Positive emotions, how to evoke them. Types of human emotions Part of life and positive emotions

It says: like attracts like. By thinking about debts and illnesses, you attract them into your life. When you experience positive emotions- even more positive things come to you. And this is true in all areas of human life.

If you constantly worry that you don't have money, you're afraid that you won't be able to pay off your debts, then you won't be able to achieve a state of abundance.

If you constantly expect that you can have a fight with someone close to you, this is most likely what will happen.

If you experience negative emotions, then you are in a state of stress, which means your health suffers inexorably.

What kind of happiness can we talk about if you are captive of negative emotions?!

Getting ready for the next lesson "Workshop of positive emotions" In the book “Ask and You shall Receive” by Jeri and Esther Hicks, I found an illustration of the “Emotional Scale”.

Your thoughts create feelings, feelings create vibrations, vibrations bring thoughts into reality. If your thoughts are negative, they will cause negative emotions and negative energy, which leads to stress and illness. Positive thoughts will create positive energy and lead to health, harmony and abundance.

Positive emotions lead you in an upward spiral. Negative emotions trigger the process of falling down. Using this scale you can easily understand where you are at different points in your life, and in which direction you are moving - towards health and success, or towards stress and problems.

Positive emotions

Main types of positive emotions:

• Flow, inspiration, creativity, open thinking, initiative
• Humor, enthusiasm, surprise
• Gratitude, respect, recognition of others
• Love, friendship, awareness of a higher purpose
• Forgiveness, understanding, compassion
• Joy, fun, enjoying the moment
• Generosity, service, kindness

What to do to increase positive vibrations and rise up the spiral?

Positive emotions help you relax, be in a state of harmony, find creative solutions and easily achieve your goals.

Numerous studies have shown that there is a direct connection between thoughts and body that leads to long-term health. In recent years, a branch of science has developed - PsychoNeuroImmunology, which studies how thinking affects the health and condition of the body. Scientists have confirmed that emotions “turn on” various diseases and lead to dysfunction of the body’s organs.

Exercises and practices that lead to relaxation and harmonization of brain activity, such as meditation, visualization, positive thinking, Emotional Release Technique, lead to a change in the charge of emotions from negative to positive, and act on the human immune system.

How to get positive emotions

This is one of the simplest but incredibly effective methods that works quickly and quietly, with results that exceed expectations.

The effectiveness of the Emotional Release Technique makes it one of the fastest growing methods of self-control and personal growth. It is no coincidence that most Teachers from the film The Secret love this technique and use it regularly to manage emotions, achieve goals, achieve a state of harmony, and improve health. Joe Vitale, Jack Canfield, Louise Hay - they all speak very highly of meridional tapping.

By doing daily meridian tapping exercises that will help you maintain POSITIVE EMOTIONS, you will be able to constantly be in a state of harmony, a feeling of joy and happiness. You will be in the Flow, which means health and well-being will become your true friends.

Having mastered the Emotional Release Technique, I fell in love with it at first sight! After that, I read dozens of books, watched hundreds of hours of videos, completed the best courses from leading practitioners, and took part in Pamela Bruner’s training in the USA. Now the process of gaining new knowledge has been enriched by my own experience. After all, more than 200 people have already been trained in my “Forward to the Dream” and “Laser Marketing” programs.

Each of my programs is unique! In addition to the fact that I use my rich life experience and knowledge, only in Katerina Kalchenko’s author’s program you can become so deeply and fully familiar with the Technique of Emotional Liberation. And I am proud to say that I am the First Russian-speaking expert on achieving success with the Emotional Release Technique.

In April 2013, at the request of graduates, I opened

- a community of people who want to continue to maintain their thoughts and emotions in a state of positivity, moving in an upward spiral. After all, it is much easier and more fun to do this in the company of like-minded people.

A month has passed and the results are impressive for all participants! Now they can control their happiness with their fingertips!

