Power of positive thinking
June 24, 2008
I am back to the blogging world after a long break and this time I want to write about something which will enhance the way we are living our lives. I will start off by posting an article which had come in The Hindu newspaper which was written by Padma. Here it goes ……..
It has been estimated that we think more than 50.000 thoughts everyday, more than half of which are negative. Sometimes you have to do a mental spring-clean to get rid of the negative `garbage’ that otherwise becomes ingrained. `Positive thinking’ a phrase made famous in the 1952 bestseller.
The Powers of Positive Thinking, is what its all about. Stopping self-destructive thoughts is like stopping any other bad habit–it takes time and effort. As Norman Vincent Peale wrote, it is all about belief in oneself and faith in God.
You are what you think
We control our feelings and thoughts both consciously and subconsciously. It is within us to be positive or negative, lively or morose. One of the most effective ways to come out on top is by the affirmation of all that is positive. Affirmations are positive statements about yourself that you repeat over and over until they’re programmed into your subconscious.
If we think unhappy thoughts, it will be impossible to feel either positive or be happy. As Marcus Aurelius said, “A man’s life is what his thoughts make of it.
You feel what you want
As thinking is an unconscious habit, good habits, such as talking positively to yourself, focusing on positive thoughts, and being positive with other people, get good, positive results and peace of mind. While no one can be positive all the time, there are ways to develop a positive “mind set” so that positive thinking becomes a habit.
Why worry
Like positive thinking, worrying is a habit- albeit a bad one. Constant worrying is destructive and self -defeating.
Try to eliminate negative self -talk. It only underlines our poor self-image and makes us lose confidence in ourselves. Catch and kill that negative thought!
The three Cs
Develop a three-pronged approach-Commitment, Control and Challenge. Make a commitment to yourself and to people and things that matter to you. Be enthusiastic and dare to dream!
Keep your mind focused and set your goals and priorities. Take everything in your stride –success and heartbreak.
Be courageous. Do not be afraid of change .Do your best and have no regrets. See learning and change as opportunities and never let go of your optimism.
Boost the positive and you will find that you are a success during good times, and a survivor during the hard!
How many of us have realised that being positive or negative is for us to decide? for some one who was a lot of pessimism you will be amazed by the changes that positive thinking has brought into my life. I used to very pessimistic for quite a long time and it used to peg me down a lot and I used to have a feeling of hollowness in me and thats when I decided to try the positive thinking approach and its worked wonders for me. All those feeling of hollowness has vanished and the positive energy has spread to people whom I meet which I think is the best part of being a positive thinker and trust me negativity is strictly not liked by people when you are talking with them. I still remember how people used to hate bumping into me just because they did not want to get any negative vibes.
Like the quthor has mentioned we control our thoughts so being positive or negative is totally up to us. So lets all try the poitive way after all there is no harm in trying if it can change the way we live and make the world a better place.
June 24, 2008 at 10:36 am
good article! and good that u could implement the change u realized was necessary.
June 24, 2008 at 2:49 pm
One statement that stands out is – ‘Boost the positive and you will find that you are a success during good times, and a survivor during the hard!’
very true! as long as we believe in the positive process everything else around us may let us down…but we will never let ourselves down.A composure to accept defeat and humiliation during the bad times with positive thoughts eventually leads to accepting success as just something that had to come and will help us keep grounded. As someone who has been adapting this method for the past few weeks its surely has benefited me in many ways most importantly its been my best friend during the bad times. I am no more a loner i am surrounded by positive things Lots of it through different means.
June 24, 2008 at 8:51 pm
It’s all in your mind.
We usually under estimate the extent to which negative thoughts affect us.
Apart from the obvious things like not having confidence in ourselves, low self esteem there are several other bad things it brings. Like losing trust in people we are very close to, not trusting people when they try to tell us some positive things or try to boost our morale. Shunning away advice by people and isolating from people because we think they ‘don’t understand’ what we are ‘going through’ or how ‘miserable’ we are.
So it becomes a lot difficult for others to help us out of this and we ourselves have to get ourselves out of it.
We don’t realise how bad negative thoughts are unless we have gone through it and more importantly come out of it.
June 25, 2008 at 10:02 pm
What an excellent overview of affirmations!
Discovering the power of affirmations for personal change is like finding diamonds in a field. The wonderful thing about them is that once they’ve sunk into your subconscious – they become permanent.
June 29, 2008 at 8:34 pm
good article
July 7, 2008 at 6:55 pm
excellent article. By the way it seems you have a tendency to blog on some psychological issues. Any specific reason? And nice of you to quote that article from The Hindu.