Positive self
"My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them."
-Mitch Hedberg
-Anthony J. D'Angelo
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." -George Carlin
"Bad Guys"
by Markus Magnusson
is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0
"I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met."
-Herb Caen
"image036" by POPOEVER is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Pick a distraction (Haidt, 2006)-
"There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business."
-Vikram Patel
Barbra Friedriekson created this Happiness measure
that can give an indication of the level of happiness a person is feeling each day and where they can make changes to improve how often they are happy.
"When you're a kid, you lay in the grass and watch the clouds going over, and you literally don't have a thought in your mind. It's purely meditation, and we lose that."
-Dick Van Dyke
Another useful tool to help create a more positive outlook is used in cognitive behavioural therapy. This is the idea that if we challenge the thoughts we are having as they may be distorted then our outlook can improve by creating a more realistic image of our thoughts.
This kind of thought challenging done regularly can reduce automatic negative thinking.
