Celia Antonini: Why our brain tends to be negative

Psychologist Celia Antonini explains why we usually tend to give more room and space to negative thoughts rather than positive and good ones.

Today we are going to talk about a basic mechanism that

our brain has and that affects our lives.

Our brain tends to be negative.

Thanks to that, humans have survived for
thousands of years.

What does our brain do? it naturally
goes for the negative and

looks for any type of threat it can find and

starts looking for

any dangerous situation that may occur.

It's worried for all the bad things that could
happen to us

Our brain is truly a survival machine.

Psychologist Rick Hanson says:

"The brain is like Velcro for negative experiences,
but Teflon for positive ones".

This explains why it's so easy for us to find
negativity before positivity and

why we give too much attention and room to
fear and concern.

Studies suggest that if you say one negative thing
to your couple,

you'll need to say 5 positive things to
counter the negative effect.

Our brain works for our survival.
To get us through the day. It is not

prepared and it is not meant to care
for our happiness.

That is up to us.

If we both do our jobs right, we will not
only get through the day alive,

but happy as well.