Positive thinking is a mental attitude that admits into the mind thoughts, words and images that are conductive to growth, expansion and success. It is a mental attitude that expects good and favorable results. It brings inner peace, success, improved relationships, better health, happiness and satisfaction. It also helps the daily affairs of life move more smoothly, and makes life look bright and promising.
Understanding positive thinking and self-talk:
Positive thinking doesn't mean that you keep your head in the sand and ignore life's less pleasant situations. Positive thinking just means that you approach the unpleasantness in a more positive and productive way. You think the best is going to happen, not the worst.
Positive thinking often starts with self-talk. Self-talk is the endless stream of unspoken thoughts that run through your head every day. These automatic thoughts can be positive or negative. Some of your self-talk comes from logic and reason. Other self-talk may arise from misconceptions that you create because of lack of information.
If the thoughts that run through your head are mostly negative, your outlook on life is more likely pessimistic. If your thoughts are mostly positive, you're likely an optimist- someone who practices positive thinking.
The health benefits of positive thinking:
Researchers continue to explore the effects of positive thinking and optimism on health. Health benefits that positive thinking may provide include:
* Increased life span
* Lower rates of depression
* Lower levels of distress
* Greater resistance to the common cold
* Better psychological and physical well-being
* Reduced risk of death from cardiovascular disease
* Better coping skills during hardships and times of stress.
It's unclear why people who engage in positive thinking experience these health benefits. One theory is that having a positive outlook enables you to cope better with stressful situations, which reduces the harmful health effects of stress on your body. It's also thought that positive and optimistic people tend to live healthier lifestyles — they get more physical activity, follow a healthier diet, and don't smoke or drink alcohol in excess.
Here are a few actions and tips to help you develop the power of positive thinking:
- Always use only positive words while thinking and while talking. Use words such as, 'I can', 'I am able', 'it is possible', 'it can be done', etc.
- Allow into your awareness only feelings of happiness, strength and success.
- Try to disregard and ignore negative thoughts. Refuse to think such thoughts, and substitute them with constructive happy thoughts.
- In your conversation use words that evoke feelings and mental images of strength, happiness and success.
- Before starting with any plan or action, visualize clearly in your mind its successful outcome. If you visualize with concentration and faith, you will be amazed at the results.
- Watch movies that make you feel happy.
- Minimize the time you listen to the news and read the papers.
- Associate yourself with people who think positively.
- Always sit and walk with your back straight. This will strengthen your confidence and inner strength.
- Walk, swim or engage in some other physical activity. This helps to develop a more positive attitude.
Be Positive, think positive these are just words but play a vital role in our life, Sharing a best saying by Great Man:
- A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. -Herm Albright
- A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. -Winston Churchill
- The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. -Anonymous
- Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results. -Willie
- A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. -Mahatma Gandhi
- Instead of thinking about what you’re missing, try thinking about what you have that everyone else is missing. -Darwin P. Kinsley
- I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today. -William Allen White
- Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. -Zig Ziglar
- If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything. - Malcolm X
- Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous. - Chanakya
Be Focused- Short Motivational Message
An ancient Indian sage was teaching his disciples the art of archery. He put a wooden bird as the target and asked them to aim at the eye of the bird.
The first disciple was asked to describe what he saw. He said, "I see the trees, the branches, the leaves, the sky, the bird and its eye..."
The sage asked this disciple to wait. Then he asked the second disciple the same question and he replied, "I only see the eye of the bird."
The sage said, "Very good, then shoot." The arrow went straight and hit the eye of the bird.
*Moral of the Story*
It is hard to focus and concentrate, but it is a skill that can be learned.
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