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About positive thinking

Recently I have been thinking about positive psychology a lot. It concerns a human’s wellbeing, strengths, resources and how these can be maintained. Usually people don’t stop to think about some matter’s good points. I think that Finns especially are people who think a lot about bad things like ”what an awful weather”. Positive psychology focuses on human’s strengths, not on weaknesses or bad sides. The main point is that you can find positive ways even in a hard situation.

I have been trying to think in a more positive way about everything. I noticed that it was a really difficult at the start but it will became easier. I think that I got into a better mood from a way of positive thinking. Maybe this method can be applied to everything. A good example is studying English.
I have thought that I’m bad in English for my whole life. Of course I’m bad in English when I’m thinking like this! I have been trying to change my attitude about studying English since junior high school years. Yes, I have progressed but not enough.

My ALMS course is developing me a lot. I have got more self-confidence when I use English. This self-confidence is the main point. If you don’t trust yourself then you don’t use English so much. I have noticed that I have an ear or a spine for  English language, but I don’t trust it because I really don’t believe that I have this ”correct language spine” –but it’s often right. Maybe my course books in English have affected this.


I’m a proud of myself because my English teachers understand my speech. My texts are full of little mistakes but I don’t focus on them because I have written understandable text! For the first time in my life English lessons are nice in the university. I can give advice to tourists in English. I understand my course books which are full of complicated psychology terms. I have been writing in English in my blog. The question is how can I not be good at English?

-Vizu
This is my English essay.

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My mind is upside down

This weekend I have been feeling down. I don't know why. I haven't had so much to do and because of that I have time to think about all the bad things... But I promised to be more positive! Today I finally got myself to go for a walk outside. Because of that, now I am feeling happy! Outside I started to think more positive things! The nature also keeps up a good mood. The spring has come because there isn't snow anymore.


I realized that I feel lonely. I have studied really hard in this year and I haven't seen so many people. Partly I have been hardworking consciously because I don't want that I have time to miss my man who is in the army. I have noticed that it works. I have exam on next Tuesday and after that I will start to read hard for my next exam. Still I'm a little bit scared of the coming summer if I will have too much time for thinking. But I don't worry about it yet!

I have kept my promises! I have a sleep rhythm now and I have always walked up the stairs. About positive thinking, today on my walk I thought that I really love my residential area! If you don't focus thinking like these little happy things then you don't realize them. About missing, I have explained to myself "it's really wonderful that I have person like this and missing him tells about something very important". <:3

Like this my sad weekend has changed to a wonderful one!

-Vizu

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The big destination

This spring I have a goal to be better in English. Besides this I have also another big destination. This week I started "the skills of life" course which is meant for students. I think that the course can be very useful to everyone. My first year in the University of Helsinki was really hard and in the future I want that my psyche will not crash again. Therefore my destination is to be mentally stronger and then life will be more in balance.


This course is very interesting. In the first lecture we learned that the good life consist of many things and positivism is a big resource. A regularl day rhythm with enough sleep, food and exercise is very important. Because I'm the member of Bio-Klaani, I have a bad habit to stay awake for too long at night. Now I have decided that I will not stay awake so long (you can laugh) and I also will not to sleep so long in the morning. Also, I will create a sleep rhythm for myself!

The second big idea which I get from the course is positivism. People thinking too much bad things about itselves and "what's wrong with this and that thing...". Why are we always so negative about everything? You are happier when you focus on the positive things more than the negative! I decided that I will try this in my own life. For example, when something goes wrong, I try to think what's good about this? Did I learn from my mistakes or something else?

Finally I promise to always use stairs and use not an elevator. Like this I can exercise such that I almost don't notice. I have to reveal that at the moment I'm a really lazy to exercise but I try to change it.

Ugh. There are so many promises. But I will keep them all!

-Vizu

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About me as a writer

I think that writing is nice but when it comes to high school and academic levels, it’s not fun anymore. I have written a diary in childhood and I also wrote some stories in adolescence. Nowadays I gave been writing in my blog a couple of years. In addition, I wrote a role playing game (but now it’s more like a novel) with many others. I think that I have a lot self-criticism when I write and because of that my role-playing ”career” is frozen at the moment. In my opinion, writing needs a lot of creativity. I don’t think myself as a creative person. Sometimes it’s very problematic in writing.

Nowadays my attitude to writing is a quite negative. Now I’m thinking, why? Maybe because I had a more negative than positive experience of writing from high school. It became clear in the high school that I have a slight dyslexia which increases the difficulty of writing (also in my mother tongue) and learning foreign languages. I’m used to living with that but it’s still hard to understand what has gone wrong in my essay when I have not applied myself enough to an essay’s topic.

I have to change my attitude to writing and trying even harder so that I can be a better writer. When I write in English I just want to get used to writing because starting to write would be easier for me in the future. In practice I promised to write something in English in my blog in every week.


I have to decrease my self-criticism when I write because a text can never be perfect. I write in my own style and it has strengths and weaknesses. At the end I still like to write!

-Vizu
This was my essay for the English lesson.

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