Mindfulness - Change How we Feel by Changing How We Think

Thoughts affect the body, brain and feelings.  What we think can make us sick or make us well. Negative thinking is at the root of psychological stress, anxiety, mood disorders, challenging interpersonal relationships and, on the positive side, of positive, feelings and states of awareness that are mindful.  Thus acute stress, worry, anxiety, sadness, persistent depression, mood swings, difficult relationships and interactions. All of these can be improved utilizing positive emotions and mindfulness. This involves being aware of how we think about things. Thus acute stress generates automatic thoughts; mindsets.  Worry and anxiety can cause Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder; Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.  There are ways to change our thinking and thought patterns through cognitive reappraisal, mindfulness and joyfulness, meta-thinking about how we’re thinking. Now there is a thought!