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Simple Ways to Improve Your Psychological Well-Being
Positive Thinking
- Recall positive life events.
- Help others and remind yourself that you can impact the world and feel happier.
- Practice mindfulness that makes you more present and increases happiness and resilience.
- Express gratitude by telling people or writing about what you feel thankful for.
- Identify and remind yourself of your strengths to feel capable and confident. Reflect on the qualities that helped you succeed in the past.
- Practice forgiveness by letting go of past hurt and anger, but still protect yourself.
- Find and keep deep real-world social connections to avoid the scientifically proven toll of loneliness and increase well-being.
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Creating Purpose
Living a life with meaning and purpose is key to improving your psychological well-being. Your purpose doesn’t necessarily have to involve changing the world or devoting yourself to helping others.
If you lack a purpose, think about the legacy you’d like to leave behind and establish some objectives that can help you reach those goals.
Psychological Well-Being
it is the combination of feeling good and functioning effectively. People with high psychological well-being report feeling capable, well-supported, and satisfied with life, besides living longer and healthier lives.
Researchers found that the absence of distress doesn’t necessarily correlate with high psychological well-being, but it does with having one’s basic needs met.
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Unrealistic Optimism
The tendency to over-expect the probability of good things happening while negating the likelihood of anything bad happening is a common human trait.
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The Advocates for Pessimism
Pessimism, or having a bias towards a negative outcome, has a fan base too, as it seems that pessimists are immune to disappointment.
Their view of life already considers the worst possible outcome as the default one, and anything better than that can only improve it.
Loss Aversion
Losing something we already have is twice as much pain than gaining the same. This skewed feelings towards loss is known as loss aversion.
Expectations always dampen the feelings of happiness, always setting us up in advance for a dose of disappointment.
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Make room for your emotions
Rumi, the 13th-century Sufi poet, compared emotions to unexpected visitors.
We're supposed to let them in and not hide from them, suppress them or pretend they do not exist.
Gaining peace of mind
In a society that promotes gratitude and positivity, there is pressure to suppress or conceal negative feelings.
But psychological studies reveal that acceptance of your negative feelings promotes emotional resilience, with fewer symptoms of depression and anxiety.
The magic of acceptance
Acceptance of negative emotions involves not trying to change how we feel but taking them for what they are.
Acceptance works because it blunts the emotional reactions to stressful events. In time, it can lead to positive psychological health.
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