Self-Care With Shaki

Negative thinking creates an unfair environment. It contributes to depression, anxiety, and other mental and physical health issues. Our thoughts are very subtle and unconscious most of the time yet it has an extreme power to control our whole life. Since our thoughts make and break us, it is important to understand and learn how to think in the right way to be happy and peaceful in life. Below are the 5 tips that you can inculcate to change your negative thought pattern: 1. Identifying your thinking pattern The first step to change your negative thinking is to identify your thinking pattern. For example, if you tend to view yourself as a total failure because of failing in one single interview then you are "overgeneralizing" yourself. Or, if you are someone who thinks that 'Success only lies in perfection. And the rest is considered as a failure' then you are thinking in terms of "black and white". In the same way, there are many t...

In today's era of social media, criticism, and bullying has become a top-notch issue. People have also become very sensitive to everything that is being said on social media. A single negative comment on your Instagram post would drain your whole energy for the day. Negative criticism will occupy the whole mind and people keep ruminating it over and over. Our mental health is damaged to a great extent that people even commit suicide for negative criticisms. Nowadays, it is all about pleasing people. We curl back if someone judges us or criticizes us. Our mental health is on stake because we are not taught to handle simple things like criticism. Basically, there are two types of criticisms - Constructive and destructive. Constructive criticism is something that encourages us to do better, it points out our mistakes so that we can correct them. Whereas, Negative criticism is something that tears us apart. For example, let's say you are posting a vid...