•Be intentional about consistently taking inventory of our positive and negative emotions •Consistency can help us bounce back faster and with greater resiliency when we face the inevitable challenges in life. Positivity Strategy: Cultivate a Positivity Practice For the negative emotion you experience, it takes three positive emotions to tip the scale towards positivity Positivity Strategy: Nutrition & Exercise •Fuel your body every 2-4 hours. When we’re hungry, we’re in survival mode! •Exercise increases endorphins (the body’s natural pain relievers)! •Exercising most days of the week will stimulate an increased production of endorphins. Notice the difference after you exercise! Positivity Strategy: Deep Breathing •When we engage in deep breathing, the increased oxygen helps remove the stress hormone, cortisol, from the brain. •Aim for 2 minutes of deep breathing daily, but even a few deep breaths in the heat of the moment will be beneficial. Positivity Strategy: Appreciation & Gratitude •Appreciation and gratitude (thinking actions) & Fear and Anger (survival response w/ stress hormones), can’t occur at the same time! •Write all the things you are grateful for or keep a gratitude journal Positivity Strategy: Limiting Social Media •What purpose does social media currently serve in my life? •Do I usually feel more positive or more negative when engaging with social media? •Are there people or groups that seem to influence my mood more than others? •Do my posts to social media tend to promote positivity or negativity? Positivity Strategy: Judicious Storytelling •The brain doesn’t know the difference between when we experience a negative event for the first time and when we are retelling the story to someone else. •“How will retelling this story affect my stress level?”
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