As more and more of society’s emotional, mental pressures are coming from our busy daily schedules (ie: Social obligations, Digital Distractions, etc…), The concept of a Positive Living Approach (PLA) Is becoming increasingly important to how we cope with things in today’s fast-paced life, regardless of age.
The Positive Living Approach teaches you how to respond calmly and effectively to the various challenges presented to you every day, instead of ignoring the challenges and learning to live with your emotions, instead of through them. Many Health Organizations (World Health Organization, etc.) promote Emotional Wellbeing as an Important Foundation to Sustained Health.
The following will expand further on how to use Positive Living to decrease Stress & Anxiety, Increase Emotional Balance & Create a Calm Environment.
How to Use Positive Living to Reduce Stress
Defining Positive Living for Daily Use
Positive Living is about Directly Choosing to have a Constructive Thought, Attitude and Behaviour while you live each day. Instead of reacting based on Habit, We Learn how to Become Aware of Your Own Reactions, Pause, and Respond Intentionally to the People and Events in Our Lives.
The Benefit to being Intentional in This Way is that your Ability to Maintain Emotional Tension Will Gradually Decrease and Therefore Create an Environment that Sustains a Lower Level of Emotional Tension Consistently.
How Positive Living Affects Daily Situations
Interpreting challenges as manageable situations, in a way, keeps the nervous system calmer; the emotional response will be softer as the portion of our thought processes that are fear driven will gradually decrease.
Through the results of numerous psychological studies, it has been established that positive thinking is associated with lower cortisol levels and an improved ability to cope. Emotional balance can be preserved through this biological response and continued practice makes it easier to overcome feelings of stress.
Those who live a positive lifestyle will experience increased preservation of mental energy and cushioning against emotional stress. The burden of emotional distress, caused by the demands of modern society, will become easier to bear as practice continues.
Individuals who live a positive lifestyle are also preparing themselves for the next step—the proper employment of anxiety relief skills.
How Positive Lifestyle Practices Help Individuals Relieve Anxiety
Changing Anxiety-Related Cognitive Thinking Patterns
Questioning the validity of catastrophic thinking decreases their effectiveness significantly. With this practice, individuals will begin to experience greater feelings of safety and control.
Over time, people will begin to experience more control and reduced severity of their reactions to anxiety. As such, a person’s ability to regain balance emotionally increases greatly while simultaneously decreasing the severity of their anxiety-related symptoms.
Calming the Mind Through Positive Habits
These behaviours help restore a sense of tranquility, while minimising avoidance of issues. Eventually, emotional balance improves gradually with the routine practice of these behaviours.
Self-Confidence and Inner Calm
Positive living is a process that fosters the development of trust and confidence in oneself. The influence that anxiety has over decision-making will decrease as one’s level of calmness increases. The development of routines creates a calm environment for daily tasks and lifestyle choices.
Simplicity, Boundaries, and Emotional Balance
Selecting Simplicity over Going Overstocked or Stressed Out
Simplicity is a way to experience positive living; it reduces anxiety and mental overload by having fewer commitments and distractions allowing mental space to create calmness through choice.
By reducing overstimulus from the outside world we balance emotions and relieve anxiety. With fewer distractions our ability to connect within is greater as a constant level of inner calmness becomes more accessible.
Protecting Calmness by Creating Healthy Boundaries
Creating a healthy limit allows individuals to create a greater ability to reduce stress in the future. A healthier limit will provide the ability to maintain calm and continue to be the same level of calm throughout their lifetime.
Creating a healthy limit prepares individuals to deal with future stressful situations effectively.
Long-Term Reduction of Stress Via Positive Living
Managing Stress
This viewpoint will reduce stress on an ongoing basis because it lessens the emotional intensity of feeling overwhelmed and creating a sense of being able to cope and balance emotions over time.
Developing Resilience Gradually
To build resilience it is necessary to develop a series of successful coping experiences over time by creating small successes and allowing individuals to develop confidence and lessen future fears of the potential stressors.
As a result of building and continuing to have positive experiences of coping with stress over time; the longer you have a resilient mindset and develop emotional recovery faster than those who do not.
Do Not Complete Positive Living Experiences Perfectly
Positive living will provide a continual positive effect as long as positive living is implemented instead of being completed perfectly. Individuals can reduce stress by allowing themselves more flexibility and to sustain themselves under pressure.
As you develop the ability to incorporate positive living over time, creating stress will allow you to develop a habitual pattern of developing a positive outlook on life. Anxiety Relief is an Ongoing Journey to Mental Strength.
