positive thinking is a mind frame which expects happiness, joy, health and a successful outcome of every situation. When this belief is so powerful, this expectation is always reached by that individual. With positive thinking many people fear this because they dont want to build themselves up for a big win, only to find that they sink to a greater low, when they lose. This attitude may be influenced by past experience, where a person may have taken many knocks in their lifetime i.e. lose of job, failed relationships or unsuccessful marriages. Therefore, these people have the tendency to always fear the worst outcome of every situation. Every time this negative cycle is reinforced, expectations are lowered and negative outcomes are generated. But we can reverse negative thinking by doing the following;

To live with a positive attitude is the only way to live in this world. What did negativity ever accomplish other than bad feelings? Life is what you make it, and the results that you get and live with are directly linked to your thoughts, attitudes and actions, so it makes sense to focus on every good thing and live in an attitude of appreciation! Always searching for the positive will allow you energy, happiness, inspiration and a peaceful mind. By contrast a negative attitude will automatically set limitations because you are setting the precedent for failure. Your feelings about yourself, if you expect people to judge you and see your frailties you will have a constant feeling of guilt, a degree of depression and low self-esteem. Whereas if you adopt the attitude that you are who you are, and thats okay, no matter what anybody thinks; you need to accept yourself unconditionally and youll find the World will too. You get what you expect. Negativity usually develops unconsciously, which comes from a mixture of different sources, including disappointments from childhood, people in your life who all influence you, whether you realise it or not. By your career satisfaction, health, finances, relationships and your internal reactions to all of these things. Thoughts clog and busy the mind, which tend to weigh you down, so practicing methods which will allow you to clear your head, let go of these thoughts and ultimately leave your mindset unaffected. Some of these methods include taking a walk in nature, focusing all your thoughts on all the things that you appreciate in your life. Things you have to look forward to, things which bring you joy, people you love. Notice the nature around you, smile and breathe deeply, physically let all those heavy thoughts holding dead weight go. Youll return so much more relaxed, lighter and peaceful. Write down at least 10 things in your life you are grateful for, 10 people you love and their best attributes that bring you joy, what you most appreciate about them. Write down 10 things you have to look forward to within the next 6 months; if you dont have any thats a big reason for your mood so go and get some things to look forward to organised! Write down 10 things that you want to accomplish within the next 12 months. You get the picture, focus on everything good that will shift your paradigm. Then read it all back to yourself, say it out loud to hear the words, and move your body while you do it. One of the biggest ways to create a shift is to change your physiology; read any Anthony Robbins book or listen to any of his audios, he really explains the power of the relationship between the way you hold yourself, move your body and speak, to your moods and psychology. Meditate and visualize the good coming into your life. Meditation increases the seratonin levels in your body, which is in essence the peace hormone which creates relaxation, joy and healing. It gives you perspective and a distance from your problem, giving you a feeling of detachment- see my other articles for more on meditation. Meditation has been proven time and again to create positive shifts in your life, bringing about profound changes, so long as you are willing to accept the power of meditation. Start looking for the good in people and stop looking reasons to be offended. Ignore their frailties, because thats just a projection of your feelings about your own frailties. We are, after all, only human and by nature human beings arent perfect. Focusing on the good in all people, and the goodness behind their intentions will create so much forgiveness, and allow you to see past the surface, forgive mistakes and be so much more accepting. When someone would ordinarily irritate you, or you receive aggression from another person, dont retaliate, move aside and let their aggression continue past you and respond with tolerance. This, for your benefit, means that nobody has the power to control or dictate your mood anymore, because no matter how foolish somebody appears to be acting, you will be unaffected because you raise your consciousness above something to trivial. You will find that people will be more attracted to you behave in this way, because you will have the energy of somebody they feel safe and open with, they will feel the acceptance and non-judgement from you, which is a very safe feeling for another person to pick up from other person, they will sense your easy heart. As a for instance you can feel when a negative, aggressive person enters the room, they have an energy you can just sense, they give off a vibration of tension, making everybody in their vicinity feel uncomfortable, on guard and defensive. It can sap the energy out of a room, and you just want to get away from them! These toxic energy field that people carry, and we unconsciously feel, and infectious, and if youre around someone like that long enough, it will affect you. Where as when youre around someone bursting with happiness, love, excitement, acceptance, charisma and patience, it makes you feel peaceful and happy, and like osmosis you start feeling similar to them. Which person do you decide to be?! If youre in a situation youre not entirely happy about, put humour into it, dont allow yourself to get wound up, because anger wont solve the situation. Detach yourself from it and see it with humour, which will make the situation seem smaller and it will take less of a hold on you. You will only add to the toxicity by indulging in your frustration, but take the light hearted road and you become gentle and much more resilient and patient, which has much more strength of character than reacting in the moment. You cant necessarily change the situation in that moment, but you can change your reaction. Humour gives you objectivity and distance, and the situation will seem like a much smaller deal. If you can apply this to as many situations as possible it will keep you calm and detached and you will be able to find another way around it, rather than letting it stop you in your tracks. Adopt the mindset that there is always another way. The struggle is only as much as you want to make it, it just takes a little more courage and will, but it can and will transform your life. You must have belief in your own abilities. Do you have any goals/ ambitions/ dreams or talents that deep down you want to pursue? Whats holding you back? Feelings of guilt? Feelings that youre not good enough? Worrying that people will judge you? Youre scared? Etc, etc, etc. These are all beliefs that you created and allowed to continue. Theyre totally made up, but they become self-fulfilling prophecies. You need to ask yourself whether theyre really worth holding onto? Forget all those limiting beliefs that are holding you back because theyre not only creating beliefs about yourself which make you feel less worthy than you are, under-confident, etc, but theyre also stopping you from reaching your full potential, whatever that is in your heart. Stop letting false beliefs hold you back! You never know when youre time to go is, and there is nothing you will regret more than, as Wayne Dyer puts it so beautifully, dying with your music still inside of you. Whatever your desires are they are totally unique to you and it is your birth-right to go and see them fulfilled, freely, to the best of your ability. Its up to you whether you will rise above the opinion of others and the terror barrier which stands between you and your victory. Can you crash through it and go and do it anyway? Dont cheat yourself out of your happiness because youre convincing yourself that you cant, or you shouldnt for whatever reason. Live everyday like theres no tomorrow and feel good about it. There is so much pleasure to be had from controlling your own life, directing every decision and plan freely with nothing holding you back. This freedom will give you so much satisfaction, which will bring you more peace and happiness, increasing your quality of life, and quality of life is what we all want, above everything. Allowing yourself to stay stuck whatever rut you may be in is only going to keep bringing you more of what you are experiencing now, it wont fix itself. Be brave and take the leap! Whatever it is for you, you know deep down what it is. No more excuses, go and live your life the way it was intended!

