The Little Blue Book

Positive thinking, being optimistic, and the emotional resilience that comes with it, encourages flexibility of thinking and self-belief when confronted with challenges (“…it’s gonna be hard, but we can deal with this”). Which then motivates action in dealing with them – rather than seeking to avoid, withdraw or simply ignore the problem. This gives us control over our challenges and puts a brake on negative thinking and negative emotions that can run amok with our mental health. 2 Doing this, practicing positive thinking when dealing with crisis events, helps us ‘bounce back’ from these life experiences with improved coping skills and strengthened psychological resilience and wellbeing. It will also help protect the wellbeing of those around us (who are impacted or influenced by our behaviours and coping strategies). IMAGE (1) IQ and ego-resiliency: Conceptual and empirical connections and separateness; Block J, Kremen A.M., Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (1996); www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov (2) Dispositional Optimism and Coping: A Meta-Analytic Review Solberg Nes L., Suzanne C Segerstrom S.,C.; https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov The positive thinker can recognise stressful events as parts of a picture – and not the whole picture PostScript Section 2 Section 3 Section 1 15 ADA Australia