Changing your innermost thoughts from negative to positive could lead to a stress-free life.  A positive outlook can do wonders to your health, including minimizing aches and pains.

What does it take to be a positive thinker?

Thinking positively does not mean ignoring problems and life issues.  It’s simply having a more pleasant approach to challenges and adversities.  Instead of being anxious about impending problems, you try to envision that the best is yet to come.

Sometimes you find yourself engaging in self-talk.  It takes place when you harbor thoughts that are all locked within you.  But be aware that thoughts can be positive or negative and are triggered by reasoning or thinking up logical thoughts.

When your thinking is more on the negative side, it likely follows that your outlook could be leaning towards negativity. By changing this negative mindset to one that is positive, you end up being an optimist, a person who radiates positivity in life.

How does positivity lead to a stress-free life?

Well, first and foremost, when you think positively, chances are, you have fewer incidences of getting stressed.  Stress and tension can bring about intense pain around the forehead, temples and other typical headache locations.  However, when you are stress-free and happy most of the time, you are psychologically and physically healthier.  Your life span may increase because your immune system is stronger. You easily ward off cardiovascular diseases and other serious illnesses. If you are healthy in mind and body, you have a better coping mechanism when faced with stressful situations.

Up to this date, it cannot be clearly stated why positive thinkers live healthier lives but there’s a study revealing that more positive thinkers and optimists tend to adopt lifestyles that bring good health.  These healthy practices include engaging in a regular physical activity, eating healthy food, and avoiding vices such as smoking and drinking too much alcohol.

Are you a pessimist or an optimist? If you frequently find yourself thinking that a situation is too complicated, you don’t have enough of life’s necessities, you can’t accomplish anything, you’re not making substantial improvements, you can’t change your situation, or you can’t do something new because you feel it’s bound to fail, then, you could be a walking pessimist.

But if you always think that every situation presents a learning opportunity, taking chances is healthy, success can come after any failure, trying is always an option, and priorities can be adjusted to address a pressing matter, then you are most likely a positive thinker.

Positivity comes with acceptance

If you feel that you are a negative thinker, don’t be stressed out.  You can’t acquire positivity in a few days.  You have to do it every single day until you transform into an optimist.  Do self-talk the positive way.  Don’t be too critical of yourself.  Accept yourself more and more each day.

Stress won’t disappear, it is part of life. However, you do have a choice to conquer it.

Keep positive people within your circle

Be with people who would like to be positive thinkers.  These people are ready to support you and will always give you proper feedback.  They may even serve as your coaches that you can depend on when you need some guidance.  Avoid negative people for they could trigger stress.  They could even prevent you from coping with stress in a productive way.

Stop and do some self-check

If you want to de-stress, take time to stop from your busy schedule.  Allot a time to rethink and to retrospect.  The first thing you could do is to take a stock of your life.  Think of the facets of your life which you usually dwell on with negativity.  It could be your career, family, or your current lifestyle.  Take it one at a time and focus.

Laugh a lot

When you are happy you release happy hormones.  Smile and laugh at funny, trivial everyday events.  Instead of blaming yourself for something that has gone wrong, laugh, smile, and get back to your feet.

How do you handle stress and cope with success?  Here are 3 tips you can follow today.

Find out where it’s really coming from

Usually, stress comes from growing discontent or disharmony in the family or workplace.  So it pays to identify where and what the triggers are.  When you know what they are you are better prepared because you have identified it.  You are fully armed when the particular stressful situation arises.

Talk with your buddies

This stress relieving method works mostly among ladies.  Hanging out with girlfriends brings a much-needed respite from stressful work or family matters.  A study shows that it even lowers the level of cortisol released by your body.  Cortisol is a hormone that’s released when a person is subjected to too much stress.

Do mental conditioning

Go to a quiet place.  Form mental images about past experiences that had brought you sheer joy. Visualize that your mind and body is stress-free and that all your tension has disappeared.  By mental conditioning, you will be able to control negative thoughts and destructive emotions.