Art of Positive Thinking Series - Recipe For Positive Thinking
Damaging feelings may be useful in that they frequently have something crucial to tell us. If your brain and heart are sending you alarms, it might be time to re-evaluate a few things and make changes where essential. This is how damaging feelings may really help us grow and start to welcome great things and individuals into our lives again.
Recipe For Positivity
Positive thinking shouldn't be utilized as a "band-aid" for mental wounds. The anguish you feel inside will still be there when the quick fix falls away. When we utilize positive thinking to escape from bad experiences, we miss the chance to bring durable fulfillment into our lives.
For positive thinking to "form," it's got to be true. Meaning, you really trust what you're thinking and stating to yourself.
The key word here is true.
What are the ingredients of true positive thinking?
Self Credit
Composing self-acknowledgments may be an empowering exercise that nurtures true positive thinking and a fit self-image. It's crucial to remember the great things about you and all you accomplish. Observe your gifts, your strengths and achievements.
Delight in how well you've accomplished something - even the small things. For instance, "Today I receipt myself for speaking my belief at the business meeting" or "now I notice myself for emptying the dish washer and folding my wash."
Everyday Gratitude
There is so much great and beautiful inside of us and our lives... and so frequently we decide not to note it. Look around and you'll see that you're encircled by a lot of fantastic things! Give Gratitude to your higher power or Universe for all that's been produced and supplied for you. Give thanks for the skills and gifts that you have. For instance, "now I'm thankful for the crisp air blowing through the trees that cools off the air and brings in refreshment" or "now I value the stranger who smiled at me as we passed one another in the market."
Feel Your Damaging Feelings
When you're truly in the dumps, don't attempt to utilize positive thinking to make the blues disappear. This sort of positive thinking unavoidably leads to more letdowns as it doesn't provide the motivating/fulfilling power required to sustain it!
Rather, embrace how you feel. Find your unmet needs that are producing your feelings. Discover how to meet those needs in empowering ways. Then, compose affirmations about your power, bravery and insights.
Affirmations
These are little, truths about you, your life and the individuals in it based upon real experiences, daily recognitions and gratitude’s. The truth is that you recognize you will be able to achieve anything and manage any life lesson that comes your way. It's simply that occasionally we lose sight of this reality of our own being and require reinforcement.
If you're already writing daily gratitude’s and recognitions, you'll have lots of stuff to produce affirmations. Illustrations: "I'm solid." "I have a lot of supportive relationships." "The higher power supports me.”