How Positive Living Develops the Mental Strength of You
Positive living aids in the development of the individual through the elimination of negative emotional thinking and a focus on positive aspects of the situation. When an individual is mentally focused on solutions rather than the problem, the focus shifts from the hardships to the growth opportunities.
The positive mindset obtained from positive living helps relieve the emotional burden created by challenging events, resulting in long term decreased levels of stress and an increase in the emotional balance and confidence.
Building a Supportive Inner Talk
An individual’s supportive inner dialogue increases his/her ability to manage anxiety and helps provide emotional balance as he/she builds confidence through ongoing response patterns to life events.
Creating a Supportive Inner Voice
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Positive living creates a kinder, more compassionate, inner voice.
Reframing Challenges as Opportunities
The perception of the challenges allows the individual to experience less fear and greater emotional space to breathe.
This creates an increased perception of resilience and mental strength to manage stress better and support long term decreased levels of stress in his/her life.
Healthy Stress Management and Positive Living
Healthy Stress Response
The key to Positive Living is to understand that not all stress is bad, only the excessive stress that cannot be managed. When an individual is aware of this, they will have a good understanding of their emotional responses when they are under stress.
As soon as a person recognizes the signals of being stressed before they become stressed out (overloaded), they will have a higher level of emotional balance than someone who has not recognized these signals. The result will be that stress reduction will be a proactive process instead of a reactive one.
Replacing Avoidance for Acceptance
The principle of Positive Living is to replace the feeling of anxiety (fear) with acceptance of the task at hand. When a person can calmly face the challenges in their life, the fear or anxiety will be lowered.
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In turn, there will be a natural reduction in anxiety.
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Acceptance also helps to reduce resistance and tension inside of a person.
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They can allow their emotions to be an Energy source instead of a Blockage.
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And, it becomes easier to respond to stressful situations with calmness.
Creating Intentional Recovery Time
Many global health authorities including the World Health Organization emphasize emotional wellbeing as an Important Foundation to Sustained Health.
Positive Living – how to live a Calm Life
Grounding in the Present
Positive Living is focused on grounding yourself in the present moment to create Calmness in Life and allows you to feel less threatened by the uncertain future. Being Grounded in the Present allows an increased Ability to Control your Emotions.
Let Go of Excessive Worry
One of the elements of Positive Living is to let go of excessive worry regarding future events. By shifting your Perspective to realistic thoughts instead of fear, this approach will support the Relief of Anxiety and Develop Emotional Balance.
This shift will direct Energy into Meaningful Action, and your ability to Manage Stress will be improved.
Trust your Ability to Cope
A critical element of Positive Living is to develop Trust in yourself to handle any challenges effectively. Having Confidence in Yourself allows you to respond Calmly and Naturally to the Challenges you will face.
The development of Trust will help you lead a Calm Life during Changes. The level of Emotional Balance will be more consistent than that of someone who does not have Trust in themselves.
This will ultimately lay the groundwork for a deeper level of Integration into Life.
Positive Living and Developing Daily Emotional Awareness
Understanding Emotional Awareness
Positive Living encourages the development of awareness of one’s Emotional State. When an individual has Emotional Awareness, they are able to Notice and Process their Emotions Without Immediate Judgment or Consciously Deciding to React.
This process Creates Clarity regarding the Patterns of people’s Emotions. The development of this Clarity Provides Prevention of Accumulated Emotional Responses that Would Result in Stress or Emotional Buildup.
As an individual’s Emotional Awareness improves, they will begin to Recognize Early Signs of Tension and/or Anxiety and be able to Self-regulate in a Timely Manner.
As a result, an individual will be able to Maintain an Emotional Balance throughout their Day’s Activity without creating additional stress.
Using Awareness to Make Better Choices
Therefore, Daily Decisions Are Made from Intention versus Reactivity. Earning Positive Living Creates Peace and Opportunities to Live Life Fully without the Burden of Unnecessary Stress.
The Awareness of an Individual’s Emotional Responses Provides More Strength to Create Continued Strengthening of Level of Emotional Balance.
The Role of Positive Living & Healthier Relationships: Reducing Conflict with a Positive Attitude
Stress and anxiety associated with everyday living can be reduced through a more positive way of thinking and behaving towards one another by way of reduced conflict in our relationships.
By communicating with each other in a calm manner we are able to replace our emotional outbursts with rational thought processes, and thus increase our understanding of each other.
When we respond thoughtfully to others we tend to have less misunderstandings in the form of arguments and other negative forms of communication, and we also have an increased emotional balance.
Because of this emotional balance we will begin to see our relationships as supportive rather than a source of stress.
Many global health authorities including the World Health Organization highlight emotional wellbeing and supportive relationships as an Important Foundation to Sustained Health.
