The creation of habits
Through the years you have taught yourself many thoughts and beliefs about how to react on things and how you believe things work. Your mind-set is simply your collection of thoughts and beliefs that shape your thought habits. And your thought habits affect how you think, what you feel, and what you do. Your mind-set impacts how you make sense of the world, and how you make sense of you. (source: http://sourcesofinsight.com/what-is-mindset/)
So when your parents taught you to react happy when someone slaps you in the face it doesn’t mean your weird, but you just don’t know any better since that is how it was taught to you. When someone screams when he sees a spider it’s a very common thing to do the same since you have learned that spiders are scary creatures.
However we humans are capable of thinking things through. Our brain is simply our hardware but the way we think about things can be reprogrammed. Think about it like our brain is the computer and the way we tend to think about stuff is our software a.k.a. our operating system. We people programmed ourselves to react negative on certain situations we shouldn't be negative about. We just automatically think negative when something bad happens and turned that into a habit. What if I told you, you can learn yourself to think positive even though something bad happens. Eventually thinking positive can become a habit too!
Next time when something is not going as how you had expected, try to remain calm and analyse what thoughts are going through your mind and ask yourself if they are legit? When you notice it's just noise in your head that's not usefull for anything try to replace it for positive thoughts. And if you want to know how to awaken those positive thoughts you could; Watch a funny video, look at photos or listen to some music!
It's difficult to train your mindset. But training your muscles in the gym requires just as much discipline and dedication as training your mental health. If you want it bad enough you can controle your thoughts and choose every single day to live a prosperous and happy life!
Best regards,
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