Counteract Negative Thoughts by Developing Positive Characteristics

The way we think impacts the way we perceive the world, thereby affecting our actions, our daily living and even our health.  How does your brain work? 

Consider the following personality characteristics expounded upon in this Live Science article: 7 Thoughts That Are Bad For You - and then ask yourself if your perception of the world, viewed through your _________ (fill in the blank) personality is impacting your actions, your daily living, or your health: 

7 Thoughts That Are Bad For You:

1. Stress out easily, prolonged state of stress
2. Gloomy, distressed or inhibited
3. Jittery, highly frazzled 
4. Disorganized or lack of self control
5. Fretting, constantly worried or anxious
6. Lack of meaning or sense of purpose
7. Cynicism, suspicious or mistrustful of others

What if we counteract these negative thoughts by developing more positive characteristics?  You might be surprised at what positive thinking or positive psychology can do for your life:  

1. Relax, meditate, take a walk on the beach and feel the sand between your toes.  Don't take everything so seriously, give up control and take care of yourself instead.
2. Let go once in a while, develop a hobby you enjoy, find something to do so you're not always into everyone's business.
3. Why so nervous?  Be mellow.  Relax, listen to calming, soothing music.  Re-wire yourself to be this way
4. Learn to discipline yourself through repetition, in other words, repeatedly perform the positive characteristic you want to develop in yourself, until you have re-wired your circuits.
5. Use worry constructively - if by worrying you think of something you can do to change the situation - then change it, but stop thinking about it then.  You might not be able to change the whole world, but you can learn to cope with it better.
6.   The purpose of life is to develop a well-balanced and majestic personality.  This means we should be actively pursuing and developing the higher, better, and supreme qualities of ourselves. 
7. Let loose a little, determine in advance whether something is physically or mentally harmful and if it is, stay away, if it's just someone's opinion of a thing, have an open mind and listen - they'll love you for it and who knows, you might even learn something.  The world isn't as scary as we make it out to be. 
   

Life is meant to be lived and experienced - enjoy the journey.