Tips on how to stay positive right now

Emotions remain high right now for many people as we continue on in a "new normal" that's far from normal.

COME OF THISPANDEMIC...BUT IN TONIGHT'SREBOUND REPORT...NBC 26'S ABIGALEHANKE SHARESSOME WAYS TO STAYPOSITIVE.KIDS ARE BACK INSCHOOL...KINDOF...AND PARENTSARE BACK ATWORK...FOR THEMOST PART...MEANING EMOTIONSARE ONCE AGAIN...ALLOVER THE PLACE.it's okay to not feel okayand to feel a little burnt outand to feel a little stressedand that you're in goodcompanyWHILE RESEARCHHAS FOUND THEPANDEMIC CAUSEDSEVERAL NEGATIVEIMPACTS ON PARENTSEARLIER THIS YEAR,LIKE MORE ANGERANDSADNESS...THEREWAS ALSO, SOMEGOOD NEWS.2.32 I think we mostlyfound emotions beingheightened.

And so, morepositive emotions likegratitude and feeling closeto their childrenAND IT'S A GOODREMINDER AFTERMORE THAN SIXMONTHS INTO THEPANDEMO IC....ASDOCTOR MARGARETKERR WITH U-W-MADISON SAYSFINDING WAYS TOSTRENGTHEN YOURPOSITIVE EMOTIONS,CAN ACTUALLY HELPGET RID OF THENEGATIVE ONES.4.14 Do you have anyadvice for trying to getthose positive emotionsand thoughts in your head.Yeah, that's funny youshould ask I actually dosome research on thisintervention calledsavoring it's a positivepsychology intervention.And there's.

We, there's aversion of it that weresearch called relationalsavoring, and it involvesthinking about a momentof positive connection withyour child or with anotherloved one, and then kindof trying to relive thatexperience and thinkabout all this sensoryaspects that came alongwith it and then all theemotions that came alongwith it and it can allow youto relive thoseExperiences so just sittingdown at the end of the dayand what the good thingthat happened or onepositive interaction that wehad today.

And then sittingwith that for a fewminutes.KERR ALSO SAYSGRATITUDEJOURNALS HAVEPROVEN TO BEHELPFUL...AND YOUCAN TRY WRITINGDOWN THREE THINGSYOU'RE GRATEFULFOR AT THE END OFTHE DAY....AS WELOOK FOR LITTLEREMINDERS TO STAYPOSITIVE IN ANUNCERTAIN TIME.ABIGAIL HANTKE, NBC26KERRADDS THEY'REHOPING TO DO AFOLLOW-UP STUDYSOON... TO SEE HOWPARENT'S EMOTIONSHAVE CHANGED SINCETHE PANDEMICBEGAN.COMI