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HOW YOUR OUTLOOK INFLUENCES HEALTH AND ABILITY TO CONTROL ANGER Jane and Anthony have differing ways of viewing the world. Jane is a pessimist (the glass is half-empty), while Anthony is an optimist (the glass is half-full). These outlooks influence how they experience similar situations. SCENARIO 1: JOB LOSS Anthony, however, has a healthier innerdialog. He tells himself he may not have been good at that particular job, his skills and companys needs did not mesh, and being fired was only a temporary setback in his career. SCENARIO 2: NEW JOBS Anthony, however, feels he landed thenew job because his talents were finally recognized and he can now beappreciated for what he can do. IMPLICATIONS Recent research by Dr. Marvin Seligman confirms this. When good things happen, optimists believe the causes are permanent, resulting from traits and abilities. Optimists furtherbelieve that good events will enhance everything they do. Pessimists, on the other hand, believe their troubles will last forever, will undermine everything they do, and are basically beyond their control. When good things happen to pessimists, they see them as temporary and caused by specific factors that will eventually change and lead to negative outcomes. BENFITS OF OPTIMISM In fact, one long term study at the Mayo clinic in Rochester, MN, found that optimists lived 19% longer than pessimists. Optimism is also a powerful antidote to anger. Many participants in our anger management classes report their anger lessening as they learn to replace negative thinking with positive thinking. GOOD NEWS FOR NEGATIVE THINKERS The starting point is to access your vulnerability to pessimistic thinking by taking the self evaluation test you can find at http://www.authentichappiness.org. Your responses will be compared to thousands of other people in variouscategories, down to your Zip Code. If you scored lower than youd like, you can become more optimistic. As Dr.Seligman writes in Authentic Happiness his latest book: the trait of optimism is changeable and learnable. LEARNING TO BE AN OPTIMISTIC THINKER People often do not pay attention to their thoughts and thus do not recognize how destructive they can be in leading to negative emotions. The key is to recognize your pessimistic thoughts and then treat them as if they were uttered by someone elsean external person, a rival, whose mission in life is to make you miserable! Basically, you can become an optimist by learning to disagree with yourselfchallenging your pessimistic thinking patterns and replacing them with morepositive patterns. Note: this view of optimistic thinking is not the process of positive thinking in the sense of repeating silly affirmations that you really dont believe. Rather, it is the process of correcting distorted or faulty thinking patterns that create health, career, and relationship problems for you. By teaching yourself to think about things differently, (but just as realistically), you can morph yourself from a pessimist to an optimistand tame the Anger Bee in the process. === Dr. Tony Fiore is a licensed psychologist and anger management facilitator and trainer.He publishes a free monthly newsletter "Taming The Anger Bee" which can be viewed on his webiste at http://www.angercoach.com
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