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The Power Of The Positive
You and me... we can choose to be happy
or not. We can choose to succeed or fail, scald, frown on
or blame others. We can choose to complicate life or simplify
it. There is no doubt the responsibility is ours.
Abraham Lincoln once said, ‘A man is
just about as happy as he makes up his mind to be’ and
Dr Wayne Dyer and Deepak Chopra appear to agree.
Both Dyer and Chopra
say that we have, on average 60,000 to 62,000 thoughts each
day. Around 4,000 of these are positive, the remainder are
negative. This means that, if we want to advance ourselves
or enhance our well-being, the balance between positive and
negative in our lives is most likely tipped in the wrong direction.
In other words we are making up our minds to be unhappy.(Find
out more on this subject here...)
To be happy we have to begin to reverse the cycle. To begin
this we have to look at what we’re doing.
Ghandi once said, ‘Happiness
is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are
in harmony.’ It is simple wisdom from a wise man, but
what will taking his words on board mean?
I think what Ghandi’s
words could mean is that we need to become much more aware
of what we do. Many of the negative thoughts we have don’t
even originate within us, but come to us as a result of what
we do. They enter your mind through outside sources, and we
allow this to happen because we’ve never stopped to
think.
Here are some quick questions
that relate to the power of positive - that will help. Mark
them 1-10, ten being the highest.
1. How positive are the TV
programmes you watch? Do they uplift you, make you laugh or
inspire change?
2. How positive is the news
you watch or read? Is it based on war and scandal or peace,
love and harmony?
3. How positive is your music?
Is it all about break-up, anger and dysfunction or love and
hope?
4. How positive are the movies
you watch? Are they about a better world or about destruction
and violence?
5. How positive are your friends?
Do they moan or look to create change things for the better?
Why are these important questions?
They’re important questions
because we think ‘I want to be happy thoughts’
and perhaps often give off that ’I want to be happy
vibe’ but then we go and contradict what we say and
what we think by what we do. TV, radio, news media, musical
lyrics, movies and friends or family talking about woes all
have a profound influence on how positive we feel. And if
our life isn’t going where we hoped it would, then we
need to change the things that influence our minds.
How?
We can change what influences
us by learning to manage the incoming content to our minds
by our choice. Turn on the TV now. Watch it for 2 minutes
and decide if watching this TV programme will help you achieve
anything one of those dreams you keep locked away in the back
of your mind. Pick up a newspaper, hold it by your heart and
ask, Will I feel uplifted if I read this? Ask: Is this music
about happiness or sadness?
Once we become more aware
of what were taking in we have the power to choose. We can
choose a positive news publication to read, change our internet
default setting to a site that uplifts, encourages and empowers,
tune into a radio station which will help us be more, find
positive books and movies to watch… The list goes on.
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