Cultivating positive emotions and restructuring negative self-talk with patients

Spring is often a time to renew our inner growth and set an intention to flourish.  Our patients can learn to cultivate their positive emotions and restructure their negative self- talk into more reasonable positive perceptions.  This will help them manage their emotional reactions and serve as a protective factor to stress overload which often results in physical symptoms. A first step might be to clear out old negative thought patterns or narrow mindsets, the weeds of our patient’s mental…