Try on the Positive Tetris Effect

"To be awake is to be alive. Learn to reawaken and keep yourself awake, by an infinite expectation of the dawn." - Barbara Ann Kipfer

The Tetris effect occurs when individuals devote so much time and attention to an activity that it begins to pattern their thoughts, mental images, and dreams. Those who play the Tetris video game for a prolonged amount of time may then find themselves thinking about ways different shapes in the real world can fit together.

The positive Tetris effect occurs when the brain scans for and focuses on the positive. This results in: happiness, gratitude, and optimism.

The more individuals focus on the positive around them, the better they will feel. Higher levels of performance occur. 

Gratitude has proven to cause positive outcomes.

Optimism arrives from positivity. Work performance improves with better coping skills in stressful situations. Optimistic people maintain high levels of well-being during times of hardship.

Armed with positivity, the brain remains open to possibility, called by psychologists, "predictive encoding." Expecting a favorable outcome encodes the brain to recognize the outcome when it arises.

Leave the dandelions to twirl,

sway in the breeze, take in dew

while they claim sunlight.

They realize potential.

Three Good Things:

Start the day with a list of the good things in life, work, and relationships. End the day with three good things that happened during the day.

Consider situations that brought laughter, feelings of accomplishment, strengthened connection with friends and family, and provided hope.

This trains the brain to become skilled at noticing and focusing on possibilities for growth. It seizes ways to act on them.

This thinking process assists to push away small annoyances and frustrations that lurk.

"What you do for yourself, you are doing for others, and what you do for others, you are doing for yourself. Any gesture of kindness, gentleness, and honestly toward yourself will affect how you experience and interact with the world." - Barbara Ann Kipfer

Try on the Positive Tetris Effect. Begin and write three good things.