Maintaining a Positive Mood – Try to Find the Good in the Bad

Psychologists have named the “finding something good in a bad situation” a benefit-finding. There have been a lot of studies which have shown that, for example, some patients which had some really bad diseases, like breast cancer, multiple sclerosis, heart disease or rheumatoid arthritis are able to identify at least one benefit from the fact that they are ill.

For example:

*they usually appreciate a lot more of everything that life offers.

*they have the capacity to develop deeper relationships;

*they usually have a bigger sense of compassion;

*they can examine themselves better;

*these people have less tension, less anger and less anxiety;

*they are much more active;

*they have a better mood, they try to have a smile on their face;

*they act really nice with all the people around them.

We should admire these people and try to learn from their experiences. We should all understand that we do not need to experience something bad in order to become happier people.

But, when something bad happens to us, we need to understand that life offers us many surprises: some of them are good and some of them are bad: we have to see all these surprises as a part of our life, as things hat were supposed to happen. The best we can do is to try to learn something each time that something happens. We should always try to think that there are people who have a harder life, who have bigger problems. We have to be satisfied with what we have and try to keep the smile on our face.