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Get Your Creative Juices Flowing!
When you were a child, you were encouraged to release your creativity by drawing, painting, and building sand castles. As you got older, your life got more structured. You were told what classes to take in school and you were told which cubicle space or ...
Positive Mental Attitude (PMA)
Tips on maintaining a positive attitude "For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else." (Sir Winston Churchill) Some people are born with a constantly positive outlook on life, but most of us need to work on ...
Where Do Our Attitudes Come From?
I believe that heredity (the genes that you inherit) havesome part in forming attitudes. However, most importantin shaping them, is the family environment, especially inyour early childhood: the impressionable years up to theage of seven. Also critical ...
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Take a few seconds to close your eyes and imagine that you are putting a slice of lemon into your mouth and chewing on it. Did your mouth water? This is just one example of how the mind can affect the body - simply thinking about something can trigger a physical reaction. If your body reacts just thinking about chomping on a lemon imagine what happens when you experience chronic, negative emotions. It's time for a heart to heart. Did you know that anger can increase a man's risk of coronary heart disease? Specifically, full-blown, outward and uncontrollable expressions of anger, aka "losing it" put men at risk.
If you are a woman, you don't get off the heart hook. The risk for women is more subtle, indirect expression of antagonism. Hostility, defined as an attitude of ill will and a negative evaluation of people and events is another set of emotions that puts us at risk for heart disease.
Pessimism is also associated with heart health. People who constantly blame themselves for the things that go wrong and believe that nothing good will come their way are more likely to develop heart disease that people with a positive attitude. The mind set of pessimism is linked with higher levels of anger, anxiety and depression which are other risk factors implicated in heart disease.
Take heart! There is good news. Positive emotions like optimism may be a psychological vaccination against heart disease. Studies show that optimistic men were half as likely as pessimistic men to develop heart disease. Now that's a lottery with good odds!
Developing a positive attitude does not mean that you can forsake all of the other methods of staying heart healthy: nutrition, exercise, no smoking - you know the drill.
The other piece of good news is that optimism can be learned and you can have a change of heart. It is a matter of replacing your negative thoughts and evaluations with positive ones. Start by choosing a chronic negative thought that runs around like a manic hamster in your head. First write down that negative thought and then write down the opposite. Learn your positive thought by heart and repeat it over and over. Don't worry about not believing what you are saying. Just focus on the positive thought and it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. I trust that you will take to heart that being optimistic is good for you. Wishing you an optimistic attitude and a healthy heart.
Lucy MacDonald, M.Ed., is the Canadian author of the positive thinking, self-help book, Learn to be an Optimist. Lucy publishes a free newsletter, Positive Perspectives, designed to help you gain and maintain a positive attitude. Visit Lucy's site at www.lucymacdonald.com for the optimism quotes and self-improvement articles.
lucy@lucymacdonald.com
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Business Owner: Positive Attitude and Hard Work Pay OffPatch.comMaintaining a positive attitude when times get tough, he added, is a key tactic of keeping the business alive, said Iqbal. Though it might appear Iqbal runs a one-man-show - from selling vacuum cleaners, to fixing them, to keeping books and more - the ... |
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Positive attitude has helped Chapman High graduate succeedSpartanburg Herald JournalBy Lee G. Healy No one would blame Amanda Brackett for having the occasional bad attitude. For asking for extra help. For feeling that life hasn't treated her fairly. At just 18 years old, the recent Chapman High School graduate has endured and ... |
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Karlos Dansby hooked on challengesSun-SentinelGiven Dansby's work ethic and positive attitude, nothing seems impossible. For the Dolphins and new coach Joe Philbin in 2012, Dansby is looking forward to a championship season. "As a team, I'm expecting us to win the AFC, period.and more » |
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Young workers need the right attitudeKansas City StarI share this account because this is an ideal time to remind the young workers in your household of the importance of showing up to work each day this summer with a positive attitude. Also, explain how it's best to focus on situations they CAN control ... |
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New Children's Book Promotes Triumph in the Midst of AdversityPR Web (press release)Her positive attitude, and gift for writing, inspired her to compose a children's book titled A Rose in Desert . According to JumpStart Ink, Emerole's enchanting book is thirty-two pages and currently available on Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com. |
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