My website offers free resources and tools to help its readers live a more hopeful life. First, hope is not Pollyannaish optimism — the assumption that a positive outcome is inevitable. Psychologists tell us hope involves activity, a can-do attitude and a belief that we have a pathway to our desired outcome. Hope is the willpower to change and the way-power to bring about that change.
With teens and with young or middle-aged adults, hope is a bit easier. Researchers examined the impact of hope on nearly 13, people with an average age of They found those with more hope throughout their lives had better physical health, better health behaviors, better social support and a longer life. Hope also led to fewer chronic health problems, less depression, less anxiety and a lower risk of cancer. So if maintaining hope in the long run is so good for us, how do we increase it?
Here are my four suggestions:. Attend a motivational speech — or watch, read or listen to one online, through YouTube, a blog or podcast. That increases hope, although usually the fix is short-lived. How can you build longer-term hope? Regain calm and relax with these activities. Explore lived experiences from other young people across Canada. Learn from real-life youth stories, gain new ideas and ask questions to connect and inspire your own wellness journey. Learn how other people have supported their wellness.
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Here are some things you can do to foster hope in your daily life: Think positive: concentrating on the positive and looking for the good in a situation can help you feel better about things. Look at the big picture: taking a step back from the small stuff to look at the big picture can help you see things in a new way. Putting things in perspective can help you shift your outlook on life. Try to think of things you can do to shape your own future e.
Be inspired: it may be helpful to listen to your favourite music, read an uplifting story or watch an inspirational movie.
This can help you build resilience to tackle whatever the future holds for you. Be patient: everyone has good days and bad days. Try to remember that things can and will get better. It may just take a little time for things to get sorted out. Get involved: lending a hand e. Bad Good. Arrow left icon Back Here are some resources that might help:. Resource Feedback.
You might consider hope a form of wishful thinking, a positive and perhaps naive expectation that everything will turn out OK in the end.
In other words, hopeful people are not like Pollyanna, rather they feel in control of their lives and exhibit a sense of agency in their pursuits — the opposite of feeling helpless. In one study testing an eight-session group-therapy hope intervention, participants who were taught hope-building skills subsequently reported a greater sense of meaning, agentic thinking and self-esteem, and lower levels of anxiety and depression, as compared with a waitlist control group.
They also reported lower levels of anxiety and depression post-treatment. Even in the bleakest of times, hope — of the kind articulated by Snyder — can make a positive difference. Working with parents whose children have life-threatening illnesses, Feudtner has found that, while they all of course wish desperately that their children could be cured, it is those parents high in hope who tend to adjust better to the reality of the situation.
Moreover, Feudtner found that a simple question could help kindle hope in parents. From that initial research on helplessness in the s have sprung decades of findings with a more uplifting message. Circumstances, no matter how bad, do not have to defeat us. You have the capacity to adopt more hopeful patterns of thinking in the face of adversity, and to adjust and pursue your goals, even amid hardship. If you can maintain hope in these ways, it will help you find the courage, strength and resilience to ride out the inevitable storms that life brings.
Ethical living. Sikh ethics sees self-centredness as the source of human evil. Ageing and death. Older people are battling despair, but Erikson offers us hope. Thinking and intelligence. Hope is the antidote to helplessness. How people interpreted the experience — the story they weaved — was the critical missing ingredient Over the next decade, Seligman and his colleagues replicated the learned helplessness findings first in rodents and, later, in human beings.
Hopeful people are not like Pollyanna — they feel in control of their lives and exhibit a sense of agency All of this points to a powerful insight — that instilling or restoring a sense of hope in people might help them build resilience and alleviate their emotional suffering. Email Tweet Share. Depression Goals and motivation Emotion regulation. Ethical living idea Sikh ethics sees self-centredness as the source of human evil by Keshav Singh.
Ageing and death idea Older people are battling despair, but Erikson offers us hope by Jane Adams.
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