Did you disappoint your parents when you failed your grades? Did they say hurtful things in the heat of the moment that have stayed in your head? Quite often, negative thinking results from messages we received when we were young. Were you bullied at school? Even a friend's childish throwaway comment can lead to years of negative thinking when these thoughts become stored in your subconscious.

Are you unemployed? Do you have a disability? Are you gay? Prejudice and stigma can have a devastating effect on your confidence. The media are often to blame for self-doubt and feelings of worthlessness. The size zero brigade and perfect images of movie icons and rock stars can leave anyone feeling inadequate.

Once learnt, you may repeat these messages endlessly to yourself until they become beliefs, particularly when life is difficult for one reason or another.

You surely have heard about “positive thinking“, but why bother? Is there any reason you should make the effort to retain only positive thoughts? This article shares some ideas why you may in fact want to make this effort.

Higher Productivity

Maintaining a positive attitude may lead to higher productivity, whether in your career or personal life. When you are negative, you tend to give up more easily, get frustrated, get easily distracted, and drag your feet. A simple thing such as how you think can make a world of difference. W. Clement Stone spoke of this when he said “There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude.The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.”. Whether you want higher productivity is up to you, however consider the cause and effect of your attitude. Zig Ziglar also spoke of this when he said “positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.”.

Life is beyond positive thinking for positive thinking sake.It is short, so enjoy life for every second that you live, no matter what negativity is going on around you, wars, famine, the economy are outside of your direct control so why let them prevent you from improving your future and enjoying life at this precise moment. If you cannot be happy now and enjoy life, when can you be happy? Live life by the second that is your NOW!

