As you read what I have to share today you may find yourself thinking: this is just way too simple. And yet, I´ve repeatedly practiced each one of these strategies in my life and found them to be not just easy but also highly effective!
I´m pretty sure the whole concept of positive thinking as a doorway to greater happiness, health and prosperity isn´t new to you. In fact, you may believe in it whole-heartedly - well, as long as things are going well in your life, at least.
If you´re anything like me, holding on to a positive mindset when your world is threatening to fall apart may not be nearly as easy to do.
Still, the self-help gurus are right about one thing. Your thoughts define your actions and your actions define your life. That´s why
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When you do, you´ll not only begin to feel happier and more confident, you´ll feel a greater sense of personal power as well.
#3) Think "Brilliantly" -
If you´re serious about turning your life around, then thinking positive thoughts - or thinking brilliantly, as I like to call it - is definitely the first step. But for brilliant thinking to make a real difference in your life, you will want to learn from your negative thoughts as well.
First it´s important to understand that ignoring negative thoughts won´t make them just go disappear. Instead, try listening to that negative voice inside you head to see if there is some lesson it´s trying to teach you. Then take the thought and put a positive spin on it for future reference.
Here´s an example; if someone treats you badly and your first reaction is to lash out with an equally negative response, stop for a moment and ask yourself: What else could be behind this?
Sure, maybe that person doesn´t like you. But it could also be that they have some major problems you know nothing about.
Do you see how trying to be helpful instead of berating the other person can actually change how you see the entire
Cognitive-behavioral therapy can help you notice the discouraging thoughts that make you feel bad. These thoughts are sometimes called irrational or automatic thoughts. Using Cognitive-behavioral therapy you can learn to stop these thoughts and replace them with helpful thoughts. Positive thinking, or healthy thinking, is a way to help you stay well or cope with a health problem by changing how you think. Its based on research that shows that you can change how you think. And how you think affects how you feel. If you think in a positive way, you may be more able to care for yourself and handle lifes challenges. You will feel better. And you may be more able to avoid or cope with stress, and depression.
Looking on the "brighter side" of things encourages positive attitudes as well as positive behavior. Shay Carl is a YouTube personality whom I've watched constantly for self motivation, he turned his life around through making the personal choice to wake up everyday and smile, and to look at himself in the mirror and flaunt his features instead of being ashamed to take his shirt off at the beach. At age 25 he weighed 350 pounds. Everyday he looked at himself with shame and disgust, he refused to allow positivity into his life because he believed there was nothing positive about himself that needed praise. One day he decided to stop the pity and to be happy even when he didn't want to, even when life would through massive curve balls at him, he was optimistic at all costs. He lost 200 pounds and had 5 kids. Carl posted daily videos of his progress in hopes to inspire other to follow in his footsteps. With over 4 million subscribes, he managed to create a unity of positive people with the same hopes as he did; to change their lives simply by choosing happiness. A positive attitude leads to a positive life. There are numerous aspects to being an optimist, and making the personal choice to be happy is only the first step to
There are many different views on positive thinking whether it is to be positive all the time as suggested by the film The Secret, be a realist and don’t be delusional as stated by Barbara Ehrenreich in her speech “How Positive Thinking Undermines America”, or just be somewhere in between such as a person who is optimistic but not to the point where they expect something they want to come out of the blue, they have to work for it.
For example, I attend college and I have to write this essay, struggling to get ideas out of my head. I always tell my parents that school is difficult and I want to quit college. They tell me this isn’t the right way to think of college, of course it will be tough, but it takes you to a better future. Without the knowledge of positive thinking, there would be so much negativity and people struggling to find definite answers to their own questions and concerns.
“Think positive” is a common piece of advice given to people who are thinking negatively. My mom says this when I am feeling down to help me get through the day. “Tuesdays With Morrie” by Mitch Albom is about a the author spending each Tuesday with his dying old college professor. During the book Morrie shares many pieces of advice he calls “aphorisms”. I agree with most of his aphorisms, but I disagree with one of them.
