6 Ways To Improve Your Level of Happiness

It might save your life..or at least your sanity

The everyday inundation of negative news stories, tragedies, and negative social media posts is too much for any normal level headed person to deal with and come out on the other side smiling and thinking positive thoughts, unless you are working at it — really working at it. No matter your media outlet, you find some form of tragedy. That doom and gloom finds its way into your personal life, and it takes over.

Or, maybe you just had a baby and Postpartum Depression has hit you hard. You feel exhausted, confused, you cry your entire drive to work.

Maybe neither one of these things are you. Maybe you are just in a rut. It is hard to get out of bed. You feel worthless, hopeless, and tired.

Sound familiar?

These negative thoughts have a way of grabbing on and taking hold. They control and consume you. If you are like me, one negative experience can send me spiraling for, sometimes, days. I fixate. My brain can’t shut it down. Why? Misery loves company. Your brain becomes accustomed to these thoughts and attracts them. It focuses on them. The negative thoughts become a habit.

Negative thoughts throw you into a mindset of survival instinct where fear thrives. It limits your ability to focus and see…