It seems that people with a positive personality and people with a negative personality are decided by genes after all, and I feel that there is nothing I can do if a negative person wants to be positive, but I intervened in brain science. Isn't it possible for a person with a negative personality to become positive to some extent? There seems to be a way.
Negative emotions are typical
・ Anxiety about failure when trying new things ・ Anxiety about whether or not you can
adapt to a new workplace when you change jobs
・Anxiety about whether you will really make a profit when you become independent or start a business
I think there are anxieties and worries that I feel when changing from the current environment to a different environment, as well as social phobia and anxiety with a shy personality, but I have a negative personality to such changes. People just loop negative emotions, don't they?
What is the difference between a negative person and a positive person?
In the first place, I mentioned earlier that negative people and positive people are different in genes, but even if you have the same experience, there are people who feel negative and people who feel positive.
For example, if you have a broken leg in a traffic accident, it is a negative experience in the first place, so even positive people will have negative emotions at first. It's natural, but it's natural.
After that, the negative person said, "I had to get out of the house to meet the accident, but I couldn't meet the person. Before that, I was inadvertently in an accident and the lower right corner and the dwarf were useless. I tend to despise myself and become negative thinking with a leap of logic like "What!" .
On the other hand, a positive person said, "I had an accident that broke my leg, but I'm glad I had a leg. I was dead if I had a neck or head! I'm a super lucky boy who is alive even in such a big accident!" I mean, it's a flower garden, and I can capture things strongly and strongly, I envy.
Scientifically speaking, the mechanism of the brain is different
It seems that the information processing method of the brain is different between negative people and positive people .
When you have the same experience, both negative and positive people will react the same at first, so both negative and positive people will think "Ah, I'm happy" when they have a happy experience, and it's unfortunate. When I experience it, I have feelings like "Ah, I'm disappointed", but the decisive difference is that "the duration of feelings is different" .
For people with a positive personality, the positive emotions of "I'm happy" last for a long time and the positive emotions last for a long time, and the negative emotions like "spicy and painful" last for a short time. In other words, the negative emotions are immediately forgotten and recovered. Seems to be early.
On the other hand, for people with a negative personality, the negative emotions of "disappointment, no" continue for a long time and the negative emotions swirl, while the positive emotions of "happiness" are "no, is that happiness really happy?" It is said that positive emotions do not last long because emotions that counteract such things as "?" Appear.
I have a negative personality, and I have more than I know.
In terms of brain science, people with a positive personality activate the left side of the brain, and people with a negative personality activate the right side of the brain. Also, people who are prone to depression are said to have a weak connection between the entire frontal cortex and the amygdala, so they are prone to depression because they cannot logically handle anxiety and fear. Hmm.
A 4-line diary that turns negative emotions into positives
So, can a person with a negative personality become positive? It's said that it's good to train your mentality by doing mindfulness and meditation, but it's also good to do simple habits other than that. That is a 4-line diary .
Specifically, at the end of the day, you can use a diary, a calendar notebook, a memo on your smartphone, or a diary app, but "write out your emotions" there.
Writing down your emotions on paper is effective because you can see your emotions objectively and make calm judgments, so it's like an application of that.
There is also a method called "three-line diary" that "writes three positive events that happened today", but it feels like an extension of that.
・ Write one negative event that happened today
・ Next, write four positive events
Isn't it 5 lines in total? I think, but that's okay.
The point is to write down negative emotions as well . By writing out one negative emotion, you can spit out one negative in your mind, write out four positive emotions to counteract it, and have the effect of visualizing "positive> negative". I think.
So, the left half of the diary space is a line of negative events, the right half is a positive event 4, and so on, and the positive win is clear! If you express it using the space for 4 lines, you see, "4 line diary"! It's a feeling of force.
I wonder if it would be effective if we could record negative and positive events in different colors.
If you continue the habit of four-line diary like that, the duration of positive emotions will become longer and longer. It's hard to keep going every day, but if you feel like you're feeling depressed or mentally weak, you might want to try it.
So, I'll show you other ways and methods that are effective for mental health, so please read them if you like.