Positive Thoughts: 13 ways I keep them going through stressful situations and trying times

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By Emilia Valente

Sometimes when stressed or run down, we get tunnel vision and everything gets distorted. We are then unable to have, or express, positive thoughts and emotions.

The trick to positive thinking is to do things to promote the habit. Also, it is totally healthy and normal to have negative thoughts. And sometimes, entertaining them for a bit is healthy as long as you stop or change them afterwards.

Keep on making lemonade, even if life decides to give you MANY unusable lemons.

13 ways to encourage positive thinking

Some helpful ways to encourage positive thinking that I found work for me are:

1. Limit your worrying thoughts. ? I do something called ‘worry time’. That means for an hour a day I entertain negative and worrisome thoughts. Then I put them in a box and focus on other things once the hour is done.

2. Practise gratitude

3. Take on a positive, stress-free hobby