Your bad ‘moods’ are a HABIT YOU PRACTICE

I recently read the sub-stage article and introduced me to the concept of upward spiraling. I know what a downward spiral feels like, but the author pointed out something really interested, you can spiral upward in the exact same way. Psychologist Fredrickson and Jon and coin the term upward spiral in 2002, when they found the positive emotions build on each other just like negative ones do, only in the opposite direction. Through their broad and build theory, they discovered that positive emotions don't just feel good, they expand what you notice, how you think and what you're capable of in relationships, resilience and ideas. But if both spirals are available to us, why do we choose the one that doesn't benefit us? Because the neuro pathways you use most are the strongest. So if you spend years worrying, full of self-doubt and overthinking, those lines in your brains are electric. You'll revert to them automatically because the upward spiral feels so foreign in comparison. I don't think the answer is always just choose happiness, but I do think we have mistaken vigilance for depth. We treat over thinking like rigger, like if we worry hard enough, we'll arrive somewhere safer. But what I've noticed is spiraling down actually never leaves me any the wiser. It makes me feel more stressed like a perpetual cycle of anxiety. And if you're thinking, I'm just not that optimistic. Well, if your brain can train itself to spinal down, it can train itself to spinal up and that's not optimism, that's neuroplasticity.