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Often we get caught up in business or relationships and forget about ourselves. But we deserve the main role in our own lives. Devote at least 30 minutes every day to something that makes you happy and inspiring. Dinner with friends at a restaurant, a new hairstyle, going to a theater premiere... Even the next episode of your favorite TV series! The main thing is that you like what you do. If you spent a couple of hours without any visible benefit, but with pleasure, they cannot be considered wasted.

Buy not things, but emotions

American scientists have proven that the brain experiences happiness from experiences, and not from the fact of owning some object. You think you're excited about your new phone, but in reality you're looking forward to installing apps and taking selfies with your loved one. Exciting expectations and positive experiences are more important than material values. Go to concerts, master classes or quests in a fun company. Dresses and gadgets can get ruined, go out of fashion or become boring, but the impressions will remain forever.

Listen to your wishes

Often the desire to have what you want is confused with selfishness. Many of us have been instilled with the idea since childhood: wanting something for ourselves is ugly. Desires are opposed to a sense of duty and responsibilities. The psyche leads along the path of compromises and fears, and you again find yourself in a job you don’t like, in unacceptable circumstances or surrounded by unpleasant people. So you risk falling into a state of neurosis. To get out of the vicious circle, you need to start wanting again. But when we refuse what we want for a long time, we forget how it’s done. Remember what you loved to do before: playing badminton, drawing, singing, a cappella... Go back to these activities. Next step: every morning, say out loud five sentences beginning with the words: “I want to...”. For example: “get a second degree,” “buy red shoes,” “go on vacation to the sea,” “give birth to a child.” By training constantly, you will understand what is really important to you. And stop thinking that your dreams are unnecessary or wrong, otherwise you will doom yourself to failure in advance. Be confident in your choice and enjoy every little victory! Even if things get out of control, there is always the opportunity to correct mistakes.

“Pump up” the feeling of joy

It so happens that our consciousness tends to notice the negative and dangerous more often than something good. Blame it on evolution. This pattern causes us to see reality in dim colors, even when objectively everything is fine. Life coach Ekaterina Krasnoshchekova offers techniques for “pumping up” good mood and luck. During the week, at every opportunity, exclaim: “What luck!”, “What happiness!” Soon you will see that changes have begun in your life: more light and positive things have appeared in it. Coincidence? Not at all! Learn to trust fate and rejoice in any outcome of events. You will achieve even greater effect by noting the positive aspects even in unpleasant situations. Husband stayed late at the office? Great, you’ll have time to get your nails done before he arrives. Did the bus leave from under your nose? Not scary! You'll get some fresh air. And dark chocolate, spicy food and perfumes with notes of vanilla will help you keep a smile on your face.

Get rid of unnecessary things

Old, unfashionable or unused things clutter up your apartment in particular and life in general. There is literally no room left for anything new. It's the same with negative memories. If you often think that everything important, happy and meaningful has already happened once, you urgently need to change your attitude towards the situation. Accept it as a fact: sad thoughts that make your soul feel heavy are immaterial. Most likely, no one except you cares about them. Try to come to an agreement with your memory, because it is given to us for self-development, and not in order to return to the past again and again. The more unusual impressions you receive, the less you will reflect. Old habits should also be reviewed. Think about whether you really need to check your email and social networks in the morning. Maybe you've just been doing this every day for the past few years? By getting rid of unnecessary things, you can do what is actually interesting.

Make spontaneous decisions

According to statistics, intuitive choices often influence a person’s destiny. Sometimes we are simply programmed for negative scenarios: you understand that everything is going wrong, but you continue to act out of habit. The memory matrix of stereotypical experienced situations controls actions. “But doing the same thing, it’s illogical to expect different results,” explains psychotherapist Zoya Bogdanova. — Spontaneity is nothing more than acceptance of yourself and your desires. Don’t think too long: a non-standard decision can turn your life in a different direction.”

