Positive News
There are days when revisit the good old principle of "meta-cognition" and think to myself "what am I thinking about right now? Is it helping me or hindering me?" These questions tie back to the idea of positive psychology, how positive thinking can help you to become more optimistic and take positive actions rather than negative ones.
To tell the truth, I think my thoughts over the last few months have lend towards the negative. I'm not sure why this is, so I've been thinking about the sources of information and inspiration that I get from materials, people and resources around me. I realise that one of the sources of news I get everyday, apart from my boyfriend and friends is from the news I read and watch on TV, namely BBC World, CNN World and Euronews.
Online, I prefer BBC for it's depth of coverage. But while looking down the list of "Top 10 most read stories" and scannning the headlines in general, I have noticed a trend towards negative rather than positive news. 9 out of 10 of the 'most read' were geared towards 'negative' topics or 'bad news', if you will.
Granted, sometimes positive news can seem trivial, I don't know why I get this feeling, perhaps it is the tone in which it is written? The most positive thing I could find today was about Intel's new computer chip and the fact that children who blog/text are more likely to be good at writing (but this wasn't really scientifically proven), the former will probably remain on the front page for a few more hours and the latter won't even make it to the 'most read' list.
Perhaps for my own healthy state of mind (a positively charged one), I need to actively search and dig for positive news to read each day and skip the headlines?
To tell the truth, I think my thoughts over the last few months have lend towards the negative. I'm not sure why this is, so I've been thinking about the sources of information and inspiration that I get from materials, people and resources around me. I realise that one of the sources of news I get everyday, apart from my boyfriend and friends is from the news I read and watch on TV, namely BBC World, CNN World and Euronews.
Online, I prefer BBC for it's depth of coverage. But while looking down the list of "Top 10 most read stories" and scannning the headlines in general, I have noticed a trend towards negative rather than positive news. 9 out of 10 of the 'most read' were geared towards 'negative' topics or 'bad news', if you will.
Granted, sometimes positive news can seem trivial, I don't know why I get this feeling, perhaps it is the tone in which it is written? The most positive thing I could find today was about Intel's new computer chip and the fact that children who blog/text are more likely to be good at writing (but this wasn't really scientifically proven), the former will probably remain on the front page for a few more hours and the latter won't even make it to the 'most read' list.
Perhaps for my own healthy state of mind (a positively charged one), I need to actively search and dig for positive news to read each day and skip the headlines?