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…gaining control can have a positive impact on one’s health and well-being, but losing control can be worse than never having had any at all.
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Studies suggest that people are quite adept at finding a positive way to view things once those things become their own.
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In order to maintain the delicate balance between reality and illusion, we seek positive views of our experience, but we only allow ourselves to embrace those views when they seem credible.
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When experiences make us feel sufficiently unhappy, the psychological immune system cooks facts and shifts blame in order to offer us a more positive view.
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…whenever you engage in a creative activity, you boost your level of positive emotion, which in turn literally widens your attentional range, giving you more material to work with.
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Attending to pleasure is a reward in itself, but savoring also boosts your quotient of positive emotion, which in turn expands your focus and may confer health benefits…
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No matter how trapped you may feel your current life, there are positive actions you can take and new experiences to be had.
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If your expectations are to try something, have fun, and see what it brings, there will always be something positive you can take home from an experience.
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No matter how confused and chaotic your life may be, you can always find one positive step to take.
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090 |
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The truth is that how you feel has little to do with your ability to take positive action.
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