Positive Thinking

We all have an inkling of what positive thinking is and may practice it. For those wishing to know of how they may more effectively put this into practice, here are some useful tips/guidelines. (From the online magazine www.positivehealth.com)

Please share your ideas, feedback and experiences.

"Studies have proved that positive attitude can bring amazing results. Medical science too firmly believes that even when a patient is suffering from chronic physical or mental illness including cancer, if takes treatment with positive attitude and with zest for living, can get amazing results. Ancient healing treatments through Ayurvedic and Yoga too emphasize on meditation and regular prayers that customarily develop positive thinking. Now that we have understood the need and importance of positive thinking, the following are a few self help skills to develop positive thinking;

Love thy own self, accept yourself with all your abilities, qualities and of course your drawbacks : Do not compare yourself with others and unnecessarily hurt yourself and infuse negative thoughts, as no two persons are alike. It is best to remain focused and polish your abilities and skills and also identify your drawbacks and improve upon them;

Count your blessings and not your foes: Stop complaining of what you were not blessed with; instead, thank God for what all God blessed you with - which others perhaps are not blessed with;

Every unfortunate incident happening and event send a message: Do not feel low on facing unfortunate happening, as there are encoded messages in all unfortunate incidents. Intelligent and wise people try to decipher the message and make their life better and contributively;

Don't expect from others but come up to other's expectations: Non-complaining attitude goes a long way in shaping the right kind of personality. This happens, when you stop expecting from others. Fulfilling other's wishes, desires, caring for other's happiness develops positivity in you. There is nothing like coming to others expectations;

Remember every cloud has a silver lining; no situation of life remains forever; circumstances would certainly change. A bright sunny day follows a dark stormy night. So, in most critical situations and through tough testing times remain composed and develop the quality of perseverance;

Turn your wounds into wisdom; no one is happy in this materialistic world. We all have grudges against something or the other. World is full of 'n' number of suffers and life is full of endless sufferings. It is we ourselves, who can make our life worth living through right thinking, right conduct , right perception about our own self and about others. Have a sensible, intelligible attitude towards all people and all situations you come across in life;

Groom yourself after identifying you capabilities: forget about what you cannot do. Concentrate on what you can. Identify all hidden talents of yourself. Nothing goes to waste; there are buyers of everything. It is up to you how you put forth your qualities, capacities and abilities;

Learn to live and not be an evil: we all are blessed to be human beings, the most rational, intelligent and sophisticated creature on this earth. Make use of this life the fullest, explore yourself, introspect yourself and don't let it go waste by cursing others and by making life hell for yourself and others;

Do one good deed a day no matter small or big: this exercise is very satisfying and gives you a feeling that your life is worth living and blessings from others that you get as a reward from both known and unknown people cannot be expressed in words. All the blessings are a tonic for living; they energize you and infuse positivity in you;

Don’t be envious, be a good appreciator, if not at least be a learner: don’t envy others over their achievement, learn from them, appreciate them and try to follow their foot-steps. Being jealous or envious actually happen to be great obstacles in progress and development;

Develop hobbies : as the saying goes : Empty mind is a devil's workshop, therefore involve yourself in some interesting hobbies like reading, writing, gardening, cooking etc, this would make you free of ill-will of others and about your own self . Making constructive use of the time is one of the surest way to get rid of negativities of all kinds;

Last but not the least. Remember God for everything you do in your life: God the master, the creator , the forgiver, the rescuer is above everything and above all. Praying regularly makes one humanitarian and compassionate in approach." (Gurdeep Kaur)

Gurdeep Kaur MPhil (Political- Science), is lecturing undergraduate students at College Of Commerce, University of Delhi. Her work aims to increase understanding on general and social issues in order to improve upon the quality of life.

[Belle]

Thank you Amy. I'm in a job hunting process and had a meeting with my careers support person - she is marvellous - and really gets me. Anyway, she gave me a few turnaround thoughts in positive thinking about interviews. The mind is a powerful force, it feels like hard work at the mo as it is a new muscle I am working but it will get there.

