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    This document discusses positive thinking and how it relates to stress management and health. It explains that positive thinking helps overcome negative self-talk by recognizing negative thoughts and replacing them with positive examples. Additionally, positive thinking can enhance focus at work and reduce accidents. The document then discusses how negative self-talk develops and provides common forms of irrational negative thinking like filtering out positives or personalizing negative events. Finally, it recommends learning positive thinking by challenging negative thoughts with rational, positive alternatives.

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    This document discusses positive thinking and how it relates to stress management and health. It explains that positive thinking helps overcome negative self-talk by recognizing negative thoughts and replacing them with positive examples. Additionally, positive thinking can enhance focus at work and reduce accidents. The document then discusses how negative self-talk develops and provides common forms of irrational negative thinking like filtering out positives or personalizing negative events. Finally, it recommends learning positive thinking by challenging negative thoughts with rational, positive alternatives.

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    This document discusses positive thinking and how it relates to stress management and health. It explains that positive thinking helps overcome negative self-talk by recognizing negative thoughts and replacing them with positive examples. Additionally, positive thinking can enhance focus at work and reduce accidents. The document then discusses how negative self-talk develops and provides common forms of irrational negative thinking like filtering out positives or personalizing negative events. Finally, it recommends learning positive thinking by challenging negative thoughts with rational, positive alternatives.

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    Positive Thinking:

    Practice this stress management


    skill
     Positive thinking helps with stress
    management and can even improve your
    health. Overcome negative self-talk by
    recognizing it and practicing with some
    examples provided

     Positive thinking enhances focus on your


    job and can help to reduce the chance of
    accidents
    Understanding positive thinking and self-
    talk
     Self-talk is the endless stream of thoughts that run
    through your head every day. These automatic thoughts
    can be positive or negative. Some of your self-talk
    comes from logic and reason. Other self-talk may arise
    from misconceptions that you create because of lack of
    information.

     If the thoughts that run through your head are mostly


    negative, your outlook on life is likely pessimistic. If your
    thoughts are mostly positive, you're likely an optimist —
    someone who practices positive thinking.
    How positive thinking gives way to
    negative thinking

     But what if your self-talk is mainly


    negative? That doesn't mean you're
    doomed to an unhappy life. Negative self-
    talk just means that your own
    misperceptions, lack of information and
    distorted ideas have overpowered your
    capacity for logic and reason.
    Some common forms of negative and
    irrational self-talk include

     Filtering. You magnify the negative aspects of


    a situation and filter out all of the positive ones

     Personalizing. When something bad occurs,


    you automatically blame yourself.

     Catastrophizing. You automatically anticipate


    the worst.

     Polarizing. You see things only as either good


    or bad, black or white.
    You can learn positive thinking
     Instead of giving in to these kinds of
    negative self-talk, weed out
    misconceptions and irrational thinking and
    then challenge them with rational, positive
    thoughts. When you do this, your self-talk
    will gradually become realistic and self-
    affirming — you engage in positive
    thinking.
     Periodically during the day, stop and
    evaluate what you're thinking. If you find
    that your thoughts are mainly negative,
    try to find a way to put a positive spin on
    them.

     Don't say anything to yourself that you


    wouldn't say to anyone else.
    Negative self-talk Positive spin
    I've never done it before It's an opportunity to learn
    something new
    It's too complicated I'll tackle it from a different
    angle
    I don't have the resources Necessity is the mother of
    invention.
    There's not enough time Let's re-evaluate some
    priorities
    There's no way it will work I can try to make it work.
    No one bothers to I'll see if I can open the
    communicate with me channels of communication.
    REMEMBER!
     You owe it to yourself to react positively!

     You owe it to yourself to work safely!


     You owe it to yourself and your loved ones
    to avoid injuries!

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