124. You're training your brain to be miserable.
Our survival minds are biased to pay attention to negative stimuli.
That’s why most of our media is focused on everything that’s going wrong.
Because it gets more clicks.
I could have titled this blog “How to train your brain for positivity”, but the negative version of the title is more likely to catch your attention.
Unfortunately, there is a real cost to consuming all of this divisive and doomsday media.
The more our brains fire a certain pathway, the stronger the connections in that pathway become.
Consuming a constant stream of negative media that makes us feel sad, hopeless, fearful, and angry reinforces our brain's capability to experience these states.
And that's not the end of it.
If you’ve ever meditated, you will have experienced how your thoughts appear in your consciousness without your control.
This “random” generation of thoughts stems from the current stimulus in our environment, as well as the thoughts that are resting in our subconscious.
If all of the information in our subconscious is depressing, the thoughts that appear when our minds are idle will likely match.
So what can we do about this?
1. Limit scrolling.
Scrolling provides us with zero control over the media we consume.
2. Actively consume positive news.
There are several accounts across social media that post “Good News”.
Actively choosing to subscribe and engage with these accounts will help reprogram our minds to have more automatic positive thoughts, as opposed to a steady internal stream of negative thinking.
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124. You're training your brain to be miserable.
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