[that's the first step in positive thinking]

How positive thinking rewires your brain

http://www.stevenaitchison.co.uk/blo...es-your-brain/

For correct decision making, you must cultivate discipline for ‘mind stilling’ concentration for perfection. Life is neither a midsummer night’s dream nor a comedy of errors greet it with smile live with grace. Believe in yourself! If don’t, who else .Columbus discovered new world had no map or charts. Einstein developed theory of relatively had no computers. Uncanny ability to consciously access parts of your brain that you haven’t been able to all your life.

[MIND POWER]

I used to always carry coins, and give it to the homeless at my discretion.

You get some deceivers, that is why i said..."My Discretion".

I shall start to carry change once again, because i have walked past some people and reach onto my pocket! and been frustrated that i had no change on me.

da mind buddy must've pulled up notes that tuck up
as silly dropping. when we stretch out
ourself within it's when we overcome. when stuff's
a stranger it's when those notes start flipping.

yes, continue'd eclipse'd of like jesus is on your side rooting
for you is yourself above a lego'd~like set piece everything we go ourselfs. pray, tell.

[CrystalKitty777]

I love everyone!

[Dargor]

As someone who struggles with a lot of things, I find many of what I've seen written here to be genuinely false. Most of those things like ''count your blessings'' is easy to say for those who have no Idea what others have been through. Not to sound like a negative douche, but I have no idea why so many people believe that a positive attitude is a magic cure to everything. Because simply put, it is NOT. I've known about a certain someone in my life with a positive attidude, yet still lost the battle to cancer anyway. I have tried at some instances to maintain a positive attitude, yet it got me nowhere. Also, how are we not supposed to be envious? The only thing I've learned from people who achieved a lot of things is that most of the times they take it for granted or don't deserve such achievements.

My apologies for replying in a dead thread, but I just found this while scrolling through the forum and caught my attention.

[Clover]

Originally Posted by SlayerOfLight

As someone who struggles with a lot of things, I find many of what I've seen written here to be genuinely false. Most of those things like ''count your blessings'' is easy to say for those who have no Idea what others have been through. Not to sound like a negative douche, but I have no idea why so many people believe that a positive attitude is a magic cure to everything. Because simply put, it is NOT. I've known about a certain someone in my life with a positive attidude, yet still lost the battle to cancer anyway. I have tried at some instances to maintain a positive attitude, yet it got me nowhere. Also, how are we not supposed to be envious? The only thing I've learned from people who achieved a lot of things is that most of the times they take it for granted or don't deserve such achievements.

My apologies for replying in a dead thread, but I just found this while scrolling through the forum and caught my attention.

I agree to an extent. Personally, I think it healthy to understand our negative or darker sides so we can learn to transmute negative emotions and be more at peace with ourselves, which is the better state to achieve in my opinion; being at peace... don't you think?

Sure, not all content is relate able but if one sentence can inspire someone to do better, and reach for a better feeling, why not? No harm in encouraging others to feel better. Sure beats staying in a rut I know on this is certain, no one wants to be around a dirty diaper ( funky personalitiy). It can be quite contagious

[Dargor]

Originally Posted by Clover

I agree to an extent. Personally, I think it healthy to understand our negative or darker sides so we can learn to transmute negative emotions and be more at peace with ourselves, which is the better state to achieve in my opinion; being at peace... don't you think?

Sure, not all content is relate able but if one sentence can inspire someone to do better, and reach for a better feeling, why not? No harm in encouraging others to feel better. Sure beats staying in a rut I know on this is certain, no one wants to be around a dirty diaper ( funky personalitiy). It can be quite contagious

Well, I personally think it's better to embrace the 'darkness' and harsh reality about how things really are rather than the typical ''it's gonna be alright'' peptalk. Don't get me wrong, I agree there's nothing wrong with encouraging someone to feel better. It all just depends HOW you do that. I'm sure that suggesting someone who lost a lot of people and barely has anyone left to count his/her blessings would do little to no good. Also, when you are giving someone hope and that person ends up with a loss again, imagine how hard of a punch in the face that would be to said person. Best thing in my humble opinion to do is just to remain neutral, neither positive or too negative.

But that's just my opinion though, sorry if I sound somewhat pushy that isn't my intention.