Strengthlab on Jun 23rd 2015 StrengthLab Thoughts
How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
Known as the father of the new science of positive psychology, Martin E.P. Seligman draws on more than twenty years of clinical research to demonstrate how optimism enhances the quality of life, and how anyone can learn to practice it. Offering many simple techniques, Dr. Seligman explains how to break an “I—give-up” habit, develop a more constructive explanatory style for interpreting your behavior, and experience the benefits of a more positive interior dialogue. These skills can help break up depression, boost your immune system, better develop your potential, and make you happier.. With generous additional advice on how to encourage optimistic behavior at school, at work and in children, Learned Optimism is both profound and practical–and valuable for every phase of life.
Strengthlab on Jun 23rd 2015 StrengthLab Thoughts
Taking prescription drugs for so called “brain chemistry imbalances” is wrong on myriad levels for most healthy people. Brain chemistry imbalances have never and still have not ever been proven. It was and continues to be a made up condition.
Moreover, prescription drugs don’t cure or fix these problems over the long term; they frequently make mental conditions they are supposedly treating worse, especially upon cessation of the prescriptions, forcing people back to them to feel “normal” again.
The prescriptions themselves frequently cause brain chemistry imbalances and mental disorders and lifelong users are born in this way. Consistent exercise and cognitive therapy (changing mal-adaptive thoughts) are far better remedies!
Strengthlab on Jun 23rd 2015 StrengthLab Thoughts
The majority of us can improve our lives, as well as our health, by improving the way in which we explain things to ourselves; a positive or optimistic explanation of things and others can make us stronger, a negative or pessimistic explanation of things and others can make us weaker, even leading to depression.
