Would You Like To Rewire Your Brain for Happiness?

Would You Like To Rewire Your Brain for Happiness? The first steps in balancing the negativity bias & feeling happier. Kate Maria Pennell Feb 17 Thank you Pixabay How we start and end our day can have a powerful impact on our well-being and productivity. Protein breakfasts, exercise, cold showers — all recommended things we can do. However, this little step towards better well-being is mental rather than physical and doesn’t need any changes in your schedule. I think it’s safe to say that most of us would like to feel more content in our lives. We’d like to be less stressed and anxious, and for our lives to have more energy and meaning. With the pressure of all that we have going on — finances, family, health, 24-hour international news, and a job in there somewhere too — it can feel as though it all drains the life right out of us. That’s what negativity does. Natural negativity. Ironically, scientists now believe that our brain has a natural ‘negativity bias’ that developed to save and improve the lives of our early ancestors. Yet however great automatic awareness and sensitivity to danger are in the bush, it doesn’t improve our modern quality of life on a daily basis. Especially if our goal is move beyond surviving to thriving . Let’s try a little experiment here. Can you remember a particular moment from your youth that still makes you cringe today? Or the best thing that happened to you last week? Which memory felt emotionally stronger or had more detail in your mind’s eye? Often, it is easier to recall the negative memory and we can do so with greater clarity than our positive ones. We store the emotion along with the mental video of the event. They seem to […]

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