Train Your Brain To Stay Positive With These 7 Simple Exercises

Oct 11, 2018

Staying positive day after day in the face of life’s conflicts is a difficult task. Fortunately, it is possible to train the brain to respond to negative situations with positive reinforcement. Here are seven positivity hacks to help train your brain to combat negativity.

This isn’t as easy as it sounds. Bad days get can get anyone down. A great way to remind yourself how lucky you are is to keep a gratitude journal. Keep a pen and paper beside the bed. Each morning and evening write down the things you are most grateful for. Focusing on what we have makes what we feel we lack inconsequential.

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” ― Epicurus

Negative energies can devour your confidence and positivity. You can fight it by staying centered throughout the day. When you begin to feel drained, find a quiet place to gather all your energies inward and be centered in the universe.

Meditation, nature walks, yoga, and deep-breathing are all effective ways of centering yourself. When the mind is calm, the spirit is heard more clearly. The calming energy of a balancing and centering action encases the entire body and encourages positivity.

“Think off center.” - George Carlin

Having a goal in mind every day is essential to positivity. Keeping the mind as well as the body active drives away negativity. When the mind and body are totally focused on being successful, there is nothing else it can be.

“Idle hands are the devil’s workshop.” - Proverbs 16:27

We learned long ago that what and how we eat, drink, and sleep has a huge impact on our health. Mental health, such as depression, stress, anxiety, addictions and a range of psychological problems, can be adversely impacted by something as small as a vitamin deficiency, according to a recent study.

Studies also show that sleep deprivation leads to heightened anger, irritability, and hostility. Eating and drinking healthy and sleeping 8 hours a night are small tweaks you can make to your lifestyle that add up to big changes in positivity and energy levels.

"Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy wealthy and wise"  - Benjamin Franklin

An often-overlooked way of making yourself feel great is to help someone else. Knowing you have lifted someone’s mood and helped improve their day increases your own confidence. It creates a ripple effect of positivity that bounces back to you ten-fold.

“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.” ― Barack Obama

You cannot have a positive experience with the world if you have past negative experiences trapped inside of you. Starting the inner healing processes with simple exercises like NLP, daily affirmations, and tapping are all effective. Childhood and early adult trauma, bad relationships, and shocking negative experiences can scar a person from the inside. Working on your inner health helps to heal those old traumas and free your soul from the negative binds.

“Pain in the body is a clear indication, 

Something in the energy fields is blocking inner growth.” ― Nikki Rowe

Doing what you love each and every day is a great way to stay positive. Working a job or having a pastime that doesn’t truly make you feel good about yourself and your place in the world works against you. It could be time to look for a new job if you are miserable.

An easy way to help figure this out is to write down a list of things you love doing and then a list of things to like to see change for the better in the world around you. Compare these items with the way you currently live your life and see if you find any similarities. Aligning your soul with its truest passion is the key to having a positive life.

“Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.” ― Ray Bradbury

Have you been training your brain without even realizing it? Let us know in the comments and pass this article along to raise awareness!