Fostering Empathy & Patience for Each Other through Positive Living
Positive living can be useful in that it builds an individual’s ability to have patience and empathy for other people by having a positive attitude towards other people’s situations. When we are able to look at other’s situations from their point of view it helps reduce frustration.
This is due to mutual emotional harmony and therefore reduced stress.
Establishing Relationship Boundaries through Positive Living
Positive living encourages each individual to create healthy boundaries that protect their emotional wellbeing. Healthy boundaries will not only help individuals from feeling overwhelmed or stressed due to emotional turmoil but, will also allow for each individual to remain calm and collected.
When each person establishes clear boundaries it will lead to a healthier emotional balance between the individuals in the relationship because of the established boundaries. Therefore, there will be less stress on both individuals and thus they can begin to establish a simpler lifestyle next.
Creating a Simpler Lifestyle with Positive Living
Positive living promotes simplification of our daily commitments to those things that are truly important to us. Overextension of commitments leads to increased stress and anxiety.
Establishing Simple Daily Routines Through Positive Living
Positive living creates a new and peaceful way of living by using simple daily systems to reduce the mental workload for each individual. Less decision-making will reduce stress, creating a simple routine will simplify a person’s daily lives by providing them with a support system.
Simplicity will create a peaceful existence for both individuals in the relationship and will create a stronger emotional balance between both parties. This will also create a more stable foundation for the future development of behaviours and habits.
The Benefits of Positive Living and the Creation of Healthy Routines
Create Healthier Habits by Gradually Replacing Unhealthy Habits with New Healthy Habits
We will have reduced our anxiety levels and therefore, as a result of the changes that have occurred, we will have progressively improved our quality of life.
How to Make Healthy Routines Sustainable
To ensure that the positive living method of creating healthy routines continues to be successful over the long-term; it is essential that we both align our physical, emotional and mental energy levels with what we actually can or want to accomplish on a daily basis.
This alignment will help determine how best to implement those goals and objectives into our daily routine, therefore preventing burnout.
Anxiety as Information
Through Positive Living, we learn to view our anxieties as information, rather than something to fear.
By understanding that anxiety indicates unsatisfied needs, or being overwhelmed, we be able to see the usefulness of decreasing our fears.
Developing Self-Confidence in Order to Reduce Anxiety
Self-confidence can be developed by having a number of positive experiences where an individual responds to anxiety in a calm manner.
With each successive positive experience, confidence will continue to increase and the anxiety-inducing event will be perceived as having less influence.
Increasing self-confidence results in feeling less threatened by the uncertainty of future events.
With this increased confidence also comes the ability to stabilize one’s emotional response.
Establishing Healthy Relationships to Prevent Anxiety Relapse
The healthy habits developed through positive living will result in establishing healthy boundaries and encouraging individuals to develop the ability to identify early warning signs of anxiety, and intervene in a non-invasive manner.
Living Your Life a Day at a Time, and in the Moment
Fluctuations in emotional states are normal and will occur with positive living.
As an individual establishes this way of living, an individual will develop more of an ability to accept the fluctuations of their emotional states, which decreases the amount of time that frustration occurs.
Continuous Adapting to Changing Life Circumstances Through Positive Living
The positive aspects of positive living can continue to be applied throughout life as long as the individual is willing to adapt to the changes that occur.
Awareness and flexibility will allow an individual to continue to adapt over time.
Committing to Positive Living for the Long Haul
One of the most important aspects of positive living is the long-term commitment of an individual to practice patience in order to build their self-esteem.
As patience, consistency, and commitment grow, the ability to reduce stress and relieve anxiety naturally will also grow.
Encouragement for Inner Stability Through Positive Living
Positive living is an encouragement for developing a stable emotional foundation by helping people maintain their emotional ground during changing circumstances.
With inner emotional support, an individual experiences a lessening of stress reactions.
Building Safety from the Inside Out
Through developing a stable inner source of emotional security, individuals can feel safe internally rather than relying upon control from outside sources.
This internal safety creates a reduction in fear-driven thoughts.
Sustaining Inner Stability under Pressure
Through maintaining a stable emotional foundation, it becomes easier to keep emotional stability sustained under stressful moments.
Stress will not continue to build upon itself, nor will anxiety relief be a struggle.
Conclusion
In conclusion, with positive living habits, as time goes on, positive changes in thought process and emotional intelligence reduce stress and anxiety levels and allow for modifications to how individuals accept and handle life’s daily events.
Long-term success in developing a peaceful lifestyle requires the same commitment from everyone, but it can only be accomplished through patient and balanced approaches.
Individuals will benefit from greater clarity, increased calmness and greater stability when following the same principles set forth by the World Health Organization and other similar organizations.
