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Positive Thoughts Equal a Positive Attitude
Do you ever
feel like life is not treating you right? Have you considered how great
a role your thinking and attitude play in how life treats you? It is all
about how you perceive your life to be. If you think about it
negatively, your attitude tends to be just as negative. You cannot
expect to have a good attitude when all of your thoughts tell you that
life is hard, no fun, and you feel like your back is against the wall.
I want you
to try this quick experiment so that you can see how your thoughts
really do affect your perceptions of life, as well as your attitude.
Think of your best friend and the unconditional love and support shared
between the two of you. Did you smile without meaning to? Did you
remember a specific time when your friend showed unconditional love and
support for you? Did you notice that your attitude brightened while
thinking about your best friend? Chances are very good that this is the
experience you had by thinking about something positive.
You were
asked to do this quick experiment with positive thinking so that you
could experience for yourself how your thoughts affect your attitude.
While I find articles like this health article informational and useful,
I have always found that they help me even more when I can relate to
them on a personal level like the experiment above, which positive
thinking allowed me to do. I understand what people mean when they say
that positive thoughts equal a positive attitude because I have
experienced that for myself. I hope you have been able to experience
this too.
How do our
thoughts and attitudes play a role in how life treats us? Our thoughts
and attitude determines the way we perceive our life. Negative thoughts
and a negative attitude will cause us to perceive everyday occurrences
negatively. While positive thoughts and a positive attitude will cause
us to perceive everyday occurrences positively. People with negative
perceptions often make mountains out of mole hills so to speak. Small
things become a very big deal and bad things seem to just keep piling up
on the hapless victim to the vengeance of life. You get the idea.
Unbeknownst to them is the very real fact that due to their negativity
they are missing out on the good things, great and small that are trying
to come into their lives.
Through our
attitude we send messages to the people around us, and it is not hard to
pick out the negative thinkers in the crowd because they usually have
sour attitudes and we know one causes the other. Most people do not find
negativity attractive. You can significantly improve your relationships
with positive thoughts and a positive attitude.
If we are
in a negative mode and perceiving our lives in that manner, we are
actually creating an existence wherein we attract negativity to us while
repelling anything positive. When we do this to ourselves we rationalize
that life is just out to get us. We seethe inside as life seems to be
going good for everyone else but us. Life is energy. It is not an entity
with the power to wage a battle against you. Life is comprised of both
good and bad things. The degree to which you will recognize and enjoy
the good and cope with the bad is determined by how you perceive these
things. And your perceptions are shaped by your thoughts and attitude.
In closing
I leave you with this. Indulge in a life of positive thoughts which will
equal a positive attitude and life will be good to you. Instead of
thinking that the grass is greener on the other side, make your grass
the greenest grass that you have ever seen. If you positively believe in
your own success, then you can make it happen. Remember that your
thoughts have power.
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