@Self-Self 28 February 2022

Ways to Develop Positive Thinking Habits All kinds of thoughts go through our minds during the day. These dialogues, personal comments, effective words, events and habits lived in the folds of our minds can sometimes be so effective that they can determine the rest of our lives. If negative thoughts are running through your mind, it is almost inevitable that it will negatively affect every area of your life. Negative thoughts in our minds can cause us to turn into someone who sees our surroundings through a dark and dirty glass, not to see the colors of life, and to perceive the facts differently than they really are. The good news: The habit of positive thinking is a skill that can be developed with practice. I have compiled great suggestions for you that will help you look at life from a more colorful window and acquire the habit of positive thinking. **Start Your Day Positive** The way you start the day, so will most of the rest. If you start with a negative perspective, it may not be easy for you to experience positive emotions for the rest of your day. Hold on to positive emotions as you start the day. Leave a note next to your bed or in front of your mirror to remind you of positive emotions. In the early hours of the day, make sure to have positive conversations. Developing a positive perspective is possible by consciously incorporating positive behaviors, emotions and attitudes into your life. When you use your innate free will to turn to the positive, see the glass half full and focus on the good, you will see that you gain a much more positive perspective towards life over time. **Replace Negatives with Positives**

All the experiences you have during the day determine how you think and how you feel. So start questioning what's going on inside your mind and what might be the sources of your negative thoughts. Ask yourself this question: What are the 3 sources of negativity in my life? The source that causes you to think negatively and therefore feel bad about yourself can be someone close to you, a website or application you visit regularly, a television show or even a song. Then open a new page in your mind and start thinking about how you can make changes in your life to spend less time with these three things, and what resources you can replace these resources with that make you feel good. Get yourself a realistic plan of action and implement it for the next week. **Exercise Regularly** When you are having a hard time with negative thoughts, even 20-30 minutes of exercise can help you change the thoughts in your head. Thanks to the happiness hormones secreted during the exercise, the tension and anxious thoughts that accumulate in you dissipate and you start to feel stronger. As your ability to focus your mind will improve, you can stay more in the present moment and move away from worrying thoughts about the future and negativity about the past. This, in turn, strengthens your capacity to deal with events.

**Stop Making the Fleas a Camel** Because we are programmed to protect ourselves against outside threats, always thinking of the most dangerous, risky and frightening scenario, we sometimes overestimate really small problems. However, in order to develop a more positive perspective towards life, you need to increase your awareness of this issue and stop raising small issues in your mind and seeing them as the most important problem of your life. If you want to move forward and don't want your worries and fears to take over your life, give up this habit. When you somehow feel that you are starting to make fleas a camel, ask yourself: Will this problem still be in my life 5 years or 5 months from now? Give Thanks When a person looks at life from a negative perspective, he may miss many things to be thankful for in daily life. You can realize that there are many things in your life that you do not even realize, that have been with you since your childhood, only when you remember those things. When you go to bed at night or when you open your eyes in the morning, be grateful for the food you eat during the day, having a house to lay your head in, having clean water sources, your family, friends, whatever makes you happy. **Don't Keep Anything Inside You**

If you keep holding on to negative emotions, after a while they start to take over you. In order to get rid of these negative emotions, use the transfer tools such as speaking, writing, painting, and singing that you can express yourself best. You can also share your negative feelings with a relative. In this way, you can rest your mind a little and bring a new perspective to the subject while the other person is listening to you. **Add Value to Another's Life** If you are stuck in negative thoughts, one of the most effective ways to get rid of it is to add something positive to someone else's life. When you do something positive about a loved one's life and see it shine, you too can be happier and feel better. You don't have to go to extreme lengths to add value to someone else's life; Be kind, be helpful, be there when he needs you. Slow Down When you go too fast, think fast, live fast, you may feel that you are often on your feet and cannot do anything exactly the way you want. When your activation is high, your stress level can rise and it becomes impossible to think clearly about what happened. In this case, negative thoughts begin to surround your mind. However, when you slow down, your mind and body also calm down. Thus, it will be easier for you to have a positive perspective on events.