Play sports

We are not suggesting losing 10 kg. Such a goal is not directly related to emotions. What is important here is not victory, but participation. It’s the process that comes to the fore, so get the most out of it, advises psychologist Ksenia Ulyanova, founder of Happy Academy. It’s no secret: when playing sports, the body produces “joy hormones” (dopamine, serotonin), which improve your mood for at least four hours. The main thing is to choose the physical activity that you like. Bicycle, dancing, and maybe even “non-female” boxing. Just do it because you want, and not because you have to. Maybe your muscles will become stronger from pumping iron in the gym, but if already on the second set you start cursing everything around you, the training is unlikely to benefit your nervous system. And we are for the perfection of not only external forms, but also internal content!

Negative emotions always seem to shout at you, while positive emotions are more like a whisper. This creates that very asymmetry between the positive and the negative, tilting our attention more towards the negative (and in some cases leading to a complete inability to experience positive emotions). And this is not an individual feature, this is how the human brain works: everything negative sounds louder to us, warning us of danger. This secret is well known to the media: the fastest, most reliable and, most importantly, cheapest way to attract our attention is a spark of fear (after all, all our “fearless” ancestors died out without ever evolving, right?).

Good news, friends!

"Friendship" with 10 positive emotions will help you cope with negative ones!

The person I consider my guide to positive psychology is Barbara Lee Fredrickson (Barbara Lee Fredrickson), she is the head of the Laboratory of Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology, president of the International Association of Positive Psychology. This outstanding woman was at the forefront of the study of positive emotions and remembers the time when these studies were considered meaningless, like positive emotions themselves and their meaning in human life. In her lectures on the types of positive emotions, Dr. Fredrickson deliberately forbade the use of the word "happiness", since, due to too frequent use, it has a rather generalized meaning and does not convey all possible emotional overflows.

1. Joy. That feeling when something works out really well for you, maybe even better than expected. We view the situation and the world as safe, familiar, and ever-improving. Feelings of joy trigger the need to be playful. But it is during the game that we learn. So in the case of feelings of joy, the outcome is often the acquisition of skills.
2. Gratitude. This is a calmer emotion that is more connected with society. It is perceived not just as something good that happened to you, but as if someone deliberately went out of their way to do this good deed for you. We experience it as an altruistic gift that we want to somehow compensate for. Therefore, gratitude leads to giving (while finding a creative way to give), and the result of gratitude is social connections and the skill of intimacy and love. A characteristic feature of gratitude, when it occurs normally, is the duration and cyclical nature of this feeling, when the exchange of good deeds between people continues.
3. Calm. It feels like your current circumstances in life are so right that you want to prolong this feeling. Many people believe that calmness leads to passivity and laziness. Yes, the state of serenity is accompanied by a feeling of security, confidence and low activity, but the main advantage of this feeling is the ability to enjoy, savor the moment and integrate the experience within oneself. The result of a feeling of calm is a change in one’s self, worldview and setting life priorities.
   