Life is beyond positive thinking for positive thinking sake. Do you find yourself looking to the future and hoping that it will be a better life than your past?

Are you like the majority of people living today longing for their future, their retirement; getting a better job; earning more money. While they should enjoy life, they are prepared to postpone their happiness waiting for some future goal to come about.

At first glance, it would seem that positive thinking and Attention
Deficit Disorder (ADD) have nothing to do with one another. But many of
us with ADD develop negative thinking patterns because we become
frustrated by our challenges and frequent feelings of being
overwhelmed. This negative outlook then makes it even harder for us to
manage those challenges and move forward.

At first glance, it would seem that positive thinking and Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) have nothing to do with one another. But many of us with ADD develop negative thinking patterns because we become frustrated by our challenges and frequent feelings of being overwhelmed. This negative outlook then makes it even harder for us to manage those challenges and move forward.

Practicing positive thinking allows people with ADD to focus on our strengths and accomplishments, which increases happiness and motivation. This, in turn, allows us to spend more time making progress, and less time feeling down and stuck. The following tips provide practical suggestions that you can use to help you shift into more positive thinking patterns:

Life is hard. It is possible to be happy through denying reality for a
while. But to be lucidly happy is to be aware of all that is, including
the cruelties and evil of life yet still appreciating that which is
enjoyable and finding the positive in that which is not.

Life is hard. It is possible to be happy through denying reality for a while. But to be lucidly happy is to be aware of all that is, including the cruelties and evil of life yet still appreciating that which is enjoyable and finding the positive in that which is not.

Lucid happiness is NOT passive. Lucid happiness is NOT a state of effortless nirvana. Lucid happiness is a choice, an act of will. Lucid happiness does NOT happen to you, it’s something that you decide you want to experience and then you go about creating it.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.’ This quote, from Kierkegaard, the deeply spiritual thinker and writer of the 1800s, demands our attention, and an answer. Are we truly interested in changing our lives, do we really want to know what could be accomplished by a person directly plugged into universal power?

Jesus asked a similar question at the healing pools in Bethesda, in Jerusalem, of a man who had been ill for 38 years. Do you want to be well?’, to which the man explained he had no one to help him. Get up and walk.’ said Jesus, and the man was healed. Jesus didn’t ask the man if he was tired of being frail, ill, unable to provide for himself. He asked if the man wanted to be well! Do you see the vital, life changing difference here? Do you realize that a thought, once conceived, becomes a real and living thing? Stop saying you are tired of being sick, poor, lonely, and start saying what you want to be!! Notice also, the sick man had to admit he desired healing, he had to act on the command to get up and walk, and he had to believe he had been healed.

When I hear the positive thinking gurus – many of whom I hold in high esteem – speak on their topic, they often ignore a fundamental component of positive, empowered thinking. That component is freedom. Sometimes, in the rush to tie positive thinking to tangible benefits, they can sound like the NASA administrator looking for congressional funding for some program. They promise health, wealth, and happiness in return for your efforts.

The result of positive, empowered thinking might, indeed, be that you are healthier, happier, or wealthier, but the real benefit is that you are a free, empowered person.

Has it ever occurred to you that positive thinking is a freedom issue? What could be more freeing than the ability to command your own thought processes and use them to build the life you want? The power to think for oneself has been among the fundamental battles of humankind from the beginning. Since time immemorial rulers, religious bodies, or “the group” have sought to limit the power of the individual to think his or her own thoughts.

Life is about, Love, Inspiration, Faith and Endeavour.

The Inspiration is our ideas and the Endeavour is the effort that we put in, to make those ideas happen, but for them to be successful we have to build our lives on the strong foundations, of Love and Faith.

If we have Love all around us from our parents, our family and friends we are cocooned in a feeling of protection, but that is only half the story, if we have Faith in the people around us, and, or a Faith in spiritual terms, then we feel trust, which gives us a sense of security and completes the strength of the foundations.

When we first start out in this world we have no fears, we are innocent to our surroundings and have no idea what it means to be negative. All that we learn will come from our experiences and our attitude from this early beginning is one of being positive.