Welcome to my Blog
by Dr Carolyne Joseph, PsyD on 05/16/21I am doing this blog to share with you what I hope to accomplish with the classes I will be conducting in the future. Please feel free to comment, I ask that you be respectful, especially if you are responding to something I have written or another person has written. If you have questions please contact me by phone or e-mail.
I will be sharing articles on different topics that I think are informative and possibly helpful to you in your journey across the Bridge to Tomorrow. I will also be sharing my journey about how I built the bars to the prison, in my head, and how I learned the key to unlocking the prison.
I hope you will find this blog helpful. Please feel free to express your thoughts and feelings, as much as you are comfortable sharing, about your personal journey.
The first, and I think the most important, subject I would like to discuss is attitude. Joyce Meyer has a great saying "you can't have a positive life with a negative attitude".
First of all what is an attitude? It, among other things, is our viewpoint or our way of thinking about someone or something. How is our attitude formed? It is formed by many things. Life experiences, parents, school, etc.
A negative attitude is formed from the same sources. And is kept alive by negative self-talk and negative thoughts. It is very important to be aware of negative self-talk and negative thoughts.
All of us experience negative thoughts at times. What is important is how we manage them. This can mean the difference between confidence and fear, hope or despair, victory and defeat, etc.
Many studies have shown how a chronic negative can adversely affect your health, happiness and well-being.
There are five examples below that indicate how we keep a negative attitude alive.
Self-defeating talk:
I can't
I'm not good enough
I am going to fail
Self-defeating talk is an example of negative self-talk. These are false messages we send to ourselves. This can cause you to become "your own worst enemy".
Negative Assumptions
A common form of negative thinking is to look at a person or a situation and presume the negative. It is the way you CHOOSE to view the circumstances that makes the experience positive or negative. Your choice can make you stronger or weaker, happy or gloomier, empowered or victimized.
Negative Comparison with Others:
One of the easiest and most common ways to feel bad about yourself is to compare yourself with others. Trust me, there will always be someone better looking, smarter, have more money, a bigger house, well; you get the picture. When we dwell on these things we are making ourselves miserable.
Negative Rumination about the Past
Unless you know something I don't no one can go back and do a retake of our past. We should learn from the past but not live there. What has already happened, we cannot change. We can however; use our experiences to shape and influence our future.
I hope this post has challenged you to think about your attitude and how you might make some changes to how you think.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
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