4. Interest. Yes, few people consider interest in positive emotions, and in emotions in general. But this is his rightful place. You feel that the people, objects, and circumstances around you are safe, but there is an element of novelty in them, something you don’t know yet, something mysterious. So interest provokes research activity and the result of this emotion is new knowledge and fullness of energy.
5. Hope. A unique positive emotion that is born in circumstances that cannot be called positive. You sense that the next emotion may well be despair; it is the fear of the worst and the desire for the best, which contributes to the development of our ingenuity, increasing resilience during and in the face of difficult times.
6. Pride. I can already hear the dissatisfied grumbling... In no case should it be confused with pride and immodesty! Pride is always associated with socially significant achievements. It's not just something you did well, but it's something good that is valued in your culture, that brings people together. You can be proud of your actions, as well as the actions of your family members, friends, colleagues, and fellow citizens. This is not bragging. It's a feeling that inspires you and makes you dream big. So the result of pride is new achievements (and new reasons for pride).
7. Fun. Doesn't pleasure begin from fun? It is associated with frivolity, slight social inappropriateness. Your mistake does not lead to self-flagellation and condemnation, but to shared fun, laughter, and strengthening connections. The outcome of the fun is not so insignificant - it is the creation of friendships, the development of creativity. Agree, for this you can allow yourself to commit a little stupidity!
8. Inspiration. This emotion awakens in us when we come into contact with human perfection. At the same time, the emotion of inspiration is more related to interpretation: when you see that people can do something very well, talentedly, you say to yourself, “This is great! I would like to be like this person, to do the same!” That is, it is a peculiar combination of the desire for one’s own perfection and the ability to see and positively evaluate the superiority of another person. What does inspiration lead to? Of course, to the acquisition of new skills, creativity and the development of one’s own morality.
9. Awe. This emotion is similar to inspiration, but it is more personal. You feel overwhelmed by the grandeur, you feel tiny compared to the incredible things that are happening next to you. Awe opens your heart and mind to new things, and the result of this emotion is the feeling of being part of a great whole.
10. Love. This is one of the most positive emotions. Its peculiarity is that it accumulates all other positive emotions: joy, serenity, gratitude, inspiration, pride for a loved one, etc. But this is also not an individual experience - it is a joint experience of two people. A positive sense of belonging that allows you to dream, explore, enjoy, and play. Love brings a feeling of strong connection, trust, community and overall health.

And finally, a few more words about the asymmetry between positive and negative: the bad is stronger than the good, since negative emotions must scream to save our lives. Therefore, we notice the negative more often than the positive. But: in fact, positive events are more frequent than negative ones! There is relevant scientific data to support this. There are many good things in our life. But whether we allow positive events to turn into positive emotions is a matter of choice and upbringing in the family. But whether you like it or not, you feel these mild positive emotions all the time throughout the day, although most often we call them average or neutral. Neutral emotions are positive emotions that we do not recognize or are not aware of at the moment. And if you recognize them, begin to notice them, you will strengthen them and provide them with a field for their magical inner work!

It is no secret that only a person can experience a huge number of emotions. No other living creature in the world has such a property. Although disputes between the scientific fraternity still do not subside, the majority is inclined to believe that our lesser, highly developed brothers are capable of experiencing some emotions. I completely agree with them. Just look at the dog who was shown a treat and immediately hid it.

But let's return to the person. What kind of emotions does a person have, where do they come from, and in general, what are they for?

What is an emotion? Don't confuse it with feelings!

An emotion is a short-term reaction to a situation. And feelings do not disappear under the flow of emotions or current situations, they are stable and in order to destroy them, you have to try hard.

Example: A girl saw her boyfriend with someone else. She is furious, upset and hurt. But after talking with the guy, it turned out that this was his cousin, who came to stay today. The situation was resolved, the emotions passed, but the feeling - love - did not go away, even at the moment of the most intense passions.

I hope you understand the difference between feelings and emotions.

In addition, emotions lie on the surface. You will always see when a person is funny, his fear or amazement. But feelings lie deep, you can’t get to them so easily. It often happens when you despise a person, but due to current circumstances you are forced to communicate with him, while pretending to have a positive attitude.

Classification of emotions

There are several dozen emotions. We will not consider everything, we will focus only on the most basic ones.

Three groups can be distinguished:

• Positive.
• Negative.
• Neutral.

There are quite a lot of emotional shades in each of the groups, so it is almost impossible to calculate the exact number. The list of human emotions presented below is not complete, since there are many intermediate feelings, as well as a symbiosis of several emotions at the same time.

The largest group is negative, with positive ones in second place. The neutral group is the smallest.

That's where we'll start.

Neutral emotions

These include:

• Curiosity,
• Amazement,
• Indifference,
• Contemplation,
• Astonishment.

