We all know how powerful
positive thinking can be, so why do we naturally tend to focus on the negative?
This is an important question for us as therapists and coaches to answer on
some level because our clients will unwittingly invite us into a negativity
bias! Now while we want to be with the clients emotions, thoughts and experience, we also need to find a way to resist getting sucked into the negativity
ourselves AND help them to move towards their natural strengths and competence
that are also there lurking in the background of all the negativity.
Rick Hanson has done a lot of research into the neuroscience of
happiness and has found that we can credit our innate negativity bias to our
ancient ancestors. I found this very useful for both myself and my clients to
understand, so click here to view a video clip of Rick explaining the
evolution of the negativity bias, and how the human brain hangs onto lessons
learned from negative experiences.
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