Spending More Time in Positive Emotions

About this episode

Courtney Gray discusses the importance of focusing on positive emotions and how our mindset affects our feelings in everyday life.

In this episode, I’m talking about something we all want—feeling better more often in our everyday lives. I share a simple experience that reminded me how much of what we feel isn’t coming from our circumstances, but from the way we’re thinking about them. We spend so much time dreading things or focusing on what’s not working, and very little time actually noticing when things go well. I introduce the idea of negativity bias, how our brains are wired to focus on the negative, and why, if we ...

People in this episode

Host: Courtney Gray

Topics covered

• positive emotions
• negativity bias
• mindset
• mental health
• self-improvement

Keywords

• positive emotions
• negativity bias
• mindset
• mental health
• self-improvement

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