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Baby boomers who are outgoing, with a talent for making new friends, have a wide circle of acquaintance. Some of these people will be part of a social set, some will be work colleagues past and present and others will be family members; old school friends; closer associations. While many people have a positive and enthusiastic approach to good news and share it with everyone they know within the hour, others hold a positive piece of news within; savoring the knowledge and enjoying their own exclusive access to information that would delight everyone else if they knew about it.
Psychological articles from the school of Positive Psychology point out that a desire to share good news is healthy. It is a positive emotion that triggers other positives such as love; hope; optimism etc. Baby boomers might benefit immensely from recognizing how sharing good news promotes a cordial atmosphere. Finding good news amongst a menu of doom and gloom is a talent some people just never develop. Baby boomers who perpetually look as though they have ‘lost a dime but found only a nickel’ are a good example of people who prefer to look at the negative aspect of most things.
Positive people generate positive emotions in others and taking a healthy and optimistic view can lead others to develop their ability to enjoy and savor life’s opportunities. Good news; sharing; positive thinking and spreading happiness around are all part of building the steps to positive emotion. And positive emotion promotes longer and healthier life.
Baby boomers, due to advancing age, begin to lose old friends to divorce, separation, illness, and death. Keeping positive emotions helps to dispel heartbreak and gloom, even if the positive attitude covers only small, seemingly insignificant things such as continuing to walk the dog and feed the birds, despite feeling low. The process of doing small, positive things will eventually chip away at despondency.
Being gloomy about bad news is never productive and usually destructive. For some who are in the position of having to nurse a partner through terminal illness, the process of optimistic nurturing can have a strengthening effect. Finding positive things to do with a patient near death can enrich the dying experience and be the difference between a contented passing and a miserable process where both parties wallow in torment and grief.
Baby Boomers Guide: Positive and Negative Emotions
Psychological articles from Positive Psychology inform us that negatives can make illness and bereavement harder to cope with: waiting for the worst to happen does not make the worst thing that could happen easier through expectation. The period of time leading to the event could have been spent positively yet can be wasted by people determined to expect the worst.
Sharing each snippet of positive news, even in bad situations, has a calming effect on everyone involved and can take the sting out of bad news by providing a happy balance. Good news can be perceived as information of only passing interest by people with a poor concept of what constitutes good news, of course.
The Psychological Article on Spreading the Word and Sharing Positive News is part of Boomer Yearbook’s continuing series of baby boomers psychological coaching tips and how to alleviate elderly problems. We believe knowledge is power. We’d love to hear what you think.
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