Harvard Positive Thinking Degree - I Create my Own Reality

I recently had a friend say, I think you create your own reality. I agreed. A year before, I went to a positive thinking course given by a Professor from the Harvard Positive Thinking Degree Program. He convinced me statistically, that I create my own reality.

Happiness levels are biologically set. Tomorrow you could win the lottery or get paralyzed. A year later you would be just as happy as you are today.

Your happiness set-point can be changed by training your brain to generate positive "self talk" rather than habitual negative self talk. A simple exercise demonstrated the power of self talk. We stared at our hands for 30 seconds then make a list of what we wanted to do after the seminar. We pictured loved-ones for 30 seconds and then make a second list. My first list was critical. My second list was inspired!

You can reset your happiness set-point with a simple exercise. Write down 3 great things that happen to you each day and how it made you feel. I did the exercise and it worked. I found I noticed good things around me instead of focusing on annoying things. I quit the exercise after a week when work got busy. I forgot to do the exercise for a year and my old negative self talk returned. I needed more daily reinforcement.

Here is a link to Good News Network created while in the Harvard Positive Thought Degree Program http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/content/view/2902/31/2