Happy thoughts to make reduce our negativity thoughts.
The best way to prevent negative thinking is asking for help to people who are positive. Many times we can find people who are positive who are willing to help us stay positive. Many times is about braking the cycle of negativity, go to a place with nature, a park, pet a pet, look at the trees, buy some flowers, or look at some pictures of nature in your smart phone or computer, those are some tips for aiming your thoughts towards a more positive attitude.
Here is another good way to get more positive is watching a comedy.
In general I find that a very good way to stay positive is try to focus in my life in the things I want to achieve and try to erase all the other negative things out of my life. For instance living in a crazy neurotic city, sometimes this thoughts can be easily spread, a good way to get away from this is by thinking in the person who love the most, a pet, a friend, a family member, etc.
Just like in the movie happy gilmore, if you are stressed out its just a matter of having happy thoughts to help overcome your stress.
Here is the movie link from youtube (free )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fir8dRi9Azs
[edited by @sujaypai by moving from Daily Check-in Threads]
I love this. We can counter act negative thoughts with positive ones, because in every negative, we also have a positive. Surrounding ourselves with positive thoughts and people who reinforce this can be life changing. Its easy to think negatively, but it takes effort to be positive. We are the master of our thoughts and we can choose to focus on the bright side of things. Focusing on our goals and achievements can certainly help along with trying to not take everything so seriously.
@Ren True. You can also take things seriously laughing too. I think the key to positivite is gratitude, like feeling great for everything we are able to do. Society has their ways of beating us to become productive and make money, thus aiming at our emotions to make us beat ourself up to be more productive make more money and buy useless things ... the ilussion of happiness... but we can beat this mechanism by achieving inner happiness by embracing ourselves as we are now, and try to cherish every moment.
Thanks.
@talktomeok L