(This post is part of the A to Z Challenge. I am writing this month on activities that keep me refreshed during these depressing days. It's Day 16 today.)
Positivity is the practice of having a positive or optimistic attitude to everything that happens around us.
(This word is not to be confused with 'positivism', which is related to social philosophy, meaning societal behaviour is best understood through scientific principles.)
These are difficult times. News of people falling ill and passing on, fears of how long it would take for the economy to be up and running, the discomfort of being locked up in one's home for days on end, the frustration of not getting our favourite food items and having to subsist on whatever is available, the travails of blurring of the boundary between office and home which are under the same roof, the new routine of doing dishes, laundry, cleaning, cooking etc ... the list goes on.
Like happiness, positivity also doesn't come to us on a platter. We need to make a conscious effort to discover it. It's a choice that has to be intentionally made: like seeing the glass as half full rather than as half empty.
A positive spin to a difficult situation can make us feel better. Adversities are to be seen as opportunities. We will look at possibilities and solutions, which can then yield results. If, for example, we are forced to bend and stretch and use our limbs much more than normally we have to, a good way looking at it is, as an exercise and the benefit that can come out of it. That thought process will make difficult tasks easier.
Like it's often said, we are not made by the circumstances, but by how we react to the circumstances.
(This word is not to be confused with 'positivism', which is related to social philosophy, meaning societal behaviour is best understood through scientific principles.)
These are difficult times. News of people falling ill and passing on, fears of how long it would take for the economy to be up and running, the discomfort of being locked up in one's home for days on end, the frustration of not getting our favourite food items and having to subsist on whatever is available, the travails of blurring of the boundary between office and home which are under the same roof, the new routine of doing dishes, laundry, cleaning, cooking etc ... the list goes on.
Like happiness, positivity also doesn't come to us on a platter. We need to make a conscious effort to discover it. It's a choice that has to be intentionally made: like seeing the glass as half full rather than as half empty.
A positive spin to a difficult situation can make us feel better. Adversities are to be seen as opportunities. We will look at possibilities and solutions, which can then yield results. If, for example, we are forced to bend and stretch and use our limbs much more than normally we have to, a good way looking at it is, as an exercise and the benefit that can come out of it. That thought process will make difficult tasks easier.
Like it's often said, we are not made by the circumstances, but by how we react to the circumstances.