Increase Your Positive Activities
Increase Your Positive Activities
Why do this?
Having even one positive activity each day has been shown to have an impact on our mood. Anything that gives a feeling of achievement or pleasure, even small things, can help. Trying positive activities, rather than negative or unhelpful ones, is also more likely to produce positive thoughts. Positive thoughts then increase your positive emotions, which in turn fuel a more positive cycle of thoughts and emotions.
Try it yourself…
STOP
Take a pause for a minute and try to identify the activities that make you happy. Make a list of what these are.
OBSERVE
Have you stopped doing these activities recently? If so, ask yourself ‘why’?
CHANGE
Plan positive activities into your diary. Identify ones you could easily do every day, such as listening to music or going for a short walk. Then think about the ones you might do weekly or monthly. The kind of activities that take more organising, time or cost something, such as going for a coffee with a friend.
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- Ways to Help Manage Your Emotions
- NHS Inform – Self Esteem Guide
- Depression Self-Help Guide – NHS Inform
- Short-Term Solutions to Self-Harming
- Substance Misuse Self Help
- Tips to Help Cope with Loss and Bereavement
- Coping with Stress Self-Help Guide
- Pain Concern – Relaxation
- Emotional Regulation Skills
- Tips and Resources for Improving your Self-Esteem
- Self-Help Guide for People who Self-Harm
- The Scottish Recovery Consortium Workbook
- NHS Self-Help Guide for Coping with Loss & Bereavement
- Positive Statements for Stress
- Emotional Regulation: Managing Emotions
- Self-Harm a Self-Help Guide
- Treatment for Drug and Alcohol Problems
- Grief-Related Apps
- Coping Skills for Anxiety
- Dealing with Distress
- Self-Harm Focussed Apps
- Tips on Managing Change in Our Lives
- Grief-Related Podcasts
- Keep an Activity Record
- Activities You Can Try at Home
- Improving Your Mood Apps
- Managing Low Mood – Self Help Guide
- Relaxation
- Problem Solving
- Computerised Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
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We want to help you make changes in your own lives and point you in a direction to start doing so. This is Wellbeing Lothian’s aim.
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