With mindfulness and planning for the future to positive Thinking

People who spend their lives in the Here and Now and it at the same time with plans for the future and reconcile, cope, according to a study by the North Carolina State University daily Stress on the best and succumb to less negative moods.

Of the 223 study participants, their tendency to perspective was initially identified to respond to Stress. After that, they kept eight days, as it was their mindfulness, the perceived Stress and your mood ordered. It showed that perspectives contributed by the end of strategies for coping with the stress of everyday life. On days when the participants were not very mindful, the effect is significantly lower. The the authors of the study in the journal Personality and Individual Differences reports.

"It is generally known that the daily stress factors that can lead to that we get in a bad mood. Our results show that a combination of proactive and a high level of mindfulness has the effect that study participants of all ages more resistant to everyday stressors sind", summing up, the psychologist Prof. Shevaun Neupert.

Mindfulness means that people live in the Here and Now rather than dwelling in the past or worry about the future. Among proactive coping strategies means that people develop plans for how to make your Situation better to be able to master.

"Measures aimed at daily fluctuations of mindfulness can be particularly denken&quot be helpful for those who have a high level of proactive and tend, to cost of remaining in the present and in the future;, concluded Neupert from the results.

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