The Superpower Of Positive Personalities

Nov 09, 2018 by apost team

For decades, the power of positivity has been linked to countless physical and mental health benefits. Friendships are integrally crucial to both psychological and physical health, too, and have lots to do with positivity and negativity.

You should evaluate your friendships to determine the all-too-real impact that they're having on your life.

Modern researches, such as this one published in Public Library of Science, has shown to the world far more than a handful of times that real-life, traditional friendships cannot equally be substituted with those facilitated through gaming consoles' online networks, social media, and elsewhere on the World Wide Web.

However, such Internet-carried friendships have the same potential as traditional social networks to strongly influence both the extent to which we express emotions and the timing of when we share them with others, how much we overeat and more.

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This academic research published in Nature also indicates that the frequency at which people run, for example, can significantly be affected by external stimuli like seeing people who are less in shape than we are out running while we're not, females wearing cute clothes and even how and how often we see running-related posts on social media!

Dan Buettner is an author and researcher who works primarily for National Geographic. He has looked deeply into the habits of people who live in the phenomena known as blue zones, places where the average resident lives significantly longer than in other local and regional locales.

Unsurprisingly, Mr. Buettner found that long-lasting, active, strong, and - this last part is the most important of the four by far - positive friendships and relationships are extensively more common in blue zones than elsewhere on planet Earth.

If you didn't already know this, according to the World Health Organization, Japan is home to the world's longest life expectancies for females at a whopping 87 years of age!

Although you just might have already been familiar with the fact that Japan is - for whatever reason - a facilitator of such long lifetimes, it's almost sure that you've never heard of the social group called a Moai.

Moai are groups of five women who stick together for long, long times, typically throughout the entirety of their lives! The friends offer one another monetary assistance if needed, arguably the best perk of life as part of a Japanese moai.

Other types of support that moai members most commonly lend to one another include social support, such as joining their friends for formal date parties so they're not alone, and emotional uplifting during troubling times following, for example, the death of a parent, spouse, girlfriend, boyfriend, family member, or long-term pet.

The positivity shared within Japanese moai and to their members' immediate and extended families is exceptional. Take, for example, the common occurrence of how moai members will take care of another member's child if it gets sick and the parent-member can't afford to miss work.

Friendships certainly can be infinitely positive for you and your peers, but only if you build them from the ground up with positivity in mind. Assess the positivity level of your current relationships with others using this insightful quiz and adjust your lifestyle from there. May positivity be with you.

Before you even read about blue zones and Japanese moai, you knew all too well that positivity can have profound effects on people's lives. Would you rather be a part of a moai or simply live in a small city that doubles as a blue zone? Pass this insightful article to your friends and ask them what their opinions are.