Positive emotions

These include everything that is associated with a feeling of joy, happiness and satisfaction. That is, with the fact that a person is pleased and really wants to continue.

• Direct joy.
• Delight.
• Pride.
• Confidence.
• Confidence.
• Delight.
• Tenderness.
• Gratitude.
• Rejoicing.
• Bliss.
• Calm.
• Love.
• Sympathy.
• Anticipation.
• Respect.

This is not a complete list, but at least I tried to remember the most basic positive human emotions. If you forgot anything, write in the comments.

Negative emotions

The group is extensive. It would seem what they are needed for. After all, it’s good when everything is only positive, there is no anger, malice or resentment. Why does a person need negative ones? I can say one thing - without negative emotions we would not value positive ones. And, as a result, they would have a completely different attitude towards life. And, it seems to me, they would be callous and cold.

The shade palette of negative emotions looks like this:

• Grief.
• Sadness.
• Anger.
• Despair.
• Anxiety.
• A pity.
• Anger.
• Hatred.
• Boredom.
• Fear.
• Resentment.
• Fright.
• Shame.
• Mistrust.
• Disgust.
• Uncertainty.
• Repentance.
• Remorse.
• Confusion.
• Horror.
• Indignation.
• Despair.
• Annoyance.

This is also far from a complete list, but even based on this, it is clear how rich we are in emotions. We perceive literally every little thing instantly and express our attitude towards it in the form of emotions. Moreover, very often this happens unconsciously. After a moment, we can already control ourselves and hide the emotion, but it’s too late - those who wanted to have already noticed and made a conclusion. By the way, this is precisely what the method of checking whether a person is lying or telling the truth is based on.

There is one emotion - schadenfreude, which is not clear where to put it, either positive or negative. It seems that by gloating, a person evokes positive emotions for himself, but at the same time, this emotion produces a destructive effect in his own soul. That is, in essence, it is negative.

Should you hide your emotions?

By and large, emotions are given to us for humanity. It is only thanks to them that we are several stages of development above all other individuals in the animal world. But in our world, more and more often people get used to hiding their feelings, hiding them behind a mask of indifference. This is both good and bad.

Good - because the less those around us know about us, the less harm they can do to us.

It’s bad because by hiding our attitude, forcibly hiding our emotions, we become callous, less responsive to our surroundings, get used to wearing a mask and completely forget who we really are. And this threatens, at best, with prolonged depression; at worst, you will live your whole life, playing a role that no one needs, and will never become yourself.

That, in principle, is all I can say for now about what emotions a person has. How to handle them is up to you. I can say one thing for sure: there must be moderation in everything. It is also important not to overdo it with emotions, otherwise what will come out is not life, but a grotesque likeness of it.

We cannot imagine life without emotions. Good or bad, inspiring or depressing - they are part of us, although we still don’t know much about them. We have selected 50 quotes from new books and bestsellers. Let them help you paint your emotional background with bright colors or just learn something new.

1. For better or worse, intelligence can be useless if emotions take over.

2. Although emotions have always served us as wise advisers, the new realities offered by the current civilization have formed with such speed that evolution, with its sedate gait, clearly cannot keep up with them.

3. The root of the word “emotion” is the Latin verb moveo, meaning “to move, set in motion,” with the prefix e- (“e-”), which gives an additional meaning to be directed outward: “to move away, to remove.” This means that each emotion awakens the desire to act. The easiest way to see that emotions lead to actions is by observing animals or children.

4. Feelings are necessary for thinking, and thinking is necessary for feelings. But if passions rage, the balance is disrupted. This means that the emotional mind has taken over and suppressed the rational one.

5. Our emotions have a mind that holds its own views completely independently of our diet.

6. The main “switch” for painful emotions is the left prefrontal lobe. The right prefrontal lobes house negative feelings like fear and aggression, while the left lobes control these raw emotions, likely inhibiting the right lobe.

