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.