Question

• Make a list of at least three ways you can influence clients to associate positive emotions with health promotion behavior.
• Explain the reasons for choosing these methods.

Answer 1

There are positive emotions and negative emotions that influence our behavior in our day to day life that is Pleasurable experience are caused by the positive emotions whereas Unpleasant emotions are building up in an individual and react to an event or person and pleasurable experiences are not caused by the negative emotions.

Some Positive emotions are love, joy,   happiness, contentment, amusement, serenity. On the other hand, some negative emotions are angry, depression, sad, fear, being alone

Three ways to influence positive emotions

In everyday life, people are encountering different situations and different person. Some methods helps the person to adopt to today changed situations.

There are the ways to improve the positive emotions in order to bring happiness in lives of client

1. The imagined self technique :

             This method helps the people to imagine self and feel their joy and able to achieve the goal which the client want to achieve in their life and get a pleasure from that.

   

Steps of imagine technique

                Ask the client to feel the experience in the future that is achievement of life and share the experience with all people

            Imagine the experiences the achievement and struggling of present and feel the proud of achievement

            Immerse in the imagine world and feel the positive emotion

Ask the client the about the experiences and methods to achieve them in the future

Benefit self positive imagine technique

· It help the individual to develop the regulate the behavior. It helps the individual to set himself according to the standards

· It helps to develop confidence

· It helps to form the honest relationship with others

· It helps to achieve the goal

· It helps the individual to adopt to different situation and different life

· It helps the individual to develop positive and happy life

· It helps to develop the dedication and determination

2. Positive affirmation is the statement and can be done by an individual himself and practice to say daily and this method push the individual to positivity. Affirmation in positive talking can help the individual redirect the minds to focus on the positive and bring the positivity in his life

      Some of the positive affirmation are all is fine, everything is good for us, I love my body and mind

Benefits of selecting positive affirmations

· It helps to rethink the our thinking and helps to think and behave differently

· It helps to improve physical exercise and improve the outlook experiences

· It helps build up the confidence and decrease the low self esteem

· It helps to achieve the goal

· It helps to remove the bad habits from the client

· It helps to control the negative emotions such as fear, frustration, sad

· It can be done by individual alone to bring positive emotions

3. Forgiveness exercise: it can be followed by the daily practice and make in his personality. This helps to relieve anger and focus on life

Steps to follow the forgiveness exercise

Ask the client to write the names of all the persons who hurt the individual in a piece of paper and next to each person, explain the experiences that causes hurt and how it affected client

Ask to client to relax and take a deep breath for 2 minutes and then say the forgive and open the eyes and ask the client to write down forgive and free

Benefits of the forgiveness:

· It helps to bring physical and mental health behavior by removing the guilty experience

· It helps to see the positive qualities in the person rather than negative qualities in self and other

· It helps to bring personal power

· It can be done individual himself

· It helps to restore relationship

· It helps to develop spirituality and reduce resentment

· It helps to reduce the depressive symptoms and develop a quality of life

Importance of these methods:

These methods can be done by individual and practice it everyday situations. It helps the confidence and builds social relationship with others. Most of the negative emotions are reduced and helps to develop the confidence and achieve the goal     

Achievement of the goal: it helps the person the focus on the goal and reduce the negative emotions

Social relationship: it helps to reduce anger on the other people and build a social relationship with other people

Confidence: self imaging technique helps to develop the confidence and focus on the goal and set personal behavioral change and bring pleasure in the life

self esteem: it helps to increase self esteem by imaging self and positive affirmation. it helps to remove false behaviour

physical and mental health: it helps to bring up the physical and mental health by selecting positive attitude towards the life