 12 EC: Learning by HEART: Negativity to Positivity

This week I read an article in the New York Times by Jane E. Brody, Turning Negative Thinkers into Positive Thinkers. This article stood out to me because I feel like positivity is something that is a hard quality to come by these days. While I consider myself for the most part a generally positive person, I also find myself being a realist, which can be associated with negativity. Often times I don't like to get my hopes up about anything because the reality is your expectations are not always met.

One thing this article pointed out that I like was that in order to exhibit positivity, you don't always have to be positive to be healthy and happy. This is where the realism comes into play for me. Sometimes there are situations where its hard to be positive. But the main point that this article offered was that its the little things that you choose to see as positive really help you gradually, each time, live a happier lifestyle.

This article also said that well-being is a life skill and that the more you practice it, the better at it you can become. I found this to be empowering because it made me think about how you really can choose to be happy. There is no way for your life to be completely positive, but its about how you choose to respond to negatively that starts to turn your life in a more positive direction.

Source: Turning Negative Thinkers into Positive Thinkers

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