7. Empathy, another ability that relies on emotional self-awareness, is a fundamental “human gift.” People really pick up on the feelings behind the words.

8. If no changes have happened to you for some time, you have a false feeling that everything is stable and you are in control. But control can only be in one area: yourself, your emotions, confidence and development.

9. Life is time. This is what you do, how you feel, with whom you spend your hours and days, what interesting things you do. And it is within your power to start doing this now. Without delay.

10. If the movement has not started, the person freezes in the “emotional trampling” mode and spends his battery on throwing. And in this mode, she quickly “sits down”

11. Learn not to get driven, not to freak out and not to fall into emotional collapse, even in uncertainty or under the pressure of circumstances. “No money, no work, what tomorrow? A-a-a-a!”

12. When wondering whether to meet with friends in the evening and have fun from the heart or stay at home and sort out the accumulated mail, choose the first! The positive emotions from the meeting will make you much more creative and productive in the days that follow.

13. Happiness arises through the gradual “cultivation” of positive emotions. Likewise, negative experiences create a downward emotional spiral. For example, to a frustrated person, the workday seems endless and the traffic seems terrible.

15. Listening to your body and making choices in its favor every time, you receive a powerful emotional charge.

16. Sometimes excessive consumption of a particular food is caused not by physical, but by emotional hunger. Your brain remembers, “When I’m sad, I eat chocolate and peanut butter.” The trick is to separate food from satisfying a specific emotion.

17. Dreams are also closely related to our emotional state. When we experience negativity in our dreams, we often wake up with a more positive attitude and clearer thoughts. Have you ever wondered where the expression “sleeping with your problem” comes from?

18. A person who does not get enough sleep is like a living wire through which negative emotions pass instead of current. The part of the brain that controls anger becomes overactive.

19. By mastering your senses, you will form healthy habits. Once you understand that every emotion does not arise out of nowhere, it will become easier for you to control your reactions and mood.

20. Cheerful, sad, melancholic, gloomy, inspired, joyful... A person is a real whirlwind of emotions. Even when you feel bad, you are not helpless. No one can take away your right to choose, and only you can decide how to approach the situation.

21. The time-honored history of emotions goes something like this: Everyone has emotions built into them from birth. This is a separate, easily recognizable phenomenon within us. When something happens in the world - a shot or a flirtatious glance - our emotions manifest themselves quickly and automatically, as if someone turned a switch. We express emotions on our faces through smiles, frowns, or distinctive expressions that other people can easily recognize. Our voices express emotions through laughter and screaming. Our body reveals our sensations in every gesture and posture.

22. Your emotions are not built-in, but made up of basic parts. They are not universal, but different for different cultures. They don't start themselves; you create them. They arise as a combination of the physical properties of your body and the plastic brain that makes connections with the environment in which it develops and the culture and upbringing that provides that environment.

23. The law considers emotional harm to be less serious than physical harm and less deserving of punishment. Think how ironic this sounds. The law protects the integrity of your anatomical body, but not the integrity of your psyche, given that the body is just a container for the organ that makes you who you are - your brain.

24. Your genes can make you sensitive to your environment and every little problem. And if you're a woman in your reproductive years, the connectivity in your interoceptive network changes every month, making you more vulnerable at certain points in your cycle.

25. Pain is an experience that occurs not only from physical damage, but also when your brain predicts that damage is imminent. Let's say you're getting a tetanus shot at your doctor's office. Your brain constructs an instance of “pain” because you have previous experience with injections. You may feel pain even before the needle touches your arm.

26. When you feel sick, assume you have a virus rather than thinking that your discomfort means something personal. Your sensations may be mere noise. Maybe you just need some sleep.

27. When teaching your children about emotions, try to look beyond essentialist stereotypes: smiling when happy, frowning when angry, and so on. Help them understand the diversity of the real world - that depending on the context, a smile can mean happiness, embarrassment, anger, or even sadness.

