Hello everybody and welcome to the mindful kind.

I'm your host, Rachel Cable, and I'm here to share insights into my mindfulness journey

and inspire you to create your own.

Each week, this podcast will bring fresh and exciting news about mindfulness,

from my personal experiences to useful tools and different

mindful techniques.

Hello and a huge welcome to episode 113 of the Mindful Kind podcast and the second episode in my new

miniseries about Outlooks on Life. I'm super excited to be talking about pessimism in this episode,

including the pros and cons, situations where it can be particularly useful and a great

meditation practice for pessimistic people. Now, if you haven't already heard

episode one of this mini-series, you might like to return to episode 112 about realism and check

it out. Otherwise, let's just jump in. Pessimism has been defined as a tendency to believe that

the worst will happen and pessimistic people might be more likely to anticipate

that they will have negative experiences. Before I start talking about some of the pros and cons of

pessimism, I wanted to talk about why it's important. While there are different outlooks on life,

in this series I'm sharing my thoughts on three of them. In the first episode I talked about realism,

this episode as he knows about pessimism, and you may be able to guess that the third episode

will be about optimism. Even though I talk about them separately, many of us will experience

all three outlooks, even when we have a preference for one. For example, in the last episode, I shared how my

partner is often realistic. But that doesn't mean he will never be optimistic or pessimistic. He

just has a tendency to be more realistic most of the time. Something else which I think is important

to mention is that none of these outlooks are wrong or bad.

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