Like with many global awareness campaigners, Global Wellness Day has a theme each year and for 2022, they want you to “Think Magenta.”
The Global Wellness Day website explains that “Think Magenta,” to them, means to think positively — something that can feel increasingly difficult thanks to major tragic events and the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. What Global Wellness Day 2022’s focus on is “adding color” to your thoughts, rather than letting the “dark clouds” settle in.
But don’t mistake this as an endorsement of toxic positivity. “#ThinkMagenta is not about being optimistic,” explains Belgin Askoy, the founder of Global Wellness Day, “it’s about being realistic. Things happen in our lives and we have the choice to call them good or bad things” (via Spa Opportunities). Even during tough moments when we’re feeling shame or failure, Askoy says there’s still something to learn. Being able to reframe bad moments and looking at them from the perspective of what these moments are teaching us is a free, powerful mental health tool, one Aksoy believes is the foundation for total body wellness.
Aksoy isn’t the only person who believes in the power of positive thinking either. According to the Mayo Clinic, positive thinking and approaching problems in a productive way, rather than focusing on the negative, is not just a great way to manage stress but provides physical health benefits as well.
