Fixating on thoughts and emotions, day in day out, affects all aspects of our lives. Learning to be mindful of our “internal dialogue” helps us recognize thought patterns and how they may be affecting the way we handle the situations of daily living.
Many people have found that, when they tune in to their internal dialogue, much of it is negative. Thoughts like, “I could never do that” and “What if I fail?” can seriously impact the way we behave. Stress, apparently associated with attachment to this negative internal dialogue, in turn, affects every aspect of our lives.
I have read somewhere that when we are stressed, specific hormones circulate in the body. Released infrequently, these hormones are harmless, however if produced continuously, they are associated with serious damage. Cardiovascular disease is related in part to continuous bombardment of stress hormones and arterial damage caused by free radicals created in the process.
Personally for me children are like therapy. On a challenging day, spending half an hour with the children, listening to them talk and their wonderful ideas works like a magical potion Children are always full of positive energy and thoughts. To ensure that we continue to nurture this spirit of positivity, we had an activity on Positive Attitude. To promote positive language at OIS, teachers were made to sort out the words from a mixed bowl into positive words and negative words. They identified the words that they would love to be identified with and shredded the negative words. Words like failure, stress, and disappointment don’t feature in our school.
Now these positive words are displayed at a prime spot so that all of us look, speak, use,emulate and live a ‘positive life ‘.
“Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching?”
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