Tom Davis

How Positivity Rewires Your Brain

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There’s a reason I’m focusing my Doctorate on Positivity. It has the power to rewire your brain.

balancing rocksAccording to a recent psychological article, “new scientific research on neuroplasticity (experience-dependent change in the neural circuitry of emotions) suggests that positive emotional states may trigger lasting, durable changes in the structure and function of the brain.”

Here’s what this study means: if you are a negative person – in your thoughts, words or actions – it has a tremendous impact on how you think, how your brain functions, and even your health. Conversely, if you can learn to be a positive person – in your thoughts, words, or actions – it can work wonders for your brain, how people treat you, your ability to accomplish your dreams and goals, and your health – just to name a few benefits. [Read more…] about How Positivity Rewires Your Brain

Negativity Can Destroy Everything You Care About

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Negativity is a constant struggle for every human being on planet earth, and it’s taken over almost every area of our lives.

GoodAdvice.picTurn on the TV – is it positive or negative? When you listen to conversations at coffee shops, it’s typically about how someone screwed another person over. Social media thrives on bad news.

Negativity is at work when we judge someone else for doing too much of something or too little of something. Its tentacles squeeze their prey and create is stress at home and work. It sneaks its way into conversations and sinks its teeth in every time we throw someone else under the bus and criticize their actions – always from our “high” perch. It’s a plague that has infected us all, and it has a profound impact on how we are perceived as leaders and how we feel internally as human beings. [Read more…] about Negativity Can Destroy Everything You Care About