Overcoming the Brain's Negativity Bias

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January 17, 2020 a project of ServiceSpace Negativity is an addiction to the bleak shadow that lingers around every human form...you can transfigure negativity by turning it toward the light of your soul. - John O'Donohue - Overcoming the Brain's Negativity Bias Why are we waylaid by criticism or unable to get past a minor snub from our best friend? Thats our negativity bias. We humans have a propensity to give more weight in our minds to things that go wrong than to things that go rightso much so that just one negative event can hijack our minds in ways that can be detrimental to our work, relationships, health, and happiness. Overcoming our negativity bias is not easy to do. But a new book, The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It, coauthored by social psychologist Roy Baumeister and New York Times writer John Tierney, inspires hope. { read more } Be The Change For more inspiration here's a passage from the Dalai Lama on "Lessening the Power of Negative Emotions." { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News What It Means to Hold Space & 8 Tips to Do it Well How to Be Yourself The Joy of Being a Woman in Her Seventies 12 Truths I Learned from Life and Writing Mark Nepo: Where To Now? On Being Alone Why Singing in a Choir Makes You Happier A Tribute to Mary Oliver DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 247,007 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More