28. And now I advocate using anger as one of the additional incentives on the way to your goal. It's a beautiful emotion. And, as it turned out, it is very creative if directed in the right direction. The emotion should not be “This bastard is now going to burst into tears because he lost such a beauty like me. Let him suffer for the rest of his life!”, but rather like this: “I’ll blow the nose of everyone who doesn’t believe in me!”

29. Often excess weight is a subconscious desire to hide, run away and close off from the world. This fear arises from dissatisfaction with life in general or from the fact that a person lacks emotions.

30. Our emotions are like food in the refrigerator. If you don’t survive (“eat”) them on time, they begin to rot and poison our lives.

31. Almost all pregnant women are characterized by increased emotionality. Often this is one of the first signs of pregnancy, which is very puzzling if the woman does not yet know that she is pregnant.

33. Very often a tired baby, who has had too many emotions and impressions, cannot fall asleep. This is one of the reasons why children who don't get enough sleep during the day don't sleep well at night.

34. A growing body of scientific research shows that emotional inflexibility—getting stuck on thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that don't serve us—leads to a range of psychological problems, including depression and anxiety.

35. Negative experiences are normal. This is human nature. And an overemphasis on positive thinking is another radical way our culture tries to combat normal fluctuations in emotions, just as society sometimes rushes to treat childhood hyperactivity or mood swings in women with pills.

36. Firstly, everything is decided by your emotions. Secondly, suppressed emotions inevitably take their toll, and find a way out in a completely different place than you expect.

37. When we are too joyful and cheerful, we often do not pay attention to serious threats and risks. It would not be much of an exaggeration to say that excessive joy can be life-threatening: in this state, you are more likely to take adventures and underestimate the risks of alcohol.

38. Courageously and with interest, accept yourself entirely - with a peeling nose and frayed ears, with “good” and “bad” emotions, without missing anything and without bypassing anything with sympathy. Accept your inner experiences, try to get used to them and explore them without trying to get rid of them as quickly as possible.

39. Don't try to get rid of fear. Try to go towards what is valuable to you, straight through your fears, lighting the path with your values. To be brave does not mean not to be afraid of anything; to be brave is to move forward, no matter how scary it may be.

40. There is a huge difference between stress and anger, stress and frustration, stress and anxiety. If we cannot clearly express how we feel, those around us are unlikely to be able to understand us and provide the support we need.

41. Neuroscientists have proven that stress, as well as negative emotions: anger, sadness, uncertainty, anxiety, put the brain in reward-seeking mode. You end up wanting what your brain thinks promises a reward, and you are convinced that this “reward” is the only source of joy.

42. Attempts to repress thoughts, emotions and drives backfire and force you to think, feel and do what you most want to avoid.

43. Feel what you feel, but don’t believe everything you think. When an unpleasant thought comes to your mind, notice how it feels in your body. Then bring your attention to your breath and imagine how the thought dissolves or goes away.

44. Journaling allows us to gain a deeper understanding of ourselves and our emotions, even difficult or painful ones. The more aware we are of our feelings and thoughts, the more prepared we are to gain life experience and develop ourselves.

46. ​​Smiling brings positive results. But laughter is a much stronger manifestation of emotion. It helps to cope with worries and fear, improves mood and appearance, and makes it easier to cope with difficult situations and disappointments.

47. You know better than anyone else how you feel in stressful or difficult situations. Therefore, it is very important in such cases to listen carefully to your thoughts and reactions in order to take appropriate action if necessary.

48. Morning exercise is critical to maximizing your potential because it puts you at the peak of your mental, physical and emotional state, giving you the chance to be a winner that day.

49. By visualizing what you want to get from life, you stir up your emotions, which, in turn, lifts your spirit and mood and simply pulls you towards the realization of these images.

50. The average person allows their emotions to dictate their actions, but the actions of people who have achieved great success in life dictate their views and beliefs.

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