A person’s mind can either be their greatest or worst enemy. Society puts these images and expectations out that make people look at and question their own worth. Often times, negative thoughts can pop into our minds and cause feelings of stress, unhappiness, or
Positive thinking has been discussed by many philosophers, experts and health psychologists. The power of positive thinking can work wonders. It can release your creative potential and put you on the road to success. However, just like visualization, deliberate creators have a complicated definition of positive thinking. Once again, the process involves a positive thinker producing vibrations, which are released into the universe. Done with high emotions and strong belief, the positive thinker is able to produce vibrations that collect to produce positive
Positive thinking alone is not going to effectively help out the world to become better, thus people need to take actual support for the society. To put it differently, being happy for one’s own life is not enough, above all, one should take his or her happiness and use it to inspire others and to give back to the society. Actions that contains positivity can be small, but influential. Namely, it could be a smile; it could be being thankful and thoughtful for others; it could be generously giving and many more. Individual can do small action every single day and the accumulation of it could turn into something bigger and further powerful that one could not imagine. It takes someone to put themselves out there that will be a real
It cannot be stressed enough that to be positive in situations, you need to have a positive view of yourself. Just like happiness, achieving this is not as easy as it seems. “The most important relationship you have is the one with yourself. You have to be feeling good about who you are when you look at yourself in the mirror every morning. You need a clear vision of what you want to achieve and an understanding of yourself. What you’re good at-and what you’re not good at. This self-awareness and sense of what you want to achieve will make you unstoppable” (Blalock, 29-30). I truly believe that if you have this down, you can do anything. This is also important when thinking about strengths and weaknesses. A lot of the time it is easy to spot the things we’re bad at, or qualities we wish we didn’t have. Often times we don’t give ourselves credit for what we are good at. One big take away that Jessica Bacal had after writing her book, was that there are lots of ways to be brave, we just don’t always acknowledge or appreciate them. I think this piece of advice is hugely important. If you’re having a hard time or a bad week, and the only thing you do today is get out of bed, that is still an accomplishment; that is still something to acknowledge and be proud of. If you start acknowledging the little things that you do, and loving those little parts of yourself, ultimately it will be easier to love the whole
When you start to practice positive thinking, you start to send out requests to the universe and yourself to create a life in line with your positive thoughts.
should be prepared to flood your mind with all the positive direction and passion you can. Repeat your affirmations at every opportunity and persist until you
In order to avoid being burned by your own intuition and predictably losing all trust in your gut, you must understand the limits of intuition and when to trust it appropriately. On his podcast Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam explores the concept of automaticity, a psychological term for acting without thought. Though sometimes necessary for self-defense, acting thoughtlessly can go badly and even violently when it involves anger. If a person takes a moment to think before lashing out in anger, they can avoid fights and other bad behavior. According to the principles of cognitive behavioral therapy, each of us can practice new thoughts and patterns of behavior to change bad habits, avoid knee-jerk reactions, and even talk ourselves out of a bout of depression by reminding ourselves that “feelings of sadness can be transient.” However, Vedantam states, “mostly, this kind of therapy takes place one-on-one with a trained expert.” So, reasoning through a thought process with a trained professional can be beneficial, but when left to our own devices, intuition may still be the best
Think of it as taking things for what they are. Accept the negative state instead of
a. Become aware of your dominant thoughts with the purpose of guiding them towards positive thinking. Your dominant thoughts embed themselves in your subconscious to create your beliefs and habits which translate into your actions and therefore create your reality. Give yourself a boost. Regardless of the present circumstances,replace negative thoughts gently and please with uplifting,joyous, laughing, rejoicing thoughts.
In its simplest terms, positive thinking is optimism and negative thinking is pessimism. It is an attitude towards life, yourself and particular predicaments and events in life.