How positive thinking can help your life get better?

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How positive thinking can help your life get
better?
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A quick primer on emotions. There are countless
emotions we can feel. Basically, one set of
emotions allows us to pay attention to danger and
threats with intense focus. These emotions that
fall onto the negative side of the chart also
give us more ability to be accurate with the
detailed or complex matter. They also help us to
signal to others if we are displeased with them
sort of a warning that things need to be
addressed in the relationship. When we are
feeling any number of nuances of anger, fear, and
sorrow we are said to be in negative affect
affect is a fancy word for a set of emotions and
traits either positive or negative. If you
want to increase the amount of positive
thinking  feeling in your life, researchers have
found that you can do a few things each day that
seems so basic as to make you wonder if they
work. Sonja Lyubomirsky of Stanford and the
University of California researched several ways
that can permanently change the effect if
practiced each day. Here are 6 tips for
achieving more positive affect. Take a picture
every day on your smartphone of something that
brings a sense of lightness, love, or makes you
laugh. Review your pictures often throughout your
week. The bump of positivity you get from it is
amazing, plus it forces you to lift your head out
of that grilling work project and notice things
that give your brain positive neurochemistry.
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• Keep a gratitude journal. Plenty of research
  shows that people who write down a simple
  statement of something that happened to them that
  day for which they are grateful, maybe writing
  before retiring for the night, are more prone to
  a sense of wellbeing.
• Do one thing each day that positively surprises
  someone else. Call up an old friend and say hi.
  Leave post-it notes on a colleagues computer
  screen saying thanks for the job they did on a
  project with you. Compliment someone on their
  traits like their intelligence, talent, and how
  healthy they look.
• Do mindfulness exercises or meditate. Dr. Jon
  Kabat-Zinn has scores of meditation resources on
  Amazon. The point is to bring calm and focus to
  your mind, and to reset the stressor chemical
  cortisol. Every day.
• Keep a laughter file. Take all the jokes and
  videos that friends and family inevitably send
  and stuff them in a file. Each day, read or watch
  a few.
• Keep a file for things that warm your heart like
  YouTube videos or stories of people doing
  remarkable things. Visit those each day for a few
  minutes.
• Most of the things on this list will seem
  ridiculous to people deeply invested in being
  serious and negative. That dourness is fine, so
  long as it doesnt come with depression or the
  inability to bounce back quickly from setbacks.
  But, for positivity, research has shown that all
  it takes is one small jolt each day to begin to
  benefit from the power of positive emotions.
  Eventually, we find ourselves with new
  perspectives when bad things happen and we can be
  more resilient in the face of the danger and
  